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Friday, 21 February 2025

The New GCSE Photo Card

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 This half term we started working on the Photo Card for the new GCSE. The textbook included it right from the first unit, at least in the a...
Sunday, 12 January 2025

One thing that costs nothing which would revitalise languages in England.

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A sure-fire way, costing no money, to revitalise and reinvigorate take up of MFL at GCSE. Do you see what this is? It's anonymous target...
Saturday, 11 January 2025

The view from the classroom

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 I don't know if it is the time to be going over the old arguments about the proposals for the new GCSE. Especially as we are busy worki...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Omelettes versus Snowballs

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 You will know from other posts, that my favourite metaphor for learning languages is the snowball. And that I have adopted Scott Thornbury...
Thursday, 14 November 2024

Working on the three types of questions for the new GCSE Speaking Exam

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 Year 10 have been working on the three different types of questions for the new Speaking Exam. In this grid, they give 3 different answers ...
Saturday, 9 November 2024

When everything you've told pupils about the new GCSE comes true!

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 This week, everything I have been telling pupils about the new GCSE came true. And in quietly spectacular fashion. I suppose that means I...
Friday, 25 October 2024

Getting started with the new GCSE

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 The first half term with the new GCSE! Wishing maybe I'd brought some books home to illustrate some things in this post. But then again...
Sunday, 6 October 2024

Cognitive Science in Practice

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 In a previous post I wrote about the Cognitive Science ideas that are so current in schools today. I characterised them as being uncontrov...
Thursday, 26 September 2024

Differentiated Dictransalation.

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 Yes. You read that correctly. Today Y11 did Differentiated Dictransalation. The translation was a model text on the topic of Work Experienc...
Sunday, 1 September 2024

Using AI to plan lessons

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The links to AI conversations in this post have gone dead. I think you can still get the general impression from the post. Then maybe try it...