This week we had a teacher training day focused on Ofsted. My academy will definitely be inspected this year, and the odds are it will be af...

This week I had my first official observation. As an NQT, I'm qualified to teach but I'm sort of on probation, so someone in the dep...

I have quite a serious social impairment. All I ever talk about is school. Every facebook status I've made for the last 5 weeks has be...

Lewis Carroll's oeuvre, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland is pretty much my favourite book of all time. Why? Because it's FULL...

We teach pupils that 6/7 is the same as 12/14 is the same as 120000/14000 etc. But is it really? This thought struck me in a faculty meeti...

This week I wanted to put one of my new classes into a seating plan, but I didn't want to do it at the start of the lesson. I had two le...

Every August bank holiday, me and my family take a visit to the Wistow Corn Maze in Leicestershire. It's a huge maze made, humorously, ...