If you've been reading my blog for a while and are a hardcore fan, you will know that one really annoying question that I get asked all ...

I'm about to say something that all teachers are going to hate me for. I think we should abolish the summer holiday. It's m...

September 2017 sees the launch of the new Maths A Level course. All the other A Level courses changed a year or two ago, but the Maths chang...

After school today we had the first round of this year's 26 leaving speeches. They were entertaining as usual, and mercifully short, and...

I tried to write a blog that has nothing to do with chess but I did not succeed.  I'm an emotional person. I cry after bad lessons whe...

This week I've been thinking a lot about resilience. It's become a very trendy word for teaching and learning experts to throw aroun...

As teachers, we work so hard to prepare our students for their exams and we put in a lot of time and effort to make sure they get into a goo...