I awoke on Friday morning to a blanket of snow, and in the hotel next door, so did colleagues from Romania, Italy, Denmark, Scotland, Portugal, Germany, Poland...I’ve probably forgotten some. We were all staying in Nordwijk, in the Netherlands, for a two-day Cansat workshop, at the European Space Agency (ESA).

Cansats are pretty much what it says on the tin. In fact, they are satellites in… Read more

As a teacher I remember this time of year as being shall we say, a little stressful; SATS? Open Evening? Ofsted? No, none of these events in a teacher’s life will ever come close to the stress that is The Nativity Play!

It started mid-November with a few carols being sung, then the main parts were cast, making sure that each child has a different role to previous years and that you haven’t… Read more

I once had an email asking whether a student had any outstanding work. When he did give his work in it was always very good, some was outstanding. However, he only did homework he found interesting and of some value, ignoring homework he felt was trivial and boring. I had gaps in my mark book against his name. He had some outstanding work.

I recently read OFSTED’s new subject-specific criteria… Read more