What can teachers do to support students who miss their grades on GCSE results day? Here’s a checklist of the options you can offer them
Throughout my first decade in teaching, I have seen how increasing pupil exposure to poetry, particularly at KS3, raises performance in English and specifically in pupils’ ability to understand and analyse metaphor, figurative language and subtext with more confidence. But poems can do much more...
Be sure to include soft skills, hard skills and technical skills. Analyse the job description in the job advert and list what skills are needed. Select 3–4 of your skills that match those required for the job and list them in your skills summary as subheadings, e.g. Web Design. Under...
For school-leavers, list your A-levels, naming each subject you studied. GCSEs can also be included if you’ve just left school, just state the number of subjects you did and always name Maths and English specifically as they’re a minimum requirement for many entry-level roles. And for ...
It’s important to note that although most roles that can be done by robotics will involve a redeployment of labour, rather than the total loss of a job. So, for instance, data entry as a role will likely be lost to robotics, but someone will need to analyse the data entered, so...
This series has included some of the biggest names in poetry, from Borges all the way back in 1983, through to such luminaries as Oliver, Heaney, Brooks, Brodsky, Walcott, Ginsberg, Boland, Gluck, Hass, and most recently Elizabeth Alexander. ...
We need higher expectations of boys at GCSE and A-Level, argue teachers Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts on this week’s English podcast30th April 2019, 3:03pm Jamie Thom There’s no doubt that there is an issue with boys in our schools. When the exam results arrive in August, we will ...
For example, the head of Latin at Haileybury delivers the curriculum in that subject to Haileybury Turnford’s Year 7 and Year 8 cohorts. This subject was not previously offered, and these groups of pupils are now planning to sit their Latin GCSE exams early, at the end of Year 9. Scie...