Children get a great deal from novels, even challenging Victorian novels. The great themes and rich language are wonderful. And … More
Category: secondary science
Ready for Lift Off – This Week We Wrote About Rockets
To launch Autumn Term 2014, we took 50 year 6 children to Cambridge to build and test rockets at Sidney Sussex … More
But, So, However, Therefore and Furthermore
And, But, So, However, Therefore and Furthermore. If I hadn’t made the move from secondary school to primary school last … More
What Part Don’t You Get? Part 2
In my last blog, I wrote about the four reasons why many of my secondary students couldn’t learn science through … More
What Part Don’t You Get?
A message to my secondary school self… In my 18 years of secondary science teaching, I went through at least two swings … More
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