In particular, almost no-one managed to get the multiple correct options right; often they would get two of the three, for example. The only protection KS3 teachers have is the fact that the KS2 SATs FORCES teachers to do lots of exam practice, lots of teaching and children expected to work hard. Mocked mercilessly by my friends for insisting we arrive super-early for this session, I watched as the room filled to standing room only. I stood in the middle of those kids and felt I was watching a revolution in education – giving kids the facts, the knowledge, the grammar, the confidence to achieve anything in their lives. The decision to come at the argument from the perspective of a parent of a child was masterful; we must always keep our key stakeholders at the forefront of any thinking we do on our profession.

I am teaching the same lesson to each class – usually one straight after the other – the same concepts and ideas. How Joe has changed and Jesus has used him to shine light to people still in the dark is remarkable. Once you experience the empowerment of starting your day with Him, you will never want to begin your day without Him.They are answering questions, positing ideas, listening and annotating or taking notes, reading, reading reading; writing, writing, writing. Thirdly, they are organised into manageable sections, allowing teachers and students to focus on the discrete aspects of the unit. Much of what Wilson said concerned combating sexism and labeling of “troubled” boys, and made a lot of sense.

We have a school uniform which the pupils are supposed to wear, but a visitor would be hard-pressed to say what it is. God’s angels urge Lot and his family to flee from Sodom and Gomorrah because the Lord is going to destroy the city with fire and brimstone—but what does Lot do? Shakespeare now makes Antony speak his mind after Caesar’s death to portray Antony’s true character, a manipulative, magnanimous and mendacious individual.Nonetheless, when completing a unit we do sometimes give pupils an assessment to see what they can do.