Vice Principal at Torquay Academy and Chemistry teacher. Pupil premium/narrowing the gap.
Joined September 2014
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20 Jan 2023
A wonderful trip to Exeter College Oxford with year 9 and year 12 #TorquayAcademy students. Thanks to @ExColOutreach for putting on a great programme!
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20 Jan 2023
Students really enjoyed the whole day including a visit to Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo where we spotted the pillar made of Torquay limestone.
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Mark Gale retweeted
23 Aug 2022
I have a report out this morning with @instituteforgov on why drastic reform of the exam system is the last thing we need. Instead we should move to a new model of incremental improvement in assessment. instituteforgovernment.org.u…
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Mark Gale retweeted
13 Aug 2022
Making the most of the #sunshine to read @kathrine_28 book Disciplinary Literacy. Love the clear Teaching & Learning expectations for teachers & students which also support #coaching.
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Mark Gale retweeted
27 Jul 2022
Students have been through a lot and that means we should expect behavior to be a challenge next year. Some notes on preparing to teach behavior (rather than merely give consequences):
teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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7 Feb 2022
Just received the advance notice information for A-level chemistry. The first two items are:
- Organic chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
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13 Nov 2021
Wise words, expressed compassionately.
13 Nov 2021
Are we making our children too fragile? southgloshead.wordpress.com/…
9 Feb 2021
Impressed by the huge number and very wide range of Cultural Knowledge articles our Torquay Academy staff have written. Well over 300 in just two and a half weeks! Very proud of this achievement.
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9 Feb 2021
Here's a sample of titles:
The Kremlin
Eva Perón
Cheddar Caves
Nose to the Grindstone
The Twelve Apostles
Air Quality Index
Stockholm
... TA students will be the most knowledgeable students in the country!
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7 Feb 2021
Very much looking forward to discussing literacy strategy with @Kathrine_28 tomorrow - exciting plans for reading across the curriculum, library usage, disciplinary literacy.
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7 Feb 2021
Accidentally typed "liturgy strategy" to begin with - happy to discuss that too!!
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6 Feb 2021
Best experience during a live video lesson so far: sharing an individual Google Doc with Y13 students via Google Classroom and giving live feedback as they complete it individually.
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Mark Gale retweeted
18 Dec 2020
"It is, I suppose, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving. The government, I mean. Because every time you think they cannot possibly set a new low in their handling of education, they manage somehow to do so": my @tes blog: buff.ly/2WtycYI
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27 Sep 2020
I was particularly struck by the idea that some boys are susceptible to short-term incentives, taking the quick cash available and putting off going to university, with the lack of certainty about getting a career making the expense questionable.
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21 Aug 2020
Controversial opinion perhaps, but I shudder every time I see "BTec" rather than "BTEC".
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17 Aug 2020
I really don't like the idea of reverting to CAGs, because they are unstandardised, but I don't think there's any other option now, and it's the least worst-case scenario - unless universities can find some way of accepting more of the offers they had made.
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17 Aug 2020
No one should have been given a calculated grade U (how can you fail an exam you did not sit?) and the distributions applied to schools should have had percentages rounded up, not down.
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17 Aug 2020
And the appeals system should have been in place for schools to use between results being issued to schools (which could have been weeks ago) and results being given to students (on the usual results day).
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14 Aug 2020
Well worth a read.
13 Aug 2020
1) I'm going to try and do a fair and balanced summary thread on what's gone on today with A-levels. It is more complicated than the headlines (as ever) so please bear with me.
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