I like that everyone is nice about it, but I hate that it's a story. It sounds like they could have emailed the abbey about it with the same outcome, without the poor guard having his understandable decision to interpret 'a summoning of ancient terrors' in a negative way broadcast nationally.

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Exactly. The only circumstance where it would feel appropriate is one where you need to ensure the message is received, and this doesn't do that!

That is an awful feature. If you emailed someone every two minutes for twenty minutes about something it would be seen as a form of harassing them.

For me sometimes it's looking at whether I've helped make other people's lives easier that week. That can be pupils, it can be teachers, but being able to say someone's week was easier because of my work is enough for me. It's a low enough bar that it's relatively easy to manage! 😂

I think cooking language translates well to maths problems. With a difficult problem the best approach might be to let it simmer for a bit in the back of your mind until you bring it to the boil and solve it.

With last year's grade boundaries I would have predicted the right amount of Grade 9s, but we only got 2 as it was. I'm just not sure how other schools got their higher pupils to do so much better, so want to learn everyone else's secrets!

Have found them and will definitely be coming back to them to use - thank you for sharing them!

Thanks - will definitely check out all the Integral resources! Have got a different textbook from a course I went on last year.

We direct ours to the sources of practice papers we want them to try to try and stop that - I have a OneDrive folder with them all saved in, but to be honest I think your students are just practising more than mine! 😂

I would *love* to be on a plateau of productivity. The last few weeks have been a dip of distractions!

My solution to the issue of pupils getting hold of mock papers has always been to use papers from different series. For Year 12 worked brilliantly because with one pure and one applied we didn't have to worry about repetition of topics, but for the others if it's not a problem for Edexcel... 😙

If I can budget it I buy the Corbett Maths revision cards for Y11. Offer something different than what they will otherwise use. Apart from that I echo the subscriptions mentioned - they get used more then textbooks in my experience! Most used is probably MathsPad!

A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics by Martin Liebeck was one of the recommended ones when I started at Warwick, and I think fits what you want.

Yeah, there's got to be a limit to it, right?

Resources on iteration keep being shared with only minor changes made.

As a middle leader in schools I feel like I spend a decent amount of my time teaching these skills as and when needed!

I'll be around if I can be, and might ask how it went, because I want them to know I'm invested, but I won't spend long discussing it with them, because I don't think it's helpful. But I do want them to know that I am there whether it went well or went badly, and will support them in either case