Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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According to Ananova this morning, the CBI is still stuck in the “Vocational education is for thickies” belief system that even the notoriously right-wing IOD grew out of two years ago. I’d invite the CBI to investigate whether they still have a sign on their door saying “tradesmen use rear entrance”, and if so whether…
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Just launched – online assessment delivered through the web. Students’ marks come back to the teacher automatically! Built with our amazing Paperless School technology.
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Compare if you will our Business Studies Encyclopedia against our ICT Encyclopedia At time of writing, the ICT Encyclopedia is both unfinished and unedited, but that’s not the distinction I’m drawing your attention to. Nor is the difference in colour scheme. The most important distinction is invisible to the user; it’s the speed with which…
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A couple of people have written in about this question in the KS4 band: Here is part of a spreadsheet from a school shop. If the price of a gel pen went up to 60p, which one of the cells listed below would have a new value? At first glance it may seem that we’ve…
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The DfES has rejected a call by the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy (AKA Teenage Pregnancy Unit to make PSHE compulsory in secondary schools. You might think that as the country’s leading PSHE publisher I’d be up in arms about this, but actually I think they are quite right to hold back. PSHE is…
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