Missing Words, Rotations & 3 minutes

Hi

Although there has been a slight lull as GCSE students are taking a well deserved summer break, it’s good to see a number of year 9 / 10’s coming through. My favourite conversations this week have been:

Mr A (year 10) “I’ve just been moved up to set 1 in both maths & English”

Miss E (year 9) “I get it! — yep, definitely get it!”

Miss A (year 10) “Grade 9 in mocks”

Mr M (year 9 and showing great determination) “Huh, OK, fine … I’ll do it again”

It’s good to see these younger students working hard with their studies, and I’m sure they’ll continue towards some exceptional GCSE results. Just for your information, it looks like paper 1 was the most challenging this year — here’s another brilliantly unscientific straw poll (good job I’m not a statistician):

Key Stage 2

Developing good vocabulary is an important part of primary education, and knowing how to construct sentences will always be useful. Here’s a worksheet on ‘missing words’ — can you make sense of the sentences?

Key Stage 3

Thank you to those students who completed last week’s translations materials. Here’s a worksheet on rotations — just as useful for describing how objects move.

Key Stage 4

Along with the final few weeks of GCSE tutoring, came the challenging questions. And, I must admit there’s been a few ‘hmmm’ moments. The questions might not always be popular, but I can’t help admiring the people who write them.

Here’s a couple that I recently posted to the YouTube channel: Indices and Rearranging a formula.

Have a great week!

Simon D

PS. And, the joke of the day:

What do you call a group of people who really like farm machinery?

Protractors.

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