Spring into Science
Nadia Callow- Hussain April 2019 The idea for Spring into Science came about from being inspired by watching the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Like the Christmas Lectures our very own Spring into Science was set up to introduce a young audience to physics...
Assessment Objective 3 on the 9-1 GCSE Science Specification
Nadia Callow Hussain March 2019 I delivered short CPD session on strategies encourage teachers to students to have confidence when delivering these questions and building student confidence in answering questions. We looked at strategies to use and past paper...
Preconceptions in Science
Nadia Callow- Hussain March 2019 The Education Endowment Fund produced a report in 2018 on Improving Secondary Science. The first strand in the summary recommendations was to tackle the preconceptions that pupils bring into lessons. I ran a short CPD session at Ellis...
FOSAC – Real Science in Schools Symposium.
Nadia Callow- Hussain February 2019 As part of Nottingham’s amazing Festival of Science and Curiosity, the team set up a Symposium in the historic Council House (include fly through link https://vimeo.com/318457467/b080b4faac ) to showcase real life scientific...
Maths in Science – Thursday 6th December 18
Maths in Science went ahead at Nottingham University yesterday. Greg Thomas came in to give several hints and tips. How do you feel about equation triangles? He suggested that whilst they have their place, they may hinder progression and if students can calculate...
Evaluation of the 2018 GCSE with Daisi and Ofqual – Monday 3rd December 18
We had the Evaluation of the 2018 GCSE with Ofqual session today. It started off with Philip Burton from Daisi talking to the Nottingham City Heads of Science about the QLA and getting feedback on that. Then Sarah Old from Ofqual spoke, about the grading process,...
“Teaching the required practical work – sharing the challenges, opportunities and best practice ” Nadia Callow- Hussain (EIB Science Strand Lead)
On Monday 23 April, in collaboration with the OCR Science team, the Education Improvement Board and the School of Education we were delighted to welcome Dr David Paterson to the University of Nottingham. He is the current acting Chair of his local regional ASE...
Changing a culture – Damian Belshaw, Djanogly City Academy
Last February a group of staff went to visit the Uncommon Charter school system based in New York and New Jersey. We had identified this chain as an incredibly high performing group of schools who operated with stunning results in difficult circumstances. The chain...
EIB annual report
David Anstead, Strategic Lead for the Education Improvement Board (EIB) has written an annual report looking at the outcomes in Nottingham in 2016/17 and the work of the EIB. If you would like to get in touch about the report please email...
Reflecting on the last Academic Year – Caroline Vissani
Wow! It has been just over a year since myself and Lucy, along with the support of Martin Tilbrook (East Midlands South Maths Hub) embarked on an Early Years Maths Teacher Research project involving nine schools from across Nottingham City. I do not think anyone could...