Day 272 - Delayed Start

Wednesday January 13th

Would you believe it? A bit of overnight snow and it's delayed start, 3 year groups and no lessons for me. Brilliant! That's what I call a day at work. Tough call at 6am but in hindsight the whole school could have opened with a delayed start. Now we have a bunch of Year 9,10,11s feeling hard done by as they are in school and the others aren't. Lots of Year 11s did not come in at all.

As it stands, I haven't had a lesson with my Year 8s yet and once we get through the exam we will be pretty close to half term. Basically, that means getting behind on our scheme of work for the year and when they look at their teacher next year with a blank look when asked whether that have covered area of a circle, it will be my fault...or is that the snow's fault.

Not one lesson today, so used the time to sit with the other teachers and ask their advice on lesson plans and resources. A day like this a week would be perfect. This is what a lesson plan looks like for a half term.

10.2.2 Spring Term H1 Plan 12 Lessons

Representing Data/Surds/

AQA Book Module 1 & 3

#	Lesson	Learning Objectives	Resources	Homework
1	Mon 4th Jan. Computer Room	New Topic - Surds Surds (1/3) Recognise and simplify surds	Starter: Factorisation of 2010 Main: MyMaths Surds lesson and homework	None
2	Tues 5th Jan.	Surds (2/3) Rationalise the denominator of a surd	Starter: MyMaths sq. numbers Main: 10 ticks worksheet	AQA Mod 3 Ch 3 Apply 1 and 2
3	Mon 11th Jan. Observation	Surds (3/3) Solve problems including surds	Starter: Main: Malcolm Swan activity GCSE questions	None
1	Tues 12th Jan. DVS away	Representing Data (cont. from H2 Autumn) Construct a time series graph and plot the moving averages	Starter: Main: Power Point lesson and 10 ticks L7-8 Pack 6, Page 37
2	Mon 18th Jan	Construct a histogram (1/2)	Starter: Main: Power Point or MyMaths. Construct 2-3 in books	Finish
3	Tues 19th Jan	Interpret a histogram (2/2)	Starter: Main: 10 ticks Level 9 Pack 3 Page 37	From AQA book
1	Mon 25th Jan	New Topic – Probability Review – simple probability, listing outcomes, adding to 1, solving problems	Starter: Dice Bingo Main: Pack of Cards activity (as for 9.2.2)	None
2	Tues 26th Jan	Use relative frequency to find probabilities Compare to theoretical	Starter: Main: MyMaths lesson, compare results
3	Mon 1st Feb	Complete a tree diagram for successive independent events (1/2)	Starter: Main: 10 ticks L7-8 P1 Page 15	Finish worksheet
4	Tues 2nd Feb	Complete a tree diagram for successive independent events	Starter: Main: Class activity to complete diagram and calculate probability	Self Assessment on Mod 1 and 3
1	Mon 8th Feb NCL away 2nd Placement*	Catch Up Lesson		None
2	Tues 9th Feb 2nd Placement	Exam Revision		None

*2^nd Placement GTP Teacher is Frances Hudson from More House School in Farnham. First week before half term will be observation. Two weeks after half term, Frances will be planning and teaching