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Clarification A notice concerning our recent Teach Secondary Awards coverage As part of our recent Teach Secondary Awards coverage, SAM Learning was named the overall winner in the Assessment category for the second consecutive year. We would like to address a comment in the original publication suggesting SAM Learning carried a ‘high cost.’ To clarify, SAM Learning is widely recognised for its cost-effectiveness and exceptional value, offering measurable impact on student outcomes. On average, students achieve two grades better with just 30 minutes of weekly use, with disadvantaged students seeing even greater gains. SAM Learning is competitively priced relative to similar products, making it an affordable and proven solution for schools seeking to enhance their students’ academic achievements and teacher efficiency. We apologise for any misunderstanding caused by the previous wording, and invite schools to explore why SAM Learning continues to win awards and deliver outstanding results year after year. For more information, visit samlearning.com or follow @samlearning A F E W M I N U T E S O F D E S I G N Look at the information on the card below. How could it be understood at a glance? Using pictures, symbols, shapes, lines and/or colours, as well as words or numbers – or instead of them–make the information clear and quick to understand. GCSE MACBETH @GCSE_Macbeth If your students struggle with GCSE English Language because they don’t have the wider reading experience and the mental library to draw on, you need to bring that wide reading INTO CLASS in KS3. Breadth over depth at KS3. Shared experience of texts that everyone can draw on. Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social To be very clear, as a teacher I don’t want “time-saving AI tools.” I want time. Follow us via @teachsecondary – and let us knowwhat you’re thinking Like and subscribe Who’s been saying what on the socials of late? TEACHER TAL ES True stories fromthe education chalkface An inspector calls… A meeting was in progress, attended by the school’s head, members of SLT and an Ofsted inspector – who was there as part of a pre-inspection visit, seated with his back to the window. It was therefore only the senior staff who witnessed a dramatic classroom evacuation into the grassy area outside the head’s office, after (it later emerged) a student released the noxious-smelling contents of a small gas canister while a lesson was in progress. The window’s double glazing fortunately prevented those present from hearing the coughing and spluttering of the classroom evacuees, or indeed smelling the noxious odour in question. The SLT members immediately proceeded to engage the inspector in a protracted and somewhat intense conversation to keep him from turning round and witnessing the drama unfolding behind him. Alas, however, he was made all too aware of the situation not long after, when the local Fire Brigade arrived on site with full blues and twos fanfare, to determine what the gas was and duly dispose of the canister safely… University challenge I once came upon a heated break time exchange between some Y11s that threatened to descend into violence. I cautiously approached them, only to hear one say to the other, “ No, you have to do your Masters before you can do your PhD! ” Have a memorable true school tale or anecdote of your own? Share the details, and find more amusing stories, at schoolhumour.co.uk #33 PICTURE THI S 09 teachwire.net/secondary N E WS | J A N / F E B