Chris Eyre Education

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The New to OCR A Level RS event in London next week is now full. However if you are interested in accessing the training, there is a form on the webpage below. Leave your details and I will see if I can arrange something...
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Choosing an exam board for A Level RS...
There is no perfect specification so we have to weigh up what on balance is best for the students that we teach. In the college where I used to work, that led us to OCR. The blog post is a rationale for that decision. Hope it is useful to anyone who is facing similar decisions.
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A Level RS - why we went with OCR Recently there have been lots of discussions online about the relative merits of different boards for RS A level. I thought it would be helpful to summarise a few of the factors that led us as a college to opt for OCR in the first place and a few things that we have noticed since. (This is partly an...

'So Chris, what exactly do you do?'

When I bump into people who I've not seen for a while, that tends to be their question. I used to be able to answer with 1-2 words - RS teacher. The answer these days is a little complicated

'So Chris, what exactly do you do?' People often ask me the above question recently or show an interest in how the freelance journey is going. I am now in my 5th year of doing this in some form - for the first 3 years I continued to teach part-time. When I was a full time teacher the answer to the question 'what exactly do you do each...

Looking forward to this event next week. There are 2 spaces left if you're quick!
More details and booking via the link
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Half term holidays are great but sometimes it can be tricky dealing with the sudden change from the frantic pace of term time to a sudden standstill. We might also struggle in figuring out what to do with our time if we haven't planned well. More thoughts on surviving holidays below in this abridged chapter from .

Surviving Holidays (Abridged version of ch 24 of my ‘Elephant in the Staffroom’ book)According to the old joke, October is the month where the cricket fan discovers that his wife left him in August. Only when the season has ended does anything from normal life come to his attention. The grain of truth in this for ...

Every organisation has its drummers and bass players. Those people who quietly get on and make the organisation tick. Who are the unsung heroes in your workplace or voluntary group? What can you do to show your appreciation?

Here's to all the Drummers A long time ago – thankfully before the age of Youtube and social media – I used to do a bit of music; there was a very brief band with a couple of friends. I remember a more skilled musician than myself once saying that he thought you could cope with most things in music except a bad drummer. I...

Still got a few spaces left on this if you are new to OCR A Level RS. A day looking at curriculum planning, ways of working, assessment, a couple of tricker topics and plenty of space for individual questions. https://buff.ly/x2fIY5t

Second school visit of the week yesterday delivering training to a school in Kent who are moving to AQA A Level Philosophy. Great to work with them on curriculum planning, assessment and unpacking a couple of the less familiar topics.

Still a few places available for new or new-ish OCR A Level Religious Studies teachers. Should be a great day https://buff.ly/Rc0OVVp

In a simple sense dealing with email isn't the main thing in teaching yet we can so easily get dragged into spending significant time managing our inboxes - here are 8 tips/challenges as we seek to make this aspect of our lives less stressful

A brief guide to handling teacher emails In my book ‘the elephant in the staffroom’ I briefly mentioned dealing with email, citing one interesting statistic from John Freeman’s that American corporate workers spend up to 40% of the day dealing with email; it may well be higher given almost ten years have passed since the study. Teach...