Freddie McGill

Assessment Exams Policies 

Do School Examinations Fail Some Of Our Pupils?

10th March 20199th March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 689 Views 4 Comments Curriculum, Dame Rachel De Souza, Debate Chamber, Dubai, Edward Thorndike, English, Examinations, Exams, Freddie McGill, Global Skills and Education Forum, Harvard, Jeanne Allen, Maths, Pilot, Premature, Professor Jo Ritzen, Susan Hopgood, The End of Average, Todd L Rose, USA Air Force

Reading Time: 5 minutes How did you score in your maths and English examinations at school?

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Blogging Parenting Students 

A Boy Called Freddie …

18th November 201819th November 2018 @TeacherToolkit 1524 Views 7 Comments Admissions, Blogging, child development, Childhood, development, Family, Freddie McGill, growth, Nick Gibb, Parenting, Parents, Paretning, Premature, Premature babies, Premature Birth, Prematurity, redundancy, Special Educational Needs, Summer Born, World Prematurity Day

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you know how this website started?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

We Need To Pop The Differentiation Bubble!

9th December 201723rd November 2018 @TeacherToolkit 10843 Views 11 Comments #DifferentiationBubble, ability, average, Differentiation, Education, Edward Thorndike, Fads, Freddie McGill, gimmick, Harvard, Instructor, mixed ability, Myths, PIRLS, Pisa, Rankings, School, setting, standardisation, Swimming, teacher, teaching, The End of Average, The Law of Effect, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Todd Rose

Reading Time: 7 minutes Can teachers actually meet the needs of all their students?

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Assessment Parenting 

6: Growing Up!

19th May 201721st May 2017 @TeacherToolkit 4063 Views 2 Comments 6th birthday, @FreddieWM, Assessment, Family, father, Freddie McGill, Key Stage 1, neo-natal, NICU, party, Premature, Primary, summative, superhero, World Premature Day

Reading Time: 4 minutes How do you know if you’re doing a good enough job as a parent?

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Teaching and Learning 

Born Too Small, Born Too Soon.

16th November 201616th November 2016 @TeacherToolkit 4690 Views 1 Comment #WorldPrematurityDay, Bag of Sugar, Bliss Charity, EPIcure, Freddie McGill, Premature, Tommy's Baby

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are pre-term children are at higher risk of learning difficulties and poor academic attainment?

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Parenting 

Making Informed Decisions

3rd June 20163rd June 2016 @TeacherToolkit 3512 Views 4 Comments Barnet Hospital, Freddie McGill, NeoNatal, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Premature, UCL, University College London Hospital

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you are a parent and a teacher, which is harder to manage: the emotions, or the sapping of your energy

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Parenting 

5 Years Later

23rd May 201622nd May 2016 @TeacherToolkit 3553 Views 8 Comments 5th Birthday, @FreddieWM, Birthday, Bliss Charity, Fathers Day, Freddie McGill, NeoNatal, NICU, Parenting

Reading Time: 4 minutes What do you think when looking back on a child’s life?

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Parenting Staff Well Being 

The #GuiltyTeacher Revisited

14th October 201514th October 2015 @TeacherToolkit 3944 Views 4 Comments Absence, Childcare, Freddie McGill, GuiltyTeacher, Michael Steer, Recruitment, Retention, Sickness

Reading Time: 4 minutes How did you feel when you needed to take a day absent from work/school/the classroom? 

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Parenting 

Proud To Be A Parent

7th September 20157th September 2015 @TeacherToolkit 2614 Views 2 Comments @FreddieWM, Back To School, Freddie McGill, NeoNatal, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Parenting, Premature, Reception

Reading Time: 3 minutes Did you know, that 1 in 9 children are born premature here in the UK and as a result 1 in

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Blogging Parenting 

#FathersDay: On Being A Dad by @TeacherToolkit

21st June 201528th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2033 Views 2 Comments Fathers Day, Freddie McGill, Hugh McGill, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Parenting

Reading Time: 4 minutes What do you remember about your father?

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Blogging Parenting 

School Admissions Code Awareness by @BlissCharity

18th October 201426th August 2015 @TeacherToolkit 1829 Views 4 Comments @FreddieWM, Bliss, Bliss Baby Charity, Freddie McGill, Premature babies, school admissions

Reading Time: 3 minutes The issue of admissions, summer-born children and premature babies are subjects very close to my heart. After a month of

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