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Using Tassomai to help close the attainment gap in my school
Faye Brodrick, Head of Science at Ysgol Maesydderwen Comprehensive School in Swansea tells us how she created a ‘secret Tassomai club’ with her lowest attaining students in order to narrow the gap between her school’s highest and lowest grades.
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Using Tassomai data to improve interventions (and save time on marking too)!
Nick Cleator, Head of Science at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Cheshire tells us how Tassomai data has changed his department’s approach to homework and lesson planning.
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English teaching deserves edtech too
Abi Ludlow, English teacher and Tassomai lead at Richard Lander School in Truro discusses her experience with Tassomai’s KS4 English literature content and her hopes for its future.
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Tassomai and Torquay Academy - An Award-Winning Team?
Tassomai is a BETT and ERA Awards finalist for its unique content collaboration project with Torquay Academy. Find out what Reece Broome, Head of Online Learning, has to say about the program and how his school embraced Tassomai across every department.
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Learning in lockdown
Andy Darracott is the Deputy Head of Science at The Petersfield School in Hampshire, he tells us how Tassomai helped his school to personalise teaching during the pandemic.
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Surviving the stress of GCSEs… How Tassomai helped our family!
Elaine subscribed to Tassomai to help her daughters through their GCSEs . The family have seen the impact that Tassomai can have on grades, exam stress and revision planning.
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Independent learning with Tassomai
Head of Science, James Stradling writes about the challenges facing our coastline schools and using Tassomai as a tool to promote independent study.
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Tassomai at Key Stage 3
Heathfield Community School is one of the schools using Tassomai’s new Key Stage 3 content, with a particular focus on their Pupil Premium students . Emily Mason, Heathfield’s Pupil Premium Coordinator tells us about implementing the program and their progress so far.
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My approach to Tassomai… a student’s success story
A Tassomai student tells us how she used the program to help her go from 4s and 5s to 8s and 9s, discovering a newfound love for science along the way!
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Less paperwork, more learning
Laura Foulsham, Head of Science at St. John Bosco College tells us why (and how) her department made Tassomai the primary homework for all KS4 students , significantly reducing the time spent on admin and marking.
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Improving outcomes
Ben Parnell, Regional Director for Greenshaw Learning Trust identified Tassomai as an intervention tool to improve science outcomes in two schools in the West Country, each with their own challenges.
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Rapid results in just a few months
Matthew Moss High School introduced Tassomai in the run up to Christmas and got their best ever GCSE science results within just 6 months - Claire Crichton-Allen tells us how they did it!
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Making the Grade with Tassomai
Carole Dean, Headteacher at The Stonehenge School on reducing the gender gap and her school’s spectacular GCSE science results.
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How Tassomai helped my students get more A’s and B’s (and I ended up in A&E)
Science teacher Richard Fulford on his Tassomai experience, the impact on grades and how it halved teacher marking in year 11.
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“The Cheese Factor” Top Tips for Implementing EdTech in School
David Back, Assistant Headteacher at James Hornsby School in Essex talks about tech in the classroom and how he got Tassomai up and running.
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The A* Team - How Tassomai is helping students succeed at GCSE science
In August 2017, GCSE results were published and we were able to see how our Tassomai students got on in their exams.
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