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It is always difficult to predict how long any project will take - the news is full of projects that have overrun and overspent. You could estimate the time by using Murphy's Law of Time Management...
21 April 2015
New update reflects Royal Mail's price changes.
16 April 2015
Learning times tables can be very boring, but this card game for two players is a fun way of doing it and it will encourage the learning of times tables as a reflex action.
30 March 2015
We have made our website more mobile friendly.
When you connect to mwls.com using a mobile phone - and if the page is available as a mobile version - you will be redirected to our mobile site. Tablet computers should still see the desktop page.
If you would prefer to use the desktop site, just click on the 'Desktop version' link that you will find towards the the top or bottom of the page. Please note that this feature will only work if your browser allows the use of cookies. The desktop version is now shown full size instead of being shrunk to fit your screen - just scroll to bring the part of the page that you want to see into view.
At present, the actual resources can only be viewed in the desktop version. This will be done automatically if you click to view a resource. You can return to the mobile version by clicking on 'Mobile' towards the top of the lefthand column.
18 March 2015
Our online shop has had a refit and has been given a new name - Learning Pages.
Learning obviously reflects that it is about learning and Pages emphasises that we sell other learning media in addition to books.
16 March 2015
English state secondary schools are not doing enough to stretch their most able students.
An Ofsted report says that these gifted pupils are not keeping up with their counterparts in independent and grammar schools.
Sean Harford, Ofsted's national director of schools, said that children are not realising their early promise, but heads'; leader Russell Hobby said it that it was neither sensible nor accurate to accuse schools of failing and that there had been so many changes imposed on secondary schools that the system itself is getting in the way of success.
Inspectors looked at how well pupils who had been high-flyers at primary school made the transition into secondary school. While inspectors found pockets of excellence, too many of these children are not being challenged sufficiently - and thousands of highly performing primary pupils are not realising their early promise when they move to secondary school.
Research shows that England compares poorly with other countries in its provision for the highly able and our brightest students are failing to make the most of their talents.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: 'We know that the best schools do stretch their pupils. They are the ones with a no-excuses culture that inspires every student to do their best.
'That is why we are replacing the discredited system which rewarded schools where the largest numbers of pupils scraped a C grade at GCSE.
'Instead we are moving to a new system which encourages high-achievers to get the highest grades possible while also recognising schools which push those who find exams harder.'
8 March 2015
Our March newsletter is now available.
2 March 2015
The human brain is not very good when it comes to calculating the probabilty of something happening - or not happening. This is why pay-day loans can catch people out and why we are likely to invoke the supernatural when there is no need to do so.
This article gives some examples and explains why we have a tendency to believing things that are not true.
25 February 2015
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