Report from Queen Marys College, Basingstoke

How we are getting on

What are you and your students finding valuable about SNAB?

The context-based learning, the high quality resources and range of activities. The course is excellent at providing a differentiated learning approach.

What are you finding challenging?

A2 projects - both in terms of sheer numbers (we are likely to have 100 this year at A2), and we did not enjoy the electronic submission and electronic marking which gave us problems and took too much staff time.

What do you foresee happening next year?

We will stay with the Edexcel specification, but it will be reviewed if the AS coursework burden for teaching staff is too high. We have 170+ AS students and classes are routinely 20+. A member of staff could have potentially 70+ AS students in their care.

by Keith Bonugli