Anti(cyber)-bullying week

During a discussion with Year 3/4 teachers last week, we were talking about anti-bullying week which happens every year. Now we are lucky enough not to have a bullying problem in our school and whether this is down to our children, our staff or our policies, I...

A PTA Website

Our PTA (called PAFS – Parents and Friends) wanted to have an area online for communicating with parents and the wider school community. We talked about a static page on our school site that updated now and again depending on events that were happening within...

Pictographs and Pictograms

John Mclear and his team have made many fantastic websites and tools including Primary Wall, Satpin, Primary Games Arena and Primary Pad, but the new one is fantastic. It’s the pictograph tool. This tool lets you create a simple pictograph using any subjects you...

To YouTube or not to YouTube?

On our school blog we currently have a lot of images and pictures but we are starting to think of a better way of sharing videos. The way that I see it is that there are a number of tools available to us and they all have merits but recently my thinking has changed....

Embeddable Content

In the past year or so we have been doing a lot of blogging at school and in the past few months we’ve been making websites using Google Sites. One thing that the children have enjoyed doing is embedding content from other sites. What does embedding mean?...