by Ian Addison | Dec 31, 2013 | blogposts, General Thoughts
To be honest, 2013 was never going to top 2012 was it? Last year I got married, turned 30 and released my first book. 2013 would’ve had to be very special to come close. Although it didn’t have anything as huge as those events, it was a year of change for...
by Ian Addison | Dec 27, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum
One of my Christmas jobs is to plan the curriculum for the rest of Year 4. We did look at this in May when draft documents were out and we pencilled in an overview for the year but quite quickly we realised that we needed to change it. This happened for many reasons...
by Ian Addison | Dec 2, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum
Recently we have introduced a few new strategies to improve the vocabulary and the writing for the children we work with. Firstly, we started with “Word of the Week”. This is a different word that we would teach the children each week. Following an inset...
by Ian Addison | Oct 30, 2013 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
This post has been written to ask for your help and support. Each year for the past four years, there has been a Takeover event at BETT. This is where companies give up their stand for half hour slots so that teachers can come and present on a range of free software,...
by Ian Addison | Oct 20, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum, Useful Sites/Software
I am writing this post because I have been asked by a few people how I actually use the 100 Word Challenge within school. So I though I would share a few ideas to get you started. This week, over 1000 children have contributed to the weekly prompt for the first time....
