Top 5 Posts of 2012

by | Dec 28, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts

Before writing a review of 2012, which will take a bit of thought, I thought I would share the top 5 posts on this blog throughout the whole of 2012. What this top 5 does show is that all of these posts are over a year old (the BETT one is 4 days from its first...

Random Sentences

by | Dec 9, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I am having a bit of a focus on writing interesting sentences with my class. They are mixed Year 3/4 and of varying abilities as you would expect. I have been working on whiteboard work as a whole class looking at connectives and...

ICT Curriculum and Assessment

by | Nov 19, 2012 | Assessment, blogposts, Curriculum

As you may know, I have spent many months writing, changing and adapting lessons for our ICT scheme of work. It’s gone from a stand-alone lesson towards a more cross-curricular approach and it hasn’t been plain sailing. I have created a website,...

Google Docs for shared writing

by | Nov 10, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum

This week we were focussing on the book Where the Forest Meets the Sea and we were looking at expanding the simple sentences in the book into paragraphs. This included using our senses to think about what else was in the picture and how we could extend the text...

Writing Exciting Sentences

by | Nov 7, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum

A little while ago I was talking to some people who had attended literacy training with Alan Peat (@alanpeat – http://www.alanpeat.com/) and they mentioned his book “Writing Exciting Sentences” and being an area I was interested in, I bought the...

My First Geocache

by | Nov 4, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software

Today I went on my first geocaching experience. For those that don’t know, a geocache is a container that is hidden somewhere in the world. It has coordinates assigned to it and then using these coordinates (or an app) people go and look for the boxes. Inside...

Adding Links in WordPress

by | Nov 3, 2012 | Blogging, blogposts

This term we have really been going for it with our blogs and one comment that kept coming up was that it was hard to find the “log-in” link on the site. We have our school blog (www.stjohnsblogs.co.uk) and we also have a number of class blogs too. Each...

Spreading the word

by | Oct 31, 2012 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets

As you may be aware, there is a Teachmeet happening in Hampshire in 2 weeks time. If you are aware then you might have seen it in one of the following places: Here on this blog On the Teachmeet Hants blog On the Hampshire BLT page Via Twitter By being my friend on...