by Ian Addison | Sep 3, 2019 | General Thoughts
Earlier this evening, I shared a way that I have been helping staff to fix small IT problems themselves and some people asked how I did it, so I thought it would make sense to write a blog post. So, it looks like this: This is a Google Document that I have made...
by Ian Addison | Aug 31, 2019 | General Thoughts
You may not have heard of subitizing, I hadn’t until approximately 18months ago but bear with me for a few minutes and I’ll explain. There is a website by Susanna Wu that explains it in much more detail than I could and backs up why it is important, so...
by Ian Addison | Aug 26, 2019 | General Thoughts
There have been many discussions about the use of Times Table Rockstars online and I have often posted about how we use it in school. To save repeating myself, I thought I would write a blog post to share how I use TTRS. TTRS have not asked me to write this post, I...
by Ian Addison | Aug 5, 2019 | General Thoughts
I was talking to someone online about the Y4 Multiplication Check (MTC) recently and I explained that I had written up some notes to pass to teachers for next year. I thought it might be worth sharing them here too. My original notes are school-specific so I have...
by Ian Addison | Jul 20, 2019 | General Thoughts
I have blogged about using Taskmaster in the classroom before here and James Blake-Lobb has blogged here and here. I would suggest reading those posts before continuing. We don’t break up for the holidays until Tuesday so we have two days left of the term. My Y3...
by Ian Addison | May 9, 2019 | General Thoughts
I tweeted recently about the vocabulary books that we use in Year 3 and after receiving a few questions about them, I thought it would make sense to write a blog post. Each child has an A5 exercise book and all of the things I am going to talk about our stuck in...
by Ian Addison | Feb 11, 2019 | General Thoughts
For years now, I have used Google forms to allow staff and children to report problems. We have 2 main forms on our school website: For reporting technical issues – they fill in their name, the device location and the problem they are havingA general e-safety...
by Ian Addison | Feb 5, 2019 | General Thoughts
Over the weekend, I saw this blog post from James Durran. It talks about a change in focus from planning success criteria for writing so go read that and then come back here to see what I have done. It’s ok, I’ll wait. Done? Good....
by Ian Addison | Jan 4, 2019 | General Thoughts
This is the second part of my guide to using Spelling Shed. The first post looked at creating users and can be found here. In this post, I will talk through using the Spelling Scheme, setting up Assignments, creating a Hive Game and accessing pupil data. Spelling...
by Ian Addison | Jan 4, 2019 | General Thoughts
I was talking to a friend of mine about Spelling Shed and she asked for my opinion and some tips on getting it all set up and working. I then thought that it might be useful to have a blog post so that if anyone else had similar questions, I could point them here...
