by Ian Addison | Feb 11, 2018 | Curriculum
Recently I attended the BETT show and part of the reason to visit is to see the latest technology available in the classroom but this post is about something else entirely. While there, I attended a presentation by Lee Parkinson and John Murray sharing their...
by Ian Addison | Jan 13, 2018 | Curriculum
This week in Year 3, we started reading a new book based on our topic of Egypt. It wasn’t a long book, about 15 pages in fact but I still wanted the children to be hooked in and to get enthused about what they were going to read (and be writing about). They...
by Ian Addison | Jan 9, 2018 | Maths
This week in Year 3, we have been looking at addition but in various different ways. We have used place value counters before and number line, but this was our first foray into the expanded column method. It was also the first time that they had used the bar model...
by Ian Addison | Jan 6, 2018 | General Thoughts
It has been 516 days since my last post (Google is wonderful isn’t it?). In fact, since December 2014 I have blogged just 5 times. That seems ridiculous considering how much I used to blog and tweet. What happened? School. Life. A baby (now a toddler). So much...
by Ian Addison | Aug 8, 2016 | ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
It’s that time of year again. It’s time to get the CSVs from the office staff and to create usernames for various different online tools that we use. This is the 2016 update of this post that is now five years old. Having just re-read the post, it is...
by Ian Addison | Jul 23, 2016 | Useful Sites/Software
Two years ago I wrote about sharing photos with parents, and at the time, I was dabbling in using Cloudup. Although this is a good service and is free, users are limited to 1000 uploads (approx 200gb per account). This won’t last long in a school that is...
by Ian Addison | Jun 4, 2016 | Useful Sites/Software
As many teachers will know, it is now a Year 4 expectation that children will know all of their times tables. This is obviously useful throughout the maths curriculum but I am not going to debate whether children should or shouldn’t learn them all. This post is...
by Ian Addison | Jun 1, 2016 | General Thoughts
This is a bit weird isn’t it? In the past 18 months (since December 2014 in fact) I have posted just twice. Once about Teachmeet Takeover at BETT2015 and once in Feb ’15 about the Teachmeet at the Education Show. In fact, both of those events were huge...
by Ian Addison | Feb 3, 2015 | Presentations / Teachmeets
Are you planning to go to the Education Show in March? It is held at the NEC in Birmingham and on the Saturday, I have been given the Leader Summit Theatre to host a Teachmeet. For those that don’t already know, a Teachmeet is an event where etachers come...
by Ian Addison | Dec 7, 2014 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets
It’s that time of year again, BETT is only a few weeks away so it’s time to start getting organised. Once again Teachmeet Takeover is there as an avenue for teachers to hijack stands and share ideas. Each year we have some very generous companies and...
