Certified (Part 1)

This is a post I probably should’ve written a few months back but it’s only today (with a bit of a blog tidy up) that I have got round to it. After attending the Google Teacher Academy in July 2010, we launched Google Apps in our school and I have blogged...

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...

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....

Rate My School

I thought I’d share a site with you that was shared with me. You may have heard about it, but you probably haven’t. I hadn’t either until this morning! The website is called Parent View and it allows parents to record their thoughts about their...

Jog on…

I’ve posted a few times about my running exploits and I have been getting some fairly good times this year and I’m even starting to enjoy myself. Now as you probably know, I am running in the Great South Run on Sunday and have been asking for sponsorship...