The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
Times Table Rockstars @ttrockstars
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...
Y4 Times Table Check
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...
Taskmaster Day 2
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 class...
Vocabulary Books
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...
Reporting Problems using Google Forms
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 one -...
Planning a Writing Task
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. So...here is what I...