Child Blogs

Today seems to be a day for thinking towards the future… We’ve been blogging now for 18months and some children have asked about setting their own blogs up. Now we have class blogs and some children have access to write on these. We also have the...

aye-pads, tablets and netbooks

Ok, so it’s sunny outside..that means some blue sky thinking. I think. I’m thinking about a scheme similar to ones running in many secondary schools already where pupils can buy/lease a device by paying monthly over a number of years. In my mind, netbooks...

Google Apps Webinar

Following on from the session a few weeks ago that looked at Google Apps, we have repeated the webinar. These webinars were in conjunction with Vital ICT and they have also been recorded. If you have any Google Apps related questions, feel free to get in touch. Click...

Can you really trust Wikipedia?

Some people say that Wikipedia contains a lot of nonsense and that some of the stuff on there just isn’t true. But did you know that there are teams of people who go through and check it for accuracy? Here’s an interesting graphic that was shared with me....

Solving a problem

In our maths lessons we are trying to include more problem solving opportunities. The idea is having a range of one-off stand-alone lessons that can be done with mixed ability classes on any area of maths. Ideally starting with year 3-4 (7-9 year olds). This will also...