by Ian Addison | Nov 19, 2012 | Assessment, blogposts, Curriculum
As you may know, I have spent many months writing, changing and adapting lessons for our ICT scheme of work. It’s gone from a stand-alone lesson towards a more cross-curricular approach and it hasn’t been plain sailing. I have created a website,...
by Ian Addison | Nov 13, 2012 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT, Digital Leaders
This post is just to announce that the wiki pages for Teachmeet Takeover and Kidsmeet Takeover at BETT2013 are now live. If you are unaware, a Takeover is where a company gives up part of their stand for 30 minutes so that a teacher or group of children, can share...
by Ian Addison | Nov 10, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum
This week we were focussing on the book Where the Forest Meets the Sea and we were looking at expanding the simple sentences in the book into paragraphs. This included using our senses to think about what else was in the picture and how we could extend the text...
by Ian Addison | Nov 7, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum
A little while ago I was talking to some people who had attended literacy training with Alan Peat (@alanpeat – http://www.alanpeat.com/) and they mentioned his book “Writing Exciting Sentences” and being an area I was interested in, I bought the...
by Ian Addison | Nov 4, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Today I went on my first geocaching experience. For those that don’t know, a geocache is a container that is hidden somewhere in the world. It has coordinates assigned to it and then using these coordinates (or an app) people go and look for the boxes. Inside...
by Ian Addison | Nov 3, 2012 | Blogging, blogposts
This term we have really been going for it with our blogs and one comment that kept coming up was that it was hard to find the “log-in” link on the site. We have our school blog (www.stjohnsblogs.co.uk) and we also have a number of class blogs too. Each...
