A Little Project

It all started way back in January 2012. It feels like it was a lot longer ago, but it really was less than 6 months ago when I was asked. It was between BETT and LWF to give you a timescale. Would I like to write a book about ICT for Rising Stars? I thought that it...

Spending time in the shed

I had to write a quick post about a truly stunning website that launched recently. I was lucky enough to see it in the first few days of it being online and since then it has grown and grown. The site in question? The Literacy Shed. Now, literacy has always been...

Education Blog Awards

I’d like to say thank you for all of the votes for my blog in both the ‘Teacher’s blog of the year’ and ‘Most Influential Blog of the Year’. Voting has now closed and this blog was outside of the top ten, but thank you for your...

Are you ready for seconds?

Are you prepared for a child blogging about your school? What if the Never Seconds blog had happened in your school. What would you have done? How would you have reacted? Would it have been able to happen at all? For those of you that have been under a rock for the...

Password Security

Have you ever thought about the passwords that you use? Or that you give to your children? In our school, to get on to the school network the children simply type their name without a password but for online services there are usually criteria to meet before a...