The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
Reporting a problem
How do you report an ICT problem in your school? Is there a book? Do you email the tech? Or...do you grab the ICT coordinator as they walk down the corridor/start their lesson? In my new school we have had significant investment recently and there are small issues and...
Facebook – The primary dilemma
Today I have got myself sorted and written a guide on Facebook security for our school website. It's one of those jobs I've been putting off but today I bit the bullet and went for it. I'm in a primary school and the Facebook age limit is 13, so I could bury my head...
The Red Fish…
I was convinced I had blogged about this before, but I couldn't find it so I'm doing it now. With our YEar 1s this week we've been looking at Poisson Rouge, this is a fantastic website that children love and some adults can't stand. Why? There are no instructions....
My First Week
Wow...talk about a baptism of fire! I'm writing this after the first week in my new role. It's been a crazy, scary, exciting, tiring week. First, a bit of context. As some of you will know. I've been out of the class for two years. I've been training teachers on how...
But they’re only Year 1’s!
This isn't a blog post about my first few days at my new school, I;m going to wait until Friday to review the week, this is just a short one about the little 'uns. When I was training teachers on how to use the VLE, I used to constantly hear them say 'But I work with...
Pets that blog? Whatever next!
Weirdly, it will take me longer to write this blog post than it did to actually start, plan and finish my latest project! Oh well... @charliedeane has a class bear. Last year he had some adventures with Charlie's class and the children and parents wrote about what he...