Another fun day in Cyprus, this time at the very sunny Ayios Nikolaos Primary School, right on the edge of the border with the Turkish controlled area in the North.
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What a lovely school – full of laughter and smiles. Thank you to Mary Murdoch and her colleagues for a wonderful set of lessons wandering through [...]

Dhekelia Primary (and a joint staff meeting with Ayios Nikolaos staff.) What fun! We did our exploring in the ICT suite today. That gave us the opportunity to record our ideas in digits rather than analogue pencil and paper styleee. Here are some of the ideas that Year 1 had for what might be up [...]

A fun day at Akrotiri School, (and a joint staff meeting with Episkopi) where we looked at visual literacy and also had a session investigating the power of blogging.

Thank you to all the staff and children for a great, fun and challenging time. I am particularly grateful to Kate for her very knowledgeable technical assistance [...]

After a lovely day off on Sunday, when the most energetic activities I took part in were breathing, reading and listening to my iPod, (Reasons to be Cheerful, The best of Ian Dury and the Blockheads being the most uplifting and entertaining listen at the moment!) I had an early start (a VERY early start!) [...]

The blog may go a bit quiet for a few days, depending on internet access, as I am off for a week working for the Service Children’s Education (SCE) team in Cyprus. Cyprus SCE operates 4 primary schools 2 secondary schools across Cyprus which provide schooling for the children of service families [...]

A mightily fun second day at Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Kingswood, Bristol. The children yesterday showed that they have a great sense of humour and imaginative minds. I can see where they got some of it from, as the staff are a fun bunch, up for new challenges. One [...]

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On Wednesday, Sir Ken mentioned those people who don’t seem to have to stop to breathe when they are talking. Circular breathing is an art form! Who can spot the theme this fellow mashes up? (Slightly over long but impressive.) You can even get lessons on how to breathe [...]

Back to "the chalk face" and what I love doing most, lessons with children who are up for these challenges. And they certainly were today at Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Hanham Road, Kingswood, Bristol. Thank you to head teacher Dave Cahill, his colleagues and pupils, for a thoroughly enjoyable romp through the [...]

I was honoured to be asked to give a presentation at the Enhancing Learning and Teaching with ICT conference for Liverpool City Council, Children Services alongside Sir Ken Robinson and Professor Stephen Heppell.
This is the second time I have had the dubious pleasure of following Sir Ken on to a stage to present. I [...]

I found this sign in a train toilet.
I was a little confused because I have to say that, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get the bin off the wall in order to insert it in the lavatory.

I AM a very lucky man. I get a LOT of sunshine blown in my direction with a huge amount of positive feedback to events and happenings. I don’t often like to flag up the delightful comments that people leave about our training days and conferences. However, sometimes one springs out from the crowd because [...]

 
A good response to the new look to the blog. Thank you.
A fun day today working for the Monmouthshire Local Authority at THE HILL EDUCATION & CONFERENCE CENTRE
We had a few folk running the games on their Macs. As a man who “swings both ways” ie who uses both Mac and PC, I [...]