A truly fun-filled, laughter-soaked day at Great Bedwyn CE Primary School.
We get to work in a huge variety of venues – from to enormous conference halls, to small classrooms. Today, however, was one of the most original: we took the staff in to the ICT suite, a long “railway carriage-like” room. A lovely setting to take [...]

“Tim returned to our school today and worked with pupils from Y 1-6, showing the staff how his ideas could be put into practice. The pupils were all enthusiastic and engrossed as they explored the landscapes from Myst. Everyone shared laughter, imagination and time disappeared too soon.
One of our Year One boys never contributes to class discussions and [...]

I was honoured to be asked to give the opening keynote presentation at today’s Eastern Region Gifted & Talented Partnership 3rd Regional Conference at Newmarket Racecourse Conference Centre.

The Eastern Region Gifted & Talented Partnership comprises eleven local authorities in Eastern England together with local HEIs and other agencies. It provides a termly newsletter sent to [...]

The rain could not dampen the warm welcome we were given as we arrived at Coed-y-lan Primary School, Pontypridd today.

We travel through many different landscapes but find quite a few coincidences and links which remind us that it is a small world (I wouldn’t like to have to paint it though!!).
For example, as we arrived this [...]

Thank you to Katie Lowe, deputy head, and David O’Brian, head teacher of St Teresa’s Catholic Junior School, Liverpool for hosting a  thoroughly enjoyable day.  The strong decision to pair up a training day on Ros Wilson’s ’The Big Write’ with a practical, hands on, imaginative exploration of stimulus resources, really paid off. The staff seem fired up and [...]

Rebecca Shipton has kindly offered to share her thoughts on our day at  Springwood Heath Primary School, Liverpool:
“Having been an active participant on Day 1 yesterday at Parklands, I was looking forward to Day 2 with excitement and a little trepidation, mostly because being a Year 6 teacher, I rarely come into contact with ‘littlies’. [...]

Today was delightful. We had the pleasure of working with the staff and children at  Springwood Heath Primary School, Liverpool. A special place to be.
During their inspection in November 2007, Ofsted Inspectors stated that Springwood Heath was a school that gave children an outstanding level of care – and that was clear to us as we explored the [...]

We paid a return visit to the Parklands City Learning Centre, Liverpool today, this time to work alongside Sheila O’Keeffe, Education Consultant,  Maureen Hints, Learning Network Director and others who have organised a 2 day event for teachers. Today staff from the South Liverpool and G10 networks experienced how to inspire children to write through the use of Myst and [...]

A lovely welcome at  Booker Avenue Infant School. This is a school full of smiling faces. The staff, the children and the walls glow.
We spent the day in the company of three Year 2 classes, joined by colleagues from across all the age ranges in the school. Staff modelled, scribed, scribbled, drew and generally mucked [...]

Our invitation to spend six days working in Cyprus with the staff and children of the SCE (Service Children’s Education), proved to be one of the most enjoyable, challenging yet rewarding, creative experiences we have had the priviledge to be involved in.
As well as developing and extending the use of creating English across many areas of the [...]

Three very rewarding days at St John’s School here in Cyprus. Monday started with a presentation to the English and ICT departments and neighbouring Episkopi and Akrotiri primary schools.

Thank you to Amanda, Dave, Lia, Cynthia, Athy, Judith, Charles, Jane, Nigel, John, Zoe, Helen, Liz and all the other colleagues who joined us for a buzzing, [...]

Working at King Richard School, Cyprus has been a delight, with new challenges for all.
Working alongside the secondary staff and pupils from Year 7, we have been investigating the worlds of words and the power of blogging.
First off, we entered one of the Myst landscapes and immersed ourselves in the incredible realistic and inspiring environment.
We [...]