Our last day in this session in Cornwall, and what a true delight! The students from Year 7, at Redruth school, really did pull out all the stops. We spent a whole day creating a glorious mix of the analogue and digital magic. As the day was so full, we are grateful to Jay Coleman, [...]

Loving a bit of creativity in Cornwall! Sarah and I travel with a huge amount of kit too, ready for any eventuality. Laptops, cameras, microphones, projectors, enough wires and gubbins to equip a T.V or sound recording studio… and more. How much fun it is when we get to work with so many children who [...]

Aren’t some of the error messages computers churn out, a little confusing? (This one came up today). Some times they contain delightful spelling mistakes too: “An error has arroased” being one of my favourites. In trying to get used to the countless error messages that come up in Vista, I have frequently wanted to make [...]

A dash across the county to Redruth School for a delightful afternoon with Year 6 pupils from a further 5 primary schools: Treleigh CP School, Pennoweth CP School, Lanner CP School, Treirgie Junior School and Stithians CP School. Thank you to Tracey Cutts, from the English and Media faculty, here at Redruth School, for recording [...]

The start of our three day visit to Cornwall as part of our extended creativity project with Cornwall Education Authority, and this morning we were at Camborne Science and Community College Our ‘guest blogger’  Ben Davies from Roskear Primary, who had been involved in training last year, and has a great understanding that it is NOT [...]

After a brilliant and energetic half term, of canoeing, kayaking, climbing, abseiling, caving and more, we made our way to Camps Hill Community Primary School in Stevenage. Camps Hill follow the International Primary Curriculum. “The principle of the IPC is to focus on a combination of academic, personal and international learning for children worldwide, combined [...]

We started our two day visit to Redwell Junior School with a day of demo lessons with 2 classes of Year 3′s, 2 classes of Year 5′s, 2 classes of Year 6′s, their teachers and visiting teachers from neighbouring schools. We are, more often than not, helping schools develop their writing, speaking and listening, creativity… [...]

The King John School is a 9-13 middle school situated in a Thrapston, East Northamptonshire. Karen Harrison, the acting deputy head of the school, invited us here a couple of months ago, saying, “We are really keen to improve writing skills in the school and would love it if you could help kick this off [...]

Following yesterday’s training day, we were today at South Sefton City Learning Centre with the PEPS team, and the CLC’s team – both very impressive TEAMS! Special thanks to Barry “Island” Ravenscroft, the centre’s director, for running with every idea and making technical magic happen – split screen projections, filming, video conferencing cameras and a delicious, [...]

The next leg of what seems to be a grand, national tour and Sarah and I have raced through the snow to Aintree Racecourse, for the first of two days with the Primary Excellence Partnership team in Sefton. (The Grand National. Gerrit?!) A big thank you to Rupa Frain, PEPS Director, Michelle Pearson, PEPS Literacy Consultant and [...]

The blog has been quiet recently due to some delightful weather, (There’s snow business like snow business!) and a few techie-troubles. But… We made our way through some very deep snow and treachorous conditions to sunny Brighton, which is Bright’n sunny, and completely free of snow, now. The conditions in the Thistle Hotel on the [...]