Ever feel driven to slip back in to your old ways and print some worksheets? Christmas colouring-itis taking over in your classroom because you’re just to tuckered to do anything else? Try this indispensable utility that might get your widdlies doing something different. A powerful resource and a money saver too on those penny hungry [...]

We have been using a lot of collaborative tools with teachers and children around the country. Here is an interesting one for use in an adult professional context or with a class. There are so many collaborative tools that students can use to interact and create masterpieces in many setting, genres and styles. Etherpad has [...]

Following the launch day of The Oracy Into Writing Project at Rhondda Heritage Park on the 18th November, we were invited today to Penyrenglyn Community Primary School in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taff, to work with the pupils and staff, and visiting colleagues from Parc Primary, Cefn Primary School, Darran Park  Primary, Blaengwawr Primary, Llwynypia Primary,  Glynhafod Junior, Cwmaman [...]

BBC.co.uk have a great little site, called Pinball, that is designed to help pupils throw their ideas around in some simple, yet fun, ways. A few good little ideas on here. One of them, is a great way of making a one armed bandit which selects from your choice of text and uploaded images. Quick and [...]

IdoDogTricks is a bit of subtle advertising but you can avoid that if you want, and it could be great fun. A simple idea, perhaps, but… how about getting a younger age group or “struggling” older group, to give simple instructions to our pet pooch. TYPE IN a command and see what happens… sit, roll [...]

Here’s a fascinating film that gets you questioning what our impressions of history are based upon. We find an artifact and put our impressions upon it. What is fact? What is fiction? What is confusion of the two? What is based on flimsy, half forgotten evidence? Useful in history lessons in the build up to [...]