Day 1 of the Nurturing Narrative Special Schools Event, at the East Malling Conference Centre, in Kent.
This event is designed to look at “inspirational ways of motivating students who have significant variations in their levels of communication, behaviour and learning needs bring together colleagues from a broad range of settings: Warmstone PRU, Harbour School, Foxwood [...]

A fun day of lessons at Binfield Primary School, Binfield, Bracknell Forest. Another lovely day, full of more laughter. Thank you to Jill Hanson, her colleagues and pupils for a thoroughly enjoyable wander through the world of words.

It is always a joy to watch growded-ups and children, take off and fly, with speaking and listening, [...]

Here’s a different way of making a stop frame animation.
It is a good way of showing that you really do need to plan before you start.
Imagine the prep for this short film.

Wow!
What a varied and wonderful week! Northumberland, Darlington Birmingham, Newport.
And, what a way to end the trip, with a day spent alongside colleagues and pupils at Milton Infants School, Newport, South Wales.

A very enjoyable day in Carmel RC College Darlington, leading their “Creative ICT in Teaching Conference”.
The aim of the conference is to raise awareness of the use of gaming, Web2.0 technologies, and the associated teaching techniques, that will engage learners through ICT. There was a main focus on English and literacy, but with transferable skills [...]

Today we are at The Alnwick Garden for Northumberland’s “Be Creative in English” Conference – an inpressive setting,  including acres of fascinating plants, water sculptures, an infamous Poison Garden and one of the world’s largest wooden tree houses.
The conference was introduced by Lynne Swainston, Primary Strategy Manager. Lynne beautifully read the poem ‘Telephone Conversation’ by Wole Soyinka , [...]

Up North, in fact, as far North as it is possible to get in England, before heading over the border in to Scotland. The first of two days in Northumberland.
Today, we are working alongside the staff and children from Eastlea Primary School, in Cramlington, joined by visiting colleagues from across the authority, for a day [...]

Day Two at Cadoxton Primary School, an INSET day working with the teachers and staff of Cadoxton, joined by 19 delegtes from 12 visiting schools: Gwenfo Primary, Romilly Primary,  Eagleswell Primary, Gladstone Primary, Lakeside Primary, High Street Primary, Fairwater Primary, Ninian Park Primary, Llanfair Primary  and Palmerston Primary.

A relatively short journey for us today, to spend the first of a two day visit to Cadoxton Primary School in Barry, South Wales.

A short while back, we had a bit of a panic when the blog went a.w.o.l for a while. Strange 403 ERROR messages meant that we couldn’t get in to write it, answer comments, or receive messages.
How reassuring it is, to have people around you who know what to do.
Twitter has proved to be a [...]

We have used quite a few collaborative drawing applications with a range of children around the UK and beyond.
It is always worth trying them out, as some are a little flakey.
Scribblar is one that works well in my experience. Simple, effective online collaboration.

Have you had a look at Scimorph yet? An interesting site,  designed to encourage pupils in Years 6 and 7 to be inspired and excited by science.
This will capture some attention!
Scimorph uses ‘augmented reality’ technology to present Key Stage 2 science topics in a fun and interactive way to support teaching and learning both at [...]