What a lovely way to start a huge year for us: a joyous visit to Hounslow Heath Junior School, Middlesex. Thank you to Ritu Aulakh (Headteacher), and her colleagues for a sunny, laughter filled, beginning of the new year. These people really know how to smile, to laugh, and to rise to challenges. Well done [...]

Thank you to Roger Neilson,of Marden CLC, for his gorgeous feedback on the CLC Conference, last Friday. The originl text is on his blog HERE. On Friday I sat for a couple of hours along with other colleagues being entertained by Tim Rylands and Sarah Neild. The circus was in town and the time passed rapidly [...]

Today, we had the pleasure to present a keynote speech and a workshop for Day Two of the National CLC Conference 2010 at Leeds Metropolitan University’s The Rose Bowl. Day One of the conference included keynotes from Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s Technology Correspondent and John D’abbro, Apple Distinguished Educator presenting on mobile technologies. Over the two days the conference workshops covered four tracks : Teaching [...]

Today we had the pleasure of attending the Rotherham ICT Conference at the Magna Science Adventure Centre , delivering a keynote speech and three workshops.

And now, a short drive across Liverpool, to Liverpool Hope University to present a keynote speech for the Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education (ITTE) Conference.  This year’s summer conference is titled “This time ITs personal”.

A flying visit to Dovedale Junior School, in Liverpool. What a lovely bunch. Smiles all round, from teachers, children and visitors alike.

Savio Salesian College (formerly known as Savio Catholic High School or Savio High School) is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Bootle, Merseyside, England. The school is run by priests and was successful, in early 2006, to secure a bid for specialist Business & Enterprise status. The school has about 820 pupils on roll. The [...]

Hi Tim and Sarah With my Year 2 class, at Otley All Saints, the Wii and African Safari have just come into play (now I have learnt how to link it up!). Having listened to Nicola’s advice, rules of engagement had been negotiated, but nevertheless it proved so exciting that there is plenty of work [...]

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never even be as good as a wall. Wimbledon, the throne of tennis, well underway, and it’s still not rained!! Try a few online games of tennis here, here and here Or get some good coaching videos for young players HERE [...]

I KNOW THAT WE PUT HUNDREDS OF PICS ON THE BLOG, BUT DO TAKE TIME TO HAVE A LOOK AT THESE AS THEY ARE JOYOUS AND SHOW SOME REAL ENGAGEMENT AND THE JOY OF OUR “JOB” Now THAT was fun! A true joy to spend some time at the remarkable Corbets Tey School: A Specialist [...]

Today, we are at the West Berkshire ICT Conference, presenting a keynote on the ideas around “Taking off and flying” at Microsoft office, Reading The conference is an invitation to governors, headteachers and teachers from West Berkshire to share notes and look forward to the coming year. This annual event is organised in order to [...]

Words are powerful. Combine words with music and you can really be flying. Words crackle and fizz when you enhance them with some appropriate atmospheric music or art. As part of our visit to Parklands Primary school in Northampton, we enjoyed the opportunity to experiment with the effect that a soundtrack can have, as an [...]