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This academic year, we have been trying to work in a more cross-curricular way. Each term, the staff at our school have chosen a topic which all classes and age groups use as the starting point for their work in different curriculum areas. So far this year we have used these topics as our themes [...]

Phew.. what a week! Over the past seven days, I’ve been busy with an Ofsted inspection at school, our summer fair, and a visit to (including a short presentation at) the Kent ICT conference 2009.
The conference was a chance to learn new ideas from the many speakers and talk to suppliers of educational / ICT [...]

Following my day at the Kent ICT conference yesterday (I’ll write another post about this later), I’ve set up a new ‘Ideas to Inspire‘ presentation… to share games that can be used to enhance learning.

Games to Enhance Learning
Teachers are increasingly using games to develop learning in their classrooms, so this will hopefully be another useful [...]

Following my Prezi presentation to headteachers a few months ago, I was asked to give another presentation about Myst to some staff at my school, as well as teachers from other local schools. Whilst I’m certainly not as experienced as Tim Rylands in using Myst, it’s always nice to be able to share what we’ve [...]

It’s over! This week has been our last week exploring Myst IV as part of our Literacy lessons. It’s been amazing fun and the children have gained SO much from the experience.
I currently have a student teacher in my class, who has been teaching the starter for Literacy this week (10-15 minutes), so I used [...]