13 March 2010 0 Comments

Myst – Gathering Ideas for Future Adventures

Myst – Gathering Ideas for Future Adventures

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 [...]

19 September 2009 2 Comments

Teachmeet Sussex Kent ‘09

Teachmeet Sussex Kent ‘09

Last night was the first Teachmeet for Sussex and Kent. It took place at The Hop Farm in Paddock Wood and was a fantastic evening. I hope that I’ve managed to collate everyone’s ideas, presentations and links below… if I’ve missed anything, please let me know and I’ll update the post.

Mark Warner (twitter) – Using Memiary [...]

9 September 2009 6 Comments

Running an ICT club

Running an ICT club

This post was originally written for an article for Kent’s Extranet magazine… read it here.
For the past few years, I’ve been running after school ICT clubs with our Year 5 and 6 children. During these clubs, my aim has been to give children the opportunity to use technology in ways that they might not be [...]

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3 July 2009 0 Comments

Games to Enhance Learning

Games to Enhance Learning

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 [...]

8 May 2009 0 Comments

Returning to Myst in Literacy – Final Week

Returning to Myst in Literacy – Final Week

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 [...]

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