Over the next few weeks in Year 6 we are exploring our local environment, this is part of our environmental theme this term, which will also include looking at Global Citizenship and Fairtrade.  But before we go global we have started local. I am always looking for ways to see things differently and approach subjects [...]

My last post on our cars and Karting mentioned the project work that we had set Yr 6 for over the holidays. Instead of our normal – ‘show what you know’ homework that they usually have every fortnight we thought we would extend this to a project. The brief was to demonstrate an element of [...]

On the last day of the Easter Holidays – I was stuck as to what to do for the day with my two children ( aged 4 and 8) – we regularly go up town and visit the local museums etc and the week before we had been tourists in our own area so was [...]

What inspires you? Probably a number of things, what if you had to choose one thing and say in no more than 100 words what it would be? This was the idea that @mediasnackers had! In his words ‘My little personal project  asking 100 people, from 1-to-100 years old, what single thing inspires them and [...]

We have now finished our topic Cars and Karting. The last activity involved the children racing around the playground in go karts – taking pictures and commenting on the races live. The children are now finishing off creating mini videos of the races using movie maker.  It was a great way to round off the [...]

So on to Day 2 and myself and Nic were presenting on behalf of the Redbridge Games Network on the work that is going on in all the schools.  The presentation can be viewed below: We were presenting in the session Learning with Games 2 – chaired by Ollie Bray who also presented.  He talked [...]

So day 1 came to a close with a Teach Meet Game on edition and a Miranda Mod – the one puzzling element of this was why they were both on at the same time? There was some great examples and debate in both – I know as I was popping back and forth between [...]

So still on Day 1 – hope you are all still with me! Next up was Tim Rylands and here my notes did fail me slightly, the reasons: 1 – was totally engaged in the presentation – for those who have not seen Tim present then it is a MUST and 2 – He started [...]

Matt Mason author of  the pirates dilemma was up next opening with the slide – ‘talent borrows, genius steals’ – Oscar Wilde.  He spoke about the fact that information used to be a one way street  now 2 way! Humans are relentless copying machines – we replicate and imitate, the fact that   intellectual property is [...]