So the Diamond Jubilee is almost upon us and I know that a lot of schools are celebrating in some way.  For our school it will be in the form of a joint garden party with our infant school that will then turn into an evening organised by the PTA. Our overriding theme is Best [...]

Today in year 5 we have been exploring Zondle this is a website that has games to support learning. The topics range from KS1 to GCSE and cover a wide range of topics and subjects.  It a site that enables teachers and students to create their own topics and questions that can then be added [...]

Last November while attending the UK Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum, I had a conversation with  Daniel Stucke@mrstucke and watched him present about Digital Leaders at his school – he has written about this here.  Talking to him and Kristian Still  led to a conversation with @chrismayoh and @ianaddison about how this idea could also work [...]

What is Learnmeet? This year the Redbridge Games Network are running an event to celebrate  the creative, inspiring and innovative work carried out in schools. But it has a slight twist. We are all used to teachers talking about their work, this time it will be the children in the classes showing off what they [...]

Readers of this blog will be aware that I am a big fan of Mission Explore – we used it last year for the first time in Year 6 and planned local area work and environmental work around the missions. You can see a blog post from last year here. It worked so well that [...]

For the last two days I have had the pleasure of attending the Norfolk ICT conference – a two day event for teachers and leaders within the county with the themes of Aspiration, Inspiration and Collaboration. The day started with Sebastian Gasse outlining what is currently happening in Norfolk schools and presenting the challenges that [...]

As adults it is hard enough to comprehend the news at the moment, as we see images of floods in Australia, Earthquake in New Zealand, revolution in Egypt, Tsunami and nuclear fears in Japan and the latest crisis in Libya. For the children in our classes it must be even more bewildering as they try [...]

At the beginning of this week I headed up to Manchester for #ITmeet and #UKIEF10 – the annual Microsoft Innovative Education Forum. There were many reasons why I wanted to attend but mainly to find out more about how other teachers are innovating and also to meet the many people who I regularly twitter with [...]

This week is our Media week within school- exploring all forms of media within lessons.  Our theme is year 6 is that of remembrance – which links with our work so far on World War II as well as providing information ahead of next weeks Remembrance Day. It started on Monday with groups of children [...]

Last night I braved the rain and headed to Basildon – for the first ever TeachMeet Essex.  For those who do not know what a Teach Meet is – then let two of my favourite people – Tim and Moby tell you here: I was picked to go first by the random fruit machine from [...]