It’s been a busy term – looking at this blog and realising that it’s been over two months since I last updated it with work that we have been doing in class, so here goes! Within Year 5 last term we have been studying the Tudors and as part of this work our corridor became [...]

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 [...]

So another school year is underway and once again the use of games within the classroom is ongoing.  We have a set of games that have been trialled within classes and continue to be used to promote skills across the curriculum.  These are: Dr Kawashima Brain Training and Professor Layton on the DS Wild Earth [...]

We have been using the fantastic Wild Earth African Safari for a couple of weeks in Year 6.  I have had this game at home for a while and both my children love it – Tim Rylands spoke about the use of it at Hand Held Learning Conference in October last year. Other teachers who [...]

Narrative writing this week in Year 6 – a big thank you to @primarypete_ for the ideas and inspiration for my planning this week.  He presented a video at Teachmmet #etru on Wii love learning. “Wii Love Learning” Mario Kart from Peter Richardson on Vimeo. His prezi was brilliant on how he has used Mario [...]

So began Week 2 – Week 1 had been a huge success and the children could not wait to get back into the game. There is a lot of game play with this game and a lot of reading! Which is good – but in some cases may not hold the interest of the children.  [...]

After yesterday and realizing that the guesthouse was locked – we loaded the game again. The children immediately suggested that we have a look around and find someone to talk to – we did Dan a forest ranger. Dan explained a little bit about Lake Juliet to the class and we had to use the [...]

Loading the game for the third day – talk amongst the class was all still of what has happened to Ashley’s mum! We rejoined Ashley on the bus – as she steps off the bus, she gets hit from behind by a mysterious figure, we see a car drive away and Ashley running off after [...]

Last week all Year 4 classes used the Wii and the ‘game’ Mario and Sonic at the Olympics – this game was used to tie in with the topic The Ancient Greeks that the children are currently studying.  A couple of weekends ago, myself and the year 4 team leader sat down with the game [...]

Another code R- is a game for the Wii, it is a mystery novel which you work through to solve the mystery.  Meeting characters and deciding where to go in the game and what to pick up. When I first saw the game in the Summer, I immediately thought about using it with Year 6 [...]