In 2011 I was detached from the Royal Air Force to serve in a Royal Artillery unit at Joint Operating Base BASTION in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The role of the unit was to protect BASTION against attacks from the Taliban, mainly using the professional insurgent’s weapon of choice, the 107mm rocket. The 107 is a… Continue reading The Culture of Fear 2.0
Being in a small school has its own particularities compared to my old setting. Combining classes for things (all staff had a meeting with the HT, after an observation, last week) is fairly normal so we have to take a flexible approach to things. However this can be done without compromising educational outcomes in anyway… Continue reading Why we need to play more…
3 years ago I set of on this amazing journey to become a teacher. I left my comfortable life behind and decided that this was what I really wanted to do. Never before have I felt this sense of drive but I am now in a position to really focus what I want to achieve… Continue reading My New Year’s Revolution
Another inspiring day on Twitter yesterday (in between the inevitable and constant trad v prog arguments and a diatribe about MCS) in which the hashtag #MPTAs appeared. I’m always one to jump on a bandwagon, especially one like this, so here goes with my personal list of edu-twitterers that have inspired me to try and… Continue reading My Personal Twitter Awards…
I’ve been inspired today, by a conversation on Twitter, to look at a number of resources and how they have influenced my practice this year so far. So here goes with my top ten edu apps and sites of 2016 Seesaw – This has to be one of the best edu-apps there is at the… Continue reading And the winner is…
Sometimes it is the simplest of tech that can have the most impact. This term I have been looking at ways of embedding our iPads into classrooms and encouraging staff to dabble in technology. The first thing to make our lives easier was to burn all of our assembly CDs onto iTunes. This meant we… Continue reading The magic of tech in the primary classroom..
https://twitter.com/MrGPrimary/status/796451464080224257 Last week I ran a Twitter poll, prompted by something I saw in an edu chat reference SEND children. However I feel a lot of people confused my question with working practices instead of looking at the question from a data protection angle. In my previous career I had, at times, responsibility for… Continue reading Data protectors?
Last term I was lucky enough to be given a couple of these little fellas to play with. If you aren’t aware of them, these are called Ozobots and they are pretty amazing. I’m always looking for things to fit the “control and stimulate external systems” part of the primary computing curriculum and these seem… Continue reading I’ve met the future…
This half term I have been doing a lot of reflecting on my practice. I’m now in term 3 of my NQT year, am getting some wonderful training from the Three Rivers TSA, feel a real part of the team in my new school and seem to be settling into my new life as… Continue reading What I’ve learned this half term holiday.
This morning this interesting tweet popped up on my Twitter feed… Is it possible for schools to buy one app and share across all iPads without buying multiple copies? — Rob Smith (@redgierob) October 15, 2016 After many years of being sceptical (before I became a teacher) about the value of tablet technology, and in… Continue reading How long before we get caught out?
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