Boys achievement
Sticking on the ‘narrowing the gap’ agenda I created a poster for the staffroom and staff work areas. Again, help yourself. The resoultion is should be sufficient for an A4 poster. The quote is adapted from the most recent DFE …
23 Strategies for raising boys’ achievement with and without Triptico
We are just about to launch Triptico Plus to the schools teaching community. Despite just a handful of teachers being formally introduced to Triptico (note the lack of plus), I am not surprised by how many staff have ushered in the new networked Triptico Plus version complete …
Self assessment with NAPE
A teacher (at least I think it was a teacher) posted a photo of an AFL poster on Twitter. You ‘like’ it, so you save it, store it, bookmark it, tag or flag it. Sadly, far too often one’s cup over …
Office 365 first look
First, I want to thank @anthonynneke at Microsft, for all his support getting us to the starting. Nothing is ever too much trouble for Anthony. Plus extra Twitter chip-ins from @SeanOfTheNorth (Microsoft Business Manager for Schools North) and @jamesbmarshall The @Office365 Education guy at …
Live poetry production
After recapping our OARSIM acronym, the class are exploring and writing poetry with Concrete Poetry lets you choose or draw a picture on the screen, then drag and drop the words to fill in it that the tool gives you. …
Roaring success
Word Tamer is an interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories.” It is quite literally a carnival of literary adventures. The site helps students create and develop new writing possibilities along the usual lines but with added verve …
Making good better
Leadership coaching – yesterday morning and later that s afternoon, I was able to benefit from not one but two fast paced, frank and insightful leadership coaching session with Tony Stephens. Tony doesn’t mix his metaphors, or talk in edubabble. It plan …