Getting started, creatively
Writing is never a chore when students get to be creative. I wish that were true, for some students creative writing is the most daunting prospect on the planet. It is however a great task to set if you want …
Don’t let what you do, get in the way of what you are doing well
I wished I had been able to take a little more time to personally articulate how the first six weeks at The Wellington Academy have been. I know that I will never again get to experience this education adventure. It really has …
Microsoft in education
This post was started on day 2 of BETT and finished on the train on the way home from BETT. I wanted a little time for my thoughts to ‘brew,’ to see if I held the same view a day of …
Time to think this one over
If you wouldn’t wake up early to do it, you probably shouldn’t stay up late to do it. Don’t stay up past your normal bedtime to do something that you wouldn’t be willing to wake up earlier than your normal …
Best of BETT
There seems to be an awful lot robotics on show here at BETT – from Lego to mechanics to these programmable funky fellas. Aldebaran Robotics Add to that, whole bunch of hardware (screens in particular, whiteboards a plenty), a …
BETT Show Day #1
Here we are at the start of day 2 reflecting on day 1. The Learn Live theatre was packed for BYOD, rammed for David Roger’s @davidErogers guerrilla geography and smiling warmly as Charlotte Beckhurst demonstrated how her Y1 primary class had …
iSAMS – first impressions
December was a significant month at The Wellington Academy. The decision had been made to reconstruct our curriculum timetable and move to a new Management Information System. Fulfilling one of these tasks alone, would have been challenging enough, but undertaking …
Inspiration at the station
On arriving at the Excel Arena yesterday I took this photograph on the way in. Not a bad way to start your lesson. It’s part of the HP branding so once inside the BETT show I found the HP stand …