Get Them Thinking
First we had ‘Proving Pupil Progress’ and now I am back tracking to a post I just didn’t get finished, entitled ‘Get Them Thinking.’ Perhaps more relevant to my English and PSRE classes, some of these ideas are applicable to …
Vulnerable Groups – Parental Engagement
Following on from Claire Gadsby’s seminar on Friday, I share these important statistics, just released by the DfE on ‘Looked after Children.’ 65,520 children were looked after at 31 March 2011, an increase of two per cent on 2010 and …
Effort and Failure
Effort brings with it the risk of failure. @LearningSpy Question is, how do we encourage our students to invest more effort at the expense of even greater failure? Mobile post. [qr_code_display]
Proving Pupil Progress with Claire Gadsby
A morning of performance management interviews was followed by a short coffee break, 2 minutes basking in the amazing late autumn heatwave, before all staff made their way to the main hall to take part in Claire Gadsby’s ‘Demonstrating Pupil …
Questing on a Friday Afternoon
After experiencing a few difficulties getting access to IT on a Friday afternoon I decided take the 18 students I teach to the library, after all Quest, at least playing Quest, is reading. We installed the client version of Quest …
FREE Posters
Every ICT suite, in every school is subject the ‘rules.’ Here at Hamble Community Sports College, we are no different. Over the summer our very gifted IT Technician created personalised ‘our IT suite rules’ posters for each member of the …