When to Abandon Lessons Plans
The 7a to Hillsborough The first lesson of a new scheme of work. A shiny new Year 7 Scheme of Work and new topic, Narrative Poetry. We had organised a few students transfers and it was on with the work. …
Reflections of a leader
Reflections on leadership, teaching, learning, assessment and the wider education of young people
Microsoft – Innovative Education Forum
The week I travelled to Manchester to the attend the Microsoft Innovative Education Forum (IEF). In spite of the long journey and poor driving conditions, I highly recommend you bookmark next years event in your diary. Let me explain why. …
Low Profile for a Good Reason
For the past few day I have kept a relatively low blog profile. Posting here and there or post left in draft format but for a good reason, my wife gave birth of our second child, Freya, last Wednesday. I …
Content Control
Content control or filtering of the internet in schools remains a hot topic of debate within schools. Not just for LEA administrators, school leaders and Network Managers but believe me, for the students. Frustrated by the disparity of home and …
FreeRice 2.0
Moving to the English Department this academic year I was looking for a range of English learning activities, spelling tools and edugames to provide transition activities at the start or end of the lesson. This ‘need’ brought me back to …
Parental Engagement is More than Data
Reading Government papers on parental engagement this afternoon, I am frustrated by the frequent omission of students in, what appears to be a superficial, data driven process. Schools post information, parents/guardians receive information, possibly converse, and that constitutes parental engagement? Finally, a post written …
11b3 English
This afternoon I ‘taught ‘my first English lesson with 11b3. It is a small group, with a broad ability range. When time permits, I am going to openly share my teaching and learning experiences with this group. In doing so …
Great quotes about Learning and Change.
Earlier today I set myself a challenge. To upload an image to the FLICKR Group Great quotes about Learning and Change. I have used a number of the images on our screen saver at school and felt it was time …