Guided writing on Teacher’s TV

First in a series of three about guided writing.

Marking with Google Docs

Another incredible and inspiring post from Tom Barrett. When will we ever get the chance to catch up? The live marking idea is brilliant.                         Another post today on using GoogleDocs from Mr Kp.              

Government Action Plan for Byron Review

Government publishes Action Plan to implement Byron recommendations. - Press release here. Action Plan Link here. Children and Young Person’s version here.

‘War on failure’ revisited.

Last week’s headlines ‘Minister’s threats put schools in turmoil, say heads.’ have been followed up in today’s Guardian. Original Press release here. ‘Ed Balls vows to help secondary moderns.‘ Yes ‘Grammar’ and ‘Secondary Modern’ are still with us. It would appear that some apologies were in order. ‘Troubled schools: Who is failing whom?‘ by Wendy [...]

Every school should have one – a happiness missionary.

A short extract extract from a Guardian article today. ‘But how? Layard hands me a book. It’s called A Quiet Revolution and it chronicles an initiative at West Kidlington primary school, north of Oxford. There, head teacher Neil Hawkes has sought to instil emotional intelligence in his children by devising a positive value lexicon. This [...]

A Celebration of PPT

| View | Upload your own A great post from Ewan Macintosh on this very subject. Why would you use words on the screen when they do just fine in your mouth?

The Birth of the computer.

A lyrical view of life on earth.

Picturing Excess

Visual mathematics  

Every Primary School should have one – a specialist Maths teacher.

Final report of the independent Review of Mathematics Teaching in Primary School has now been published. Press notice here. All other links to the final report here. Much of it advocates, restates and expands upon the original Numeracy Strategy and I’m sure what many people have been trying to do for longer than that. Can [...]