I recently bought a new smart phone. My 4-year-old godson picked it up and within seconds he was doing things with it that I didn’t think was possible. The point is that children adapt quickly to digital technology and enjoy learning using any aspect of…
Read moreIf you ever watched a young child pick up a smart phone for the first time, you will know how confident they are and how much they enjoy technology. The point is that children adapt quickly to digital technology and enjoy learning using any aspect…
Read moreCreative Writing to enhance reading Reading provides great scaffolding for learning to write but writing also helps students to further develop their reading skills. It exposes learners to the letter shapes and to spell or write words, they need to sound them out. Remember, our…
Read moreInvestigations and practicals are always popular with students and are essential to skill our future scientists. Unfortunately, they can be time consuming and expensive, the two things teachers are always short of. I would like to share my top tips for practical’s in science. When…
Read moreTo start this blog, I will ask you to search online ‘pictures of children learning in a classroom’. How many of the pictures show a teacher at the front of a class directing learning? How many show children learning without an adult? Why does the…
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