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Teaching Chinese the Easy Way
I have just been interviewing KS1 teachers at RJ Mitchell Primary School in Essex. They are teaching Mandarin, using resources from a company called Dragons in Europe. Th...
Espresso Coding – A New (and Simple!) Way to Teach Computer Coding
“[Espresso Coding] includes a comprehensive scheme of work linked to the 2014 curriculum, 78 step-by-step lessons and tablet-friendly activities, 100s of short, helpful...
In Defence of Carrie and David Grant’s ‘Pop Shop’…
Recently I discovered ‘Carrie and David’s Pop Shop’. For those who haven’t seen it, the show centres around a shop where customers come in and ask Carrie and Dav...
Classical Music for Children
Over the last couple of months we have been working on ideas for a few educational iPad apps and there is one in particular that I am very excited about. The idea is to c...
Halloween Treats to Try at Home
Although Halloween is more of an American tradition and isn't really celebrated in the UK, I thought it might be nice to have a look at Pintrest.com and see what spooky r...
To NATIVITY or not to NATIVITY?
For once; I don’t have a strong opinion. I am a little torn. So, school nativities -what do we think about them really, really? We have Christmas scripts for school...
The Raspberry Pi – A Computer for Only £24!
The Raspberry Pi has been entirely stripped of any unnecessary technology and offers only the bare bones of what we would recognise as a ‘PC’, which is why they have...
Original Thought or ‘Magpied’ Ideas?
I often listen to songs playing on the radio and suddenly recognise a phrase or riff that sounds suspiciously like something from another song. Then my teenage children p...
Summer-Born School Admissions
I didn’t realise that there would be a problem in starting my son in reception the term after his fifth birthday, after all that is compulsory school age and recept...
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