Here’s the April calendar for happiness, particularly useful for us all at the moment.
April 1, 2020
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March 20, 2020
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Supporting parents at home with children
March 17, 2020
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Learning at home
If you are a TA or HLTA you might be involved preparing work packs or ideas to support learning at home in the coming weeks or months. On the Padlet below are and links to activities and resources that you might find useful. These include:
- Non digital resources that can be photocopied and handed out to pupils. Some of these are in formats that can be used as a model and applied to a range of subjects and age groups.
- Digital tools that are already free or are offering temporary free access.
- Advice about safeguarding, planning and news.
It will be important to consider the practicalities of staff, parents and pupils learning to use new tools in short period of time. It could be more user friendly to stick with whatever they are familiar with.
February 26, 2020
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Here is an interesting read:
25 Years of Teaching Fads and Bad Educational Science
Teacher Toolkit (2016) 20 years of educational fads. [online] Available from: https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/w_1245+q_glossy+ret_img+to_webp/https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-13.42.58.png [Accessed 26th February 2020].
February 20, 2020
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Congratulations to our graduates, 2020!
Congratulations to all of our graduates!
Last Sunday we were delighted to see so many of our FDLT and BALT students graduate from their studies, along with some former BALT graduates completing their journey to QTS and being presented with their PGCEs.
It was wonderful for us as staff that one of our students, Grace Murphy, made the student vote of thanks.
Despite wild and wintry weather it was a lovely ceremony for graduates and their families.
January 30, 2020
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Animating science!
Over the last few weeks the FDLT Year 1 students have been making stop motion animations.
They used the app ‘StopMotionStudio’ on ipads to make their animations, and the app ‘iMovie’ to edit them, adding sounds and music.
The students chose an aspect of the science PoS to explain in their animations, using visuals and words to explore ideas such as how water is used by plants; seasonal change; the cycel of the moon and many more.
You can watch the animations on this YouTube channel:
November 25, 2019
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Resource for study
As you work on your degree you might find this website useful:
The website is a comprehensive resource of educational legislation and commentary on the political context that surrounds it. If you need to find out where an initiative or approach came from or track back to see how it developed over time you can do this here.
September 30, 2019
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What can we learn from education in Finland?
When you are examining the curriculum, what is taught and how learning is organised, making international comparison can be useful.
In this article in the guardian, journalist Sally Weale discusses the approach to the curriculum and learning in Finland.
As a university student you would want to use links, names and titles to track back to the original sources used if you were considering using this material in an assignment.
This could lead you to look up:
PISA
Pasi Sahlberg
John Jerrim / IOE blog
Finnish National Agency for Education.
Reading these sources could lead you to some useful reading but you should also search in NELSON for additional academic material.
September 23, 2019
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National Poetry Day coming soon.
On Thursday 3rd October it is National Poetry Day in the UK. There are lots of resources here to support you in doing something at school. You can see them here.
There are resources, poems, events, as well as a YouTube competition, information about BBC Radio and local poets and research about young people’s attitudes to poetry.
The education resources can be found here.
There is a Toolkit for schools, competitions and resources for #MyNPDPoem.
There is a collection of poems around the theme “truth” to inspire poem writing and you can send away for resources to use in school on the day here.
There are other useful resources for primary and secondary pupils on the BBC Live Lessons website here.
References:
National Poetry Day (2019) Website banner. [online] Available from: https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NPD-2019-Website-Banner.png [Accessed 19/09/2019].
National Poetry Day (2019) Education image. [online] Available from: https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NPD-2019-Website-Banner.png [Accessed 19/09/2019].
September 9, 2019
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