January 21, 2016
by Jean
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BBC Radio 2 launched the annual ‘500 words’ writing competition for children this week. You access the website here. It is for children aged between 5 and 15 in two groups – 5 to 9 and 10 to 13. There … Continue reading
January 6, 2016
by Wendy
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Are you or a colleague interested in undertaking HLTA preparation and assessment? The next Northants cohort starts on 27th Jan. at the University of Northampton. The next Leicester/Leicestershire cohort starts at Forest Lodge Education Centre on 1st Feb. Applicants from … Continue reading
January 5, 2016
by Jean
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During February and March our online course ‘Teaching with Tablets‘ will be running. This course is free to anyone to sign up for and take part in. Below are some details: Welcome to our 5-week Teaching with Tablets course. This … Continue reading
December 18, 2015
by Jean
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Over the last few weeks the FDLT Y2 groups have been using animation, greenscreen and video editing apps to create short films. This year we used the animation app ‘iMotion’ to make the animations. This is a relatively simple to … Continue reading
December 1, 2015
by Jean
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Some more episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series The Educators are currently being broadcast. The episodes in this series listed so far are: 1.Character Lessons The episode is about the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). This is an American … Continue reading
November 26, 2015
by Jean
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Routledge have made this ebook freely available to download. If you sup[port pupils in literacy or English this might be of interest to you. All you have to do is fill in an onlione form and you will be sent … Continue reading
November 3, 2015
by Jean
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This week the second series of ‘The Secret Life of…’ starts. Last time it was focused on four year olds. This time it is extended to five and six year olds as well. If you watched the programmes last year you … Continue reading
October 21, 2015
by Jean
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You may have noticed that in mid September the ‘Commission on Assessment Without Levels: final report’ was published. It can be accessed here. At this same link you can access two videos where John McIntosh CBE, Chair of the Commission … Continue reading
October 6, 2015
by Jean
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October is the month of the The Big Draw in the UK and all over the world. ‘The Big Draw is the world’s biggest drawing festival with thousands of enjoyable, and mainly free, drawing activities which connect people of all ages … Continue reading
October 2, 2015
by Jean
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Every day a new picture is revealed on the Pobble 365 website. It is run by the very popular Lend me Your Literacy (LMYL) website. It emerged from Jonny Davies’s experience as a classroom teacher – he explains that he would … Continue reading