A blog for students on the FDLT and BALT courses at the University of Northampton

at Leicester and UN

November 28, 2016
by Jean
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Teaching Assistants and School Inspection Update.

Last week the latest issue of the School Inspection Update was issues by OFSTED. It referred to the deployment and use of Teaching Assistants (TAs) and this information may be of interest to you. It draws on newer research published … Continue reading

September 5, 2016
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Setting up folders your computer

If you are joining FDLT year 1 in September you might be thinking about getting organised. Most of you will be studying the five modules shown to the right. You will be introduced to our virtual learning environment, NILE, where … Continue reading

July 18, 2016
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Summer homework

As schools break up for the summer thought will be given to encouraging children to keep learning over the holidays. Local libraries run the Summer Reading Challenge each year and this year it is part of the year long celebration … Continue reading

February 2, 2016
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Spot the station!

Following on from last week’s post about Tim Peake’s mission on the International Space Station (ISS) from this week we have the opportunity to view the ISS as it moves across the UK each day. The NASA website ‘Spot the … Continue reading

January 29, 2016
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Tim Peake – Principia Mission

On the 15th December 2015 Tim Peake left the earth in the Soyuz rocket for a six month stay on the International Space Station. You can see some highlights of the launch day in this video: The name of this … Continue reading

December 18, 2015
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FDLT animates!

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

October 2, 2015
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Pobble365

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

September 7, 2015
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Mind Changers

Carol Dweck and Growth Mindset (Radio 4 Wednesday 12th August and on iplayer and BoB) ‘Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series which examines the work of the people who have changed our understanding of the human mind. This … Continue reading

June 11, 2015
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#ForestFlight

On Monday June 22nd from 5pm until 7.30pm the Northampton Inspire network is holding its final event of the academic year. The theme is ‘Forest Flight’ – and we will be exploring the physical and digital world across the curriculum … Continue reading

May 3, 2015
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Let’s Teach Computing!

From May the 11th you can sign up to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called Let’s Teach Computing. Here are the details: Details Let’s Teach Computing is a Department for Education funded MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).  It is … Continue reading