September 3, 2015
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Boosting your child’s IQ (Wednesday September 2nd at 9am and available on radio 4, iplayer and BoB) Programme description: ‘As summer ends and children trade flip flops for school shoes, Mariella Frostrup starts the new academic year exploring what can … Continue reading
August 17, 2015
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The Educators To start you thinking about education you could find this series of radio programmes on the BBC website at this link: The Educators In each of the eight programmes Sarah Montague interviewed a contemporary educator about their ideas. … Continue reading
July 6, 2015
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Recently we concluded the curriculum module on the FDLT year 2 course. During this module we had explored the teaching of discrete subjects; making connections between subjects and the aspects of the curriculum that are not named as subjects. In … Continue reading
June 11, 2015
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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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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
April 30, 2015
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Over the last few weeks I have been teaching a session about using images to support learning and teaching to FDLT Y1. we have explored searching for images online and issues of safety, copyrightt and citation / referencing. One useful … Continue reading
March 26, 2015
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Next Monday (30th March) there is a programme on Radio 4 called ‘Minecraft: more than a game’. Its on at 11am and than available on iplayer and on Box of Broadcasts if you a university student. In this programme the … Continue reading
March 17, 2015
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On Friday March 20th (if it is not too cloudy) we will be able to view a solar eclipse. An solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the earth and the sun blocking the sun’s light from reaching the … Continue reading
March 10, 2015
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On Monday 23rd March we will be holding our next Northampton Inspire Network Meeting. This will take place in the Sulgrave building – go to reception and you will be directed from there. it will start at 4.30pm although refreshments … Continue reading
March 6, 2015
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Over the last few weeks on the One to One programme on BBC Radio 4 John Harris, a journalist on The Guardian, has been talking about autism. His son is autistic, in these two programmes he talks with an expert … Continue reading