September 18, 2020
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This week the National Literacy trust launched two new online resources to support families and educators. The first is called Virtual School Library. You can access it here. Each week the Virtual School Library will introduce a children’s author or … Continue reading
June 3, 2020
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As you keep up to date with the news you will no doubt be considering how we in education can work for a more fair and equal society. In classrooms using children’s literature as the basis for conversations is a … Continue reading
May 12, 2020
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Here is a Padlet with a number of free training and CPD resources for people who want to be or are Teaching Assistants.
May 7, 2020
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Save Our Street Trees is delighted to be taking part in the first-ever virtual Urban Tree Festival – to celebrate our beautiful urban trees. Between May 16 and 24, Save Our Street Trees – Northampton will be asking people to … Continue reading
April 19, 2020
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As we move into the summer term and continue to educate many pupils at home the amount of resources to support and inspire learning at home as exploded. In the previous blog post I shared information about two national resources … Continue reading
April 19, 2020
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Tomorrow two new national support resources for learning at home are being launched. If you are providing learning for your pupils at home or supporting your own children you might find these useful. The first is by BBC Bitesize. This … Continue reading
April 1, 2020
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Here’s the April calendar for happiness, particularly useful for us all at the moment.
March 27, 2020
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Earlier in March FDLT Y2 students had the opportunity to explore augmented and virtual reality and consider how it could support learning now and in the future. The UoN students had a go at using the VIVE virtual reality headset … Continue reading
March 17, 2020
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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 … Continue reading
January 30, 2020
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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 … Continue reading