Class Dojo – Behaviour management tool
As a SEN teacher I am always looking for something to ‘hook’ the children into behaving in and out of classroom. Around a year ago I did some work with Trilby, our training partner, Ben and Neil...
View ArticleTiggly Numbers
I recently purchased and posted about Tiggly Shapes, here. I took this set to school and showed the EYFS team and the teams in the SLD classes, they were as excited as me. It was decided to raid the...
View ArticleOrbit & SeeSaw Apps – Children’s learning journals
The nature of a lot of the class assessment within our school is photograph and video based observations. Historically we used to take photographs, print them out and attach a post-it note observation...
View ArticlePingPong – SPOT networking
I, along with many colleagues up and down the land, regularly use small A4 size whitebaord’s for children to express answers to questions and show their learning in the classroom, especially during the...
View ArticleNumeracy App Workflow
After reading an excellent post by ADE Marc Faulder(@MarcWithersey) about a workflow that he employs in his early years classroom for maths journals, here, it made me think about the workflows that...
View ArticleSafer Internet Day 2015 App Session!
Safer Internet Day 2015 (SID2015), has been and seen my annual e-safety assembly in school, something that is hard to ‘pitch’ at the right level, as the children differ in ability from low P levels...
View ArticleInteractive Communication (PECS) Books on iPads.
Lets start at the very beginning, for those that don’t know PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) or Picture Communication is a system used for children with additional needs, who find it...
View ArticleApple Education Resources
Apple have announced the launch of their ‘For Educators‘ page on the App Store. This page curates content from a variety of sources including Apps, iBooks and iTunes U courses. Having all this content...
View ArticleDifferentiation by App
When I launched our Apple Regional Training Centre (RTC), whilst presenting (for the first time) a phrase just fell out of my mouth that I thought must have been mentioned by someone before me. I...
View ArticleMaking iPad music using Garageband
During the Apple Distinguished Educator Institute that I was lucky enough to attend last summer we attended a workshop that went into some great ideas for iMovie, Final Cut, Garageband and Logic. We...
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