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The Giraffes tweet with a comedian
At the end of the Spring term in 2010 the Giraffe class were due to cover riddles for the last week (which was only four days long as it finished with Good Friday. This was part of a whole Key Stage...
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Teachread?
I have been meaning to blog about an idea for ‘teachread’ for days. Last week I was lucky enough to run a course for Literacy consultants on the use of picture books in the Primary classrooms and found...
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Google maps
I have been playing with googlemaps for a little while and have tried to see how it could be in a slightly different way. I never cease to be amazed at the ingenuity of fellow practitioners in their...
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Second World War resources
I have been working with some teachers recently looking at supporting them in their planning for forthcoming topics. IWM London I have decided to extend this work to develop a slightly more cross...
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Storytyne
This morning I have been given the wonderful opportunity to attend Storytyne at the Open University in Newcastle. The session was introduced by Tim Rylands (@timrylands) who started the call for...
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Films to support environmental themes
Yesterday I posted a blog giving a lengthy list of books I recommended during my “How to make Book Soup” session and as promised I am now following it up with the list of videos which I gave to the...
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Authors to know
Today I worked with another group of teachers about firing up the teaching of reading. Here are some of my musings on the matter. Many of you may have read the post ‘Promoting Reading’ which includes...
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Music to support environmental themes.
This is my final blog post to support my presentation at the Growing Greener Futures conference which was titled “How to make Book Soup”. I have already listed books and short film clips which could...
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Space the final frontier
CC Malenkov in Exile I was speaking at a CPD session and chatted with a teacher about her forthcoming topic which she was calling “Space – the final frontier” which she was going to work on with her...
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2011
A Happy New Year to all of my regular visitors and any newcomers to my blog. It will be a year which, I suspect, will see a change in the style and tone of my postings. So here we are into the second...
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