Please take a few minutes to read the information below which is background information to a big problem we have at Heathfield at the minute. About 3.5 years ago, the school took out a lease for our ICT suite hardware which was for 3 years and for 3 payments. The school sourced the hardware through [...]
April 19, 2010
A Handheld Dilemma
My Headteacher trusts me! How do I know? Well, I know because after following a discussion on Twitter, my Headteacher told me that if I felt that attending both the Handheld Learning Conference in October 2010 and the bMobLE on 20th May 2010 would help develop a long term plan for technology at HeathfieldCPS, I [...]
February 28, 2010
Heathfield’s Bus
“Trust me! In three years time, people will be coming to HeathfieldCPS from all over the country to see what we have done to improve!” These are the words I am desperate to convey to the staff at Heathfield Primary School. I have been Deputy Head Teacher at Heathfield since September 2009 and have loved [...]
January 3, 2010
Web 2.0 and when to use them?
I have embedded the following Primarypad to give people the opportunity to link some work they have completed using web 2.0 resources. Please add some examples whether it is directly to a resource or a blog doesn’t matter. This pad below is open to anyone who has any examples of Web 2.0 to show, even [...]
December 31, 2009
Predictions for 2010.
After my recent thoughts on 2009, my thoughts turn to 2010. None of us know what 2010 will bring so I just thought I might share some personal and professional predictions and thoughts. I hope to see the school blogging site go from strength to strength and by the end of the year each class [...]
December 30, 2009
Reflections on 2009.
As the year is drawing to a close I record my reflections on this last year. If someone had told me that I was going to be a very happy, very hard working Deputy Headteacher back in January, I would have said they had the wrong man. This time last year, I was teaching Year [...]
December 20, 2009
Future??
As I sit here trying to multitask (mess more than one thing up at a time) I’m thinking about how much classroom education has changed in the 11 years I have been teaching. 11 years ago, schools didn’t have ICT suites as we know them today. If a school was lucky, it would have come [...]
November 23, 2009
My Little Year 6 ICT Survey
After listening to Prof. Stephen Heppell back in July 09, I tried this survey to find out what kind of ICT profile I had in my Year 6 class. The survey was carried out with children’s heads down on desks. When children were asked a question they had to raise their hand so only I [...]
