Links for the various presentations I am doing at The BETT Show: The day the German Embassy popped in. Year 4 link with a school in Australia Project Blogs: Well Done Blog A WONDERFUL place!! Pandora Writing Blog – Inspired by Avatar Kensuke’s Kingdom Writing Blog The Island: 1 to 1 Tuition Writing Blog Fern’s [...]
Blogging @ Heathfield
Do we have a video expert on the staff at Heathfield? Well, no we don’t. However, Miss Hirani recently let slip that her sister was studying film production at University. About 2 days later the other Miss Hirani was in school filming a short film inspired by the pupils about Blogging @ HeathfieldCPS:
Shame on our Department for Education!
I was told through Twitter that a video planned, produced, edited and blogged by my Year 6 class was on the Government’s intranet as ‘Clip of the Week’. I was delighted and much more importantly, the pupils were so proud! Due to the nature of the video which, you can see below, was all about [...]
The day the nation took notice of Primary Blogging!
Firstly, I must apologise for the rushed nature if this post! It’s Valentine’s Day and there’s only so long I can pretend to be sitting on the toilet! Today was a very important day for so many reasons! To think that just over 14 months ago, Heathfield didn’t have any blogs is virtually unbelievable. Those [...]
I challenged my pupils to plan and create a persuasive video to make people comment on class blogs…
On Wednesday, I asked my Year 6 pupils to plan and produce a video that would persuade people to comment more on class blogs. Before you watch their video, you need to know that ALL the scenes in the video were from their ideas. They produced a plan of made from the ideas from everyone! [...]
New front entrance display ceremony!
Our Year 4 teacher Miss Wiggans has a great little problem – she’s a perfectionist! Year 4 have been learning all about Egypt and now that they have many outcomes of learning to display, Miss Wiggans has attacked the display cabinets right next to the main entrance. Now only Miss Wiggans would decorate the wonderful [...]
My #TMX Presentation and request for feedback.
Sprogs with ‘Real’ Blogs on Prezi You can view it here: (Cringe) You can give me feedback using the form below: Loading…
Work hard…play hard!!
We like to have a bit of fun at Heathfield. Today we organised the Bolton Music Service to come into school to show the pupils what can be done with a bit of hard work! I think you’ll agree, these guys are not the normal music service people you get. We just let the children [...]
Is YouTube worth all the hype?
For many years I have been one of YouTube’s biggest fans. I had contacted Bolton LA on numerous occasions over the years to try and get it unblocked or to ask what their future plans could be with regards staff use. It was only recently that Bolton LA asked me if I wanted to have [...]








