Windows

New year new school new schemes of work. Loving my geography work for September, how can we change the view from the window? Foreseeing lots of cross curricular links and themed work from this stimulus. Yay! Bring it on, is it Spetember yet?

Shakespeare

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Here and there

Data for comparison – convert these figures into line graphs using excel. Next lesson we will look at what we can learn from the information they contain.

Amazing things before breakfast

I read somewhere once that you should do 4 amazing things before breakfast. Not sure I can manage that every day! But here’s something pretty amazing.   NASA recorded a four year time-lapse of a stellar explosion in space!   Find more cool NASA resources for teachers here.

Getting Better but Not There Yet!

Look carefully at the display.  Think about IMPACT. Is it easy to read the labels? Do we need a title? If ‘yes’ then what should it be? What are we going to put in the blank spaces? Do we want to keep all of the images we already have? Do we need to add more

Chris Van Allsburg

Our set text this term is Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg.   Your task is to research the author. Here are some questions you might want to include: when and where was he born? how many books has he written/illustrated? how many of his stories are you aware of and in what format

Etymology

My mum won a prize at school for spelling the longest word in the English language (this ‘title’ is open to debate). The word was  floccinaucinihilipilification and means –  the estimation of something as worthless – 29 letters Obviously it wasn’t worthless – she got a book for knowing how to spell it! She was

Thinking About Mediating the Media

With this clip in mind I took DD2 to Tynemouth Sea Life Centre, a real experience, surely? No not so. She took her iPad so that she could take photgraphs and video clips. Nothing wrong with that but I soon realised that she used her camera to view the world through rather than to record

Multiplication – why did nobody teach me this method when I was younger?

Japanese multiplication method   Have fun practicing, remember to draw the lines on the diagonal so that the units tens and hundreds line up and to circle the groups before adding them up – use coloured pencils if you want to, it may make it easier for you to see the groups.

I’m Henery the 8th I am.

In History we are studying the Tudors and you need to use this frame to present your work…tudor frame.   We’re all familiar with the Horrible Histories programmes about the Tudors but here’s one you might not have seen   and for a little light entertainment … when you’ve finished…. abit of silliness