This term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks and I wanted a novel way for the children to research and present their information in an engaging and easy-to-use way. Enter Adobe Spark Video! This brilliant app, lets children present their information in a powerpoint-esque style but without the difficult to use features and costly software. It…
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Improve reasoning in maths
I recently got the opportunity to attend an ICT with Mr P training conference which was incredible! I came away feeling really inspired and buzzing with ideas and tried them out as soon as I got into class. One of my favourite ideas was to use the app Explain Everything to improve reasoning in maths. After teaching just over a…
Minecraft in teaching
Every single child in my class absolutely LOVES Minecraft and this got me thinking about how I could create a topic to somehow link heavily to Minecraft without it actually being Minecraft themed…thinking caps on! I decided to develop a potion/Minecraft topic which would have a heavy science theme (currently working with a Y4 class so will be…
Make your own comic
To support children to develop their script ideas (see my earlier post about using the Sainbury’s Christmas ad to inspire their pre-unit write here) I love to use online comic generators as a teaching resource. My favourite is ‘Make Beliefs Comix’. The children love to get involved and it’s easy to use both on iPad or Windows/Mac….
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