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…
Category: Numeracy
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…
Maths rap battle
In class we’ve recently covered fractions and their decimal equivalents and I wanted to find a way to try and support the children to remember 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4. I thought back to my love of Eminem and the catchy vocals and sample tracks that he used and it got me thinking… OK, maybe Eminem isn’t…
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…
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