Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Thank goodness it’s Friday, to help brighten up your day and to help you with your planning at weekends, I will be posting a weekly web based idea that will take just 1 minute of your time to read about. If you like what you read then why not try it out in your lessons [...]

Thank you to @issybryce10 who tweeted out a great article in the Guardian newspaper this week on leadership titled ‘Winning advice from the field’. The article discusses tips on leadership from sport but can equally be applied to all other areas of leadership especially in education. The article discusses a book written by Declan Gane [...]

Thank goodness it’s Friday, to help brighten up your day and to help you with your planning at weekends, I will be posting a weekly web based idea that will take just 1 minute of your time to read about. If you like what you read then why not try it out in your lessons [...]

So this is the first week of nearly two weeks off timetable for us while the whole secondary section of the school from Year7-Year10 sit end of year exams for every subject. Year 11 and 13 have left and Year 12 have just returned from study leave so their normal lessons are resuming and any [...]

I have had several requests for the links to these videos in the last few days so I have decided to re-post them here for those people to see, it is easier than sending all of the individual links to different people. To watch me appearing in the following videos: ‘We are the future’ with [...]

I tried this out today with a Year 7 group of students, I am sure you remember using one of these when you were at school to predict who would be your next girlfriend or boyfriend! Here is a giant one some students made today. What did we do? Instead of predicting your future love [...]

Thank goodness it’s Friday, to help brighten up your day and to help you with your planning at weekends, I will be posting a weekly web based idea that will take just 1 minute of your time to read about. If you like what you read then why not try it out in your lessons [...]

I had my final lesson with one of my classes today and we were revising for the end of year exams next week. I gave the students 5 minutes in groups to come up with a creative way of revising as a whole class, one of the success criteria was that they had to create [...]

Every year group in the school for the next few weeks will be completing end of year exams in all subjects here at the International School. I have been exploring with a group of students how do you revise? We discussed how do teachers and our parents support us to revise? We then produced a [...]

What is your organisations core purpose? Whether you are within education or business this great TED talk by Simon Sinek on How great leaders inspire action is great food for thought. Simon talks through leadership in essence as what puts others, (as individuals or organisations) apart from the rest? Ultimately ‘they think, act and communicate [...]