Feb
25
2012
I am so excited to finally have the much awaited guest blog post by my brilliant collegue Ben Rowe @itsmerowey. Ben is an amazing teacher who normally teaches French, Learning to Learn and Integrated Learning at Saltash.net on rare occasions he even teaches Science but only when he lets me teach French, we have it [...]
Feb
22
2012
It is with great sadness that I have resigned from my post as Deputy Headteacher at Saltash.net, I have loved every single minute of the last five years at the school, the children, staff and community are simply amazing and they have always shown me great support and encouragement in everything I have done both [...]
Feb
09
2012
Miss Ladwiniec and Mr Roberts visited Landulph Primary school last week with some of our new Ipads to work with the Year 4, 5 and 6 students. Miss Ladwiniec introduced the Garage band app to the students and demonstrated what could be produced just after 5 minutes, the students then had their turn to play [...]
Feb
08
2012
It was great to hear @itsmerowey on BBC Radio yesterday with some of our Year 7 students, apart from Ben’s great interview I paticularly enjoyed the Esafety rapping by the students. You can check out the audio clip on our website here: http://bit.ly/xKhcaQ
Feb
07
2012
I am so excited about Claire coming to visit Saltash.net Community School in March to lead a whole day on Enterprise with our Year 8 students and selected G&T students from our partner primary schools. @ClaireLYoung pictured with myself and @issybryce10 I am a huge fan of Claire’s work and constant drive to improve the [...]
Jan
26
2012
As part of our preparations for Safer Internet Day 2012, I have been running Esafety sessions with Year 4, 5 and 6 students from our primary partner schools over the last couple of weeks. In addition this week we have been running whole school assemblies raising the profile of Esafety, here is an overview of [...]
Jan
24
2012
I have been part of the Partners in Learning Community for around 5 years now and it has made a positive impact not just on my own professional development, but also the teachers that I work with and more importantly it has made an impact on the learning of the young people in our community. [...]
Jan
06
2012
There was a good article in the TES just before Christmas – actually the TES Pro which isn’t available online however the same article is now available in the TES Scotland online here: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6162190 Be interested to hear what you think?
Jan
06
2012
Congratulations to Katie Boothman and James Edwards AKA @boothmank and @jimmy_edwards who made it into the press over Christmas. Great article here please check it out! Queen Boothman arise! http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Teacher-Katie-wins-prize-innovation/story-14258802-detail/story.html
Nov
21
2011
Photo from http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk It was great to see last week that one person has bought 150 copies of the Ebook to give to teachers at a National Educatonal Conference and also that the news appeared in the Plymouth Evening Herald in the last couple of days. You can still get a copy yourself by visiting [...]