Archive for May, 2009
You can’t stop the… learning?
Tweet Coming to the end of a very hectic half term week where my ‘to-do’ list is appearing strangely complete. As part of my resolution to try new things this year I decided to visit London and see the musical Hairspray. Most of the children I’ve spoken to think it’s brilliant – nearly as good as [...]
A fresh look…
Tweet I haven’t had much time recently to do any work on the Multiliteracies Learning Initiative. The website is getting a considerable amount of daily traffic so I feel the need to add to the content. I’m really lucky to have so many great people willing to work as part of the teacher group and [...]
Finding time…
Tweet Another half term arrives and once again I wonder where time is disappearing to. The reason is partially because the past half term has been so short and yet so jam packed with things to do. I was hoping to read the above three books over half term: Critical Literacies in Action, Desirable Literacies [...]
Injecting SATs with a strong dose of popular culture…
Tweet SATs arrived into my classroom this week without fanfare or pre-warning. I won’t teach to the test and I give them little acknowledgement in my class. They are not the backbone of our curriculum, they are an assessment tool and nothing more. My class entered the classroom to see their desks rearranged in rows (something I had to [...]
High School Grumble 2
Tweet OK, so I caved. I watched High School Musical 3 and enjoyed it. After my previous blog post where I grumbled about the franchise escalating out of control, I felt I should watch the latest film. I was really pleasantly surprised. The finale of the series (above) is very touching and signifies the end [...]