Following my experiment to work without paper using iPads only I rolled out the idea across the whole science department. we have spent the academic year 2020-21pretty much only delivering tasks to student iPads in all year groups. Here are my top tips: Use Google Classroom as your point of access for every lesson; set… Read more »

Various presenters look at the issues that can be supported by schemes that support ensuring devices are available for all. Dai Thomas-Director of Digital Services & Digital Learning, Dfe Demonstrator Project lead, Warden Park Secondary Academy Alison Critchley-Education Business & Partnerships Manager, Portsmouth City Council Emma Darcy– Director of Technology for Learning, Chiltern Learning Trust… Read more »

This webinar looks at Digital Safety & wellbeing and what schools could do to ensure that they are developing a Digitally Safe culture. Emotional wellbeing is also linked with living in an increasingly digital world with social media increasingly playing a part in young peoples lives with positive and negative outcomes. Resource talked about during… Read more »

I have been trialling paperless working in year 9 science lessons with some positive outcomes for students. Students are provided with a set of Google Slides which have resources and tasks for a complete topic. The ‘exercise book’ is assigned in Google Classroom so that each student has their own copy to edit on their… Read more »

      With a view on raising achievement and progress in my own geography lessons I have been looking for strategies to improve students’ results in test and formal examinations. We provide substantive lists of what needs to be revised and will run a revision session prior to the exam but I wanted to… Read more »

Year 11 are coming into their exam season and for most, unlike in previous years, they are used to gaining access at a high level to revision guides and help from their teachers on their IPad. Most classes are using Google Classroom effectively for both sharing materials and receiving homework. It is a quick, easy… Read more »

In a recent English lesson we were reading Chapter 5 from Frankenstein, which had some complex language and ideas. There is a particular section where Frankenstein exclaims how his creature is ‘a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived’. There were many questions about the creature and the language used to describe him. However, the… Read more »

Independent Learning defined: “Independent learning is a process, a method and a philosophy of education whereby a learner acquires knowledge by his or her own efforts and develops the ability for enquiry and critical evaluation” The aim within the Technology department is to encourage and enable our students to: become autonomous learners be self-directed in… Read more »

Assessment for Learning has always been something I’ve felt I’ve needed to really work at to do well, and do regularly enough that it’s useful. In my first year teaching, for me it meant lots of marking. Gradually I realised that, actually, it can be far less didactic than that and involve the students far… Read more »

Digital learning has proved an invaluable tool not only in the variety of ways that students can learn but in the way that they can access and complete work. One of our biggest issues is to boost self – esteem and confidence with children who have difficulties in their learning as they often feel ‘different’… Read more »