Planning - Why?

A short video on some thoughts about planning...

Be Aware of the Beige

We all want our children's attitudes to learning to be brilliant. We want them to be engaged, enthusiastic and excited.

It's up to us to make sure that our lessons are created so that they are able to feel these qualities.

Where does this happen? Where are the roots of these attitudes?

Staff meeting tonight will focus on these questions and more!

Happy New Year and Success Criteria

Happy New Year to you all. I hope you are all well rested and ready for the year ahead.

Please find below a short video about Success Criteria. It's about how we may have become confused about their use in school and what our expectations are at SPS.

There will be a follow-up, taking things a little further (how they can be used at different stages of schooling etc.) but this is a first go.

Snacko - Healthy Snacks

Whilst I'm on...

I was asked about what we could do about Healthy Snacks in school.

Click on Snacko to see what I came up with before...

... could he be useful?

Khan Academy Videos

Hello All

I've just added a new tab to the Our Hero's Journey blog. It's a tool I've made for you to find, quickly, instructional videos on Khan Academy. It might be that you'd like to include them on your blog.

Click on the tab - KhanAcademyVids- above and have a look. Clicking on this link will take you to the same place too.

Let me know if you find it useful.

Paul

A New Year Begins...

Just a gentle bit of fun to get the creative juices flowing...



When you've had a look - go to the Plotagon website and download the free software and have a go. Alternatively - you could go to the iTunes app store and download it for free onto your iPad.

Could this be useful for writing (playscripts in particular)?

Agenda for INSET

The agenda for next week!

Monday - 1st September

9.30am Session 1: The State of Play & The Art of Teaching

10.30am Coffee

11.00am Session 2: Lesson Study 1 - Literacy Observation

12.00pm Lunch

12.30pm Session 3: New arrangements for this year

1.30pm Classroom-based

Tuesday - 2nd September

9.30am Session 4: Response to Self-Directed Task

10.30am Coffee

11.00am Session 5: Lesson Study 2 - Maths Observation

12.00pm Lunch

12.30pm Session 6: Development of Teaching & Learning Policy

1.30pm Classroom-based