So, we're currently in week 5 of the first half term of the new school year...busy time! I've been getting to know my lovely new class, setting up routines and expectations, rewards systems and generally tweaking things to suit both the children, me and my TA's and we're getting there! My class love both their 'Ping' whole class reward system and their 'Magic Marks' individual reward system, I'm getting used to doing the register online and we're all getting to know our routines pretty well!
New to our school this year is the wonderful Purple Mash from 2 Simple. Our ICT technician Steve had the brainwave of an idea to ask 2Simple to make us our own gateway page to make it easier for KS1 to login and now the whole school accesses this from our school website - that Steve also created and manages. This week is really the first week that the whole school has been 'Purplemashing.' We sent out letters and login details and classes have been using it in their ICT lessons to make/do various things. Nabby 3 have been using it to learn to type and to create posters about what they have learnt about their teeth so far in science. Nabby 4 have been using it to create an image of their dreams which links with their literacy at the moment. Nabby2 have been using it to create documents about fairies...all classes love it and they can use it at home so even better! 2 Simple have the most amazing support network, I can't imagine any company doing better than they do. Thanks guys!
Also new to our school is a whole school blogging site created by John Sutton and his company 'Creative Blogs.' John has been great and sorted things out very quickly, couldn't ask for a better service! Our main school site can be found here and at the moment it's work in progress as everyone gets to grips with how blogs work. The start of the new school year is an incredibly busy time and all teachers want to blog! I've been helping staff learn how to blog after school on many occasions which is just great! I know how much our blogs have already enthused the children and can't wait to see how whole school blogging really develops.
I wanted to upload a few of the songs I sing to get children's attention but it's proving to be rather problematic...so I'll list them and hopefully add me singing at a later time when I have figured it all out!
New to our school this year is the wonderful Purple Mash from 2 Simple. Our ICT technician Steve had the brainwave of an idea to ask 2Simple to make us our own gateway page to make it easier for KS1 to login and now the whole school accesses this from our school website - that Steve also created and manages. This week is really the first week that the whole school has been 'Purplemashing.' We sent out letters and login details and classes have been using it in their ICT lessons to make/do various things. Nabby 3 have been using it to learn to type and to create posters about what they have learnt about their teeth so far in science. Nabby 4 have been using it to create an image of their dreams which links with their literacy at the moment. Nabby2 have been using it to create documents about fairies...all classes love it and they can use it at home so even better! 2 Simple have the most amazing support network, I can't imagine any company doing better than they do. Thanks guys!
Also new to our school is a whole school blogging site created by John Sutton and his company 'Creative Blogs.' John has been great and sorted things out very quickly, couldn't ask for a better service! Our main school site can be found here and at the moment it's work in progress as everyone gets to grips with how blogs work. The start of the new school year is an incredibly busy time and all teachers want to blog! I've been helping staff learn how to blog after school on many occasions which is just great! I know how much our blogs have already enthused the children and can't wait to see how whole school blogging really develops.
I wanted to upload a few of the songs I sing to get children's attention but it's proving to be rather problematic...so I'll list them and hopefully add me singing at a later time when I have figured it all out!
- I sing a capital letters song to get my class to check they have them
- 'Hocus Pocus let's have focus'...it works!
- Or - Hocus Pocus Bob's got focus!
- One, two, three, four, five, six, one...and in French
- Ooopa lumpa tickety tee, now it is time to listen to me....
- Wave at me, wave at, wave at me and stop your talking! - for the ICT suite!
