With Bett starting tomorrow I was reflecting on why people attend the event in their droves every single year - of course, the obvious answer is the networking, but often it's more to do with the CPD, to learn about new technologies and to speak with the companies that produce…
Read More
Welcome to Day 9 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! A consistent feature throughout the AppventCalendar event so far has been those tools and apps which have really helped to make a difference to communication, collaboration and teaching and learning throughout the pandemic. In the early years and primary setting one…
Read More
I'll pre-empt this post by saying, every school that I visit is special. I am very fortunate to have the job I have. Last week was one of the most amazing weeks of my career when I got to travel across the UK to visit schools on the Edtech 50…
Read More
Getting support, advice and inspiration for the myriad of different aspects of school life can be a difficult task. Breaking away from your local authority as part of academisation or forming a MAT can make things more difficult as those services you once had easily available can make decision making…
Read More
Whether you like it or not data and knowing how to understand, interpret and analyse it is an important facet of the modern educator. There are lots of systems that you probably use every day that hold lots of data; you've probably had about 4235242 emails from them recently about GDPR…
Read More
It’s that time of year again where school timetablers are starting to get themselves ready for the forthcoming year. Coupling that with the balancing act of colleagues leaving for pastures new and trying to ensure teacher coverage for all of the courses you will be running next academic year can…
Read More