Tag Archives: James Langley

Developing cross-curricular ICT skills with Year 3

Yesterday, I spent the the day teaching 30 Year 3 gifted and talented pupils from schools across the Bradford East 1 partnership. The host school was Thackley Primary School and the staff did a great job to ensure we had … Continue reading

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Curriculum ICT Supports Successful Schools

The Curriculum ICT team support nearly 100 nurseries, primary and secondary schools across Bradford and in other local LAs. We always like to celebrate school successes. Two particular recent successes have been at Shirley Manor Primary School, Bradford and Miriam … Continue reading

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Summer School Geocaching

Many secondary schools are running transition sumer schools throughout August for new to Year 7 pupils. Last week the Curriculum ICT team were invited to deliver a geocaching day based on the Olympics at Parkside School. The team arrived early … Continue reading

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G and T Outdoor Maths Day

On Monday, 54 children from 9 different schools took part in an outdoor learning day with maths as the main focus. John Davie, head teacher at Harden Primary School, the Curriculum ICT team and Phil Lowde (Bear and Lapor Ltd) … Continue reading

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#tmsciencebd10

In the last 6 days the Curriculum ICT team and partnering schools/companies have been involved in some fantastic outdoor learning events. Thursday 5th July saw the launch of Bradford’s first Science and Outdoor Learning TeachMeet at Greengates Primary School. Andy … Continue reading

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School of Rock- Ladies day!

James Langley and I worked with the pupils and female relatives at Nessfield on 23 March. It was a great day and the pupils and teachers had excelled themselves in dressing up for the part! The day was divided into three … Continue reading

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E-Book Reviews

As part of World Book Day 2012 pupil’s at Myrtle Park developed a collection of peer reviewed books to widen their range of reading choices and tastes.  Here are a few of those featured on the Kindles… TITLE: Teacher’s Pet … Continue reading

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E-Biographies

As part of Year 6 topic links with Black History and Literacy, a collection of biographies have been uploaded to the Kindles featuring people from Rosa parks to Barack Obama to Tinie Tempah!  Here are just a few of the brilliant examples that … Continue reading

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Kindles go continental!

As part of Myrtle Park’s Comenius links with schools in Chateauroux and Gutersloh, we have been writing and illustrating a shared text. The first part of Chapter 1 has been uploaded to the Kindles and children have been able to read/view … Continue reading

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Attitudes to reading survey

The results of the on-line ‘Poll Daddy’ attitudes to reading survey are in!

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