I spent a nice day on Thursday going through the BLN Resources with 8 schools. Good day and lots of great ideas on how to support literacy and mathematics with these resources

Went out with Tina Housley to see Michael Keighley at Horton Grange Primary to see if we could get Elluminate ready for the Pirate Shared Adventure. Bit of a struggle but Michael and Alyas Haider our techie genius have managed to solve the problems so now we can talk to our schools via video conferencing technology

Curriculum ICT are currently working on a very exciting project. We are developing a geocaching day for KS2 classes. Geocaching is basically a high tech treasure hunt using GPS devices to locate hidden 'treasure chests' within your school's grounds. These caches can contain all sorts of learning activities linked to that class' creative curriculum theme. The caches are hidden throughout the school grounds before the children arrive and the GPS coordinates of the caches are then shared on all the devices. Children will be trained about GPS and how they can use the devices to navigate in the first session. They will have the opportunity to traverse through a virtual maze in their playground/field. In the second session the children will be introduced to what a geocache is and how they can find them within their school grounds using the devices. The children will be split into groups and roles  for these groups will be assigned. Once the caches have been found the children will open them and find a clue/activity/problem etc that they have to solve back in the classroom. This can be extended at a later date by having the children creating their own geocache trails for younger year groups, parents or other schools. First live trial run is happening next Monday. REALLY looking forward to it. To find out more about geocaching please click here.

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