It’s only Tuesday and it has already been a very busy week!

We have already had a very busy week and it’s only Tuesday. We have been practicing our play in our dancing groups (Mrs Rowlands and Mrs Davies must be exhausted!) and singing our songs and getting the words and actions just right!
As well as that our school has been dealing with one or two issues [...]

James Blunt, triangles, computers and Champion Child

James Blunt, who drove lots of people a little bit crazy with his song “You’re Beautiful” has turned his attention to triangles……its great for shape work. Watch his performance….


My own computer is not very well at the moment and we’ll have to see if it can recover in time to [...]

Promethean Staff Meeting

Rachel from Promethean came to teach us how to use our Activprimary voting whiteboards much better…….
A great place to start is http://www.prometheanworld.com/uk/
There are also some sites that can be used for resources and that fit perfectly into our activboards. They are….
www.rottentomatoes.com
http://www.itnsource.com/en/Home-Page/
http://www.britishpathe.com/
Thank you for coming Rachel, it was a very interesting and entertaining presentation. How many teachers know [...]

Zoho

Zoho is an online facility that is free and, well it looks terrific. I’m trying some stuff out on it and would like to do a story writing task. Click on the link to find the start of our first shared story.
http://writer.zoho.com/public/raff/The-Angry-Pirate/script

I’m not 100% sure about how things work in Zoho and I have a [...]

Golden Rules for Golden Time

We have started Golden Time at Green Park and Year 1 are no exception. We share our fun, Friday activities with Y2 and the Reception Class as a reward for trying hard with our Golden Rules. These are:

Do be gentle

Do be kind and helpful

Do work hard

Do look after property

Do listen to [...]

Hello again Y1

I’m just going for my lunch. I hope you had a nice morning and work hard this afternoon.

Hello Y1

I hope you are looking after Mrs Farmer today and singing nicely for Mrs Reed. I am in Wigan finding out about lots of fab stuff about ICT………it’s with Wigan LEA and they have got lots of great ideas for using ICT. I have found out about Penguins and will let you know later how [...]

Numeracy Assessment

We use Wigan’s Numeracy Assessment documents to help with our own Numeracy Assessment. If you would like to look at them or use them, they can be found at
http://www.wiganschoolsonline.net/curriculum/maths/blockassess.shtm
The link can also be found in the Numeracy links section on the right hand side of the blog.

Tuesday

What a different day it was today. We started with Reading Club, then Sounds~Write, the we explored on our Whatever the Weather Walk and then when we came back we found out that that Mr Sutton (our IT friend) had left a message on our first voicethread……..so had Mrs Cassidy. Then we did a bit [...]

Another new toy!

We have another new thing to present our information. It’s called voicethread and you can leave comments by keyboard or, even better, by recording your voice. Fab!
(Sorry for the old pictures but my camera is in school……………….! We’ll do some more tomorrow.)


http://voicethread.com/share/20709/

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