I have been working on a blogging policy which was part of the Cloudlearn research project. I have been given permission to share it. Obviously policies are intended for individual settings so of course, you will want to edit it. Blogging Policy

Teachers… We have LA Review Days, OFSTED Inspections, Parents’ Evenings, Lesson Observations, Playground Duties, Meetings and so much more. Sometimes I hear people struggling to find a reason to carry on. There is not a day goes by in my job when I am not reminded how lucky I am to be working in such [...]

You just know you’ve done something right when you put a video on the pupils blog like this one: The pupils watched the video many times so they could grab the information, they categorised the information and produced non-chronological reports with no support. Just take a look at some of the in the webpage displayed [...]

I’ve always known that Nathan (my 11 year old Nephew) had a entrepreneurial streak in him and I have put a link to his latest venture on my blog before but yesterday, I received an email form him containing this letter: He was asked by his Headteacher to talk to the Year 3 pupils at his [...]

As you may know, one of our ex-reluctant boy writers (Binyameen) is currently writing an ‘epic’ on our Year 6 Blog: Not only has Binyameen been inspired by comments from his readers, he has produced a text that other teachers are using in their classroom too. I received a tweet from Nikki (@APrimaryNQT on twitter) [...]

Just when I doubted whether I could generate the learning environment of last year with our brilliant Year 6 (now gone!) You guys come to my rescue! I had a thought this morning that it would be lovely for the new Year 6 to know a little bit more about their audience, the people they [...]