Category Archives: children

Coding in Year 1 with Scratch

Posted on January 21, 2018 by blogmywiki

Since September I’ve been teaching ICT and Computing solely in a primary school, having spent two hectic but enjoyable years teaching from KS2 to KS4 in a girls’ school in London. I’m re-writing a curriculum that has much more focus … Continue reading →

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Q: When is an A&E not an A&E?

Posted on February 1, 2013 by blogmywiki

A: When it is closed to blue lights. Lewisham A&E has not been reprieved. An A&E that does not admit blue lights, that takes the 75% of the less-seriously ill people who would have gone before, which refers the seriously … Continue reading →

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Meet the Arduino

Posted on March 17, 2012 by blogmywiki

I was getting a bit fed up waiting for my Raspberry Pi to arrive, so when a colleague said he’d ordered an Arduino, I decided to get one too – even though the Arduino is more expensive and less-powerful. It … Continue reading →

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November spawned a monster

Posted on November 26, 2011 by blogmywiki

Or, My NaNoWriMo Hell It was a mad, spur-of-the-moment decision. I hadn’t thought it through. A couple of friends were doing NaNoWriMo – and I thought, what the hell, why not? 50,000 words in a month, 1666 words a day. … Continue reading →

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Every Little Earthquake

Posted on January 22, 2010 by blogmywiki

It’s ‘Own Clothes Day’ at my children’s schools today, to raise money for Haiti. At breakfast I explained to my daughter, 4, what the money was for. She said ‘we know a song about an earthquake.’ I’d seen a Met … Continue reading →

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