You know that feeling when you wish you’d never started something? Well, that. I’ll come back to that in a minute. Most of today was spent doing things for work. Lots of little jobs, but vital ones really – they needed doing at some point. I won’t bore you with the details. We completed one […]
On Thursday I followed up Wednesday’s work outside by taking it a step further. My Year 6 pupils were asked to create mini versions of our large circle using wool and paper plates. I had pre-cut the plates to have a range of evenly distributed and more random slots around the edges. Pupils were then […]
This is a thing of glowing beauty – you play a snowy bunny, hopping along a trail of silver bells high into the crystal-clear winter sky. Click the image below to play.
[From David Chess] A game, a game, a game! To play this game (and it’s not a game that has points really or rules or winning or anything, but a game nonetheless) be walking somewhere (somewhere very familiar, at least the first time you play it; somewhere that you walk several times a week), at […]
Great news. Today’s gibberish has been replaced with a fun and exciting geography game: Guess where HSX isn’t right now. Ready to play? Here goes… Fact 1: The World Trade Organization was officially established via an agreement signed in this city, in 1994. Fact 2: This city was founded in 1062 at the foothills of […]
I know he died a while back now (October 26, 2004, to be precise) but I wanted to create a tribute to John Peel. Here’s my little homage of links to him: 1 – The John Peel Sweet Eating Game: Still worth a try. Let me know how you do! 2 – John Peel’s Festive […]
The highlight of this month was wrestling with my computer every spare second I had in order to restore it to something resembling working order… So that’s why I’ve been decidedly quiet on the internet front. How ironic is it that installing a virus protection program can completely screw about your computer?! Anyway, it’s working […]
Quite a lot of interesting things to point you to, so point I shall do. I know that some of these places are getting a lot of traffic so support them if you have the means to do so with money, or if the mood takes you, by emailing them to tell them how nice […]