Maths and Darts
johndabell ‘David you require 79.’ He steps up to the oche, thinks for a moment and tells me that treble 13 and double 20 will do it. He hits the virtual…
July 2021
Literacy and LEGO Minifigures
The centrepieces of any LEGO are the LEGO Minifigures, also known as a ‘minifigs’. They were first introduced in 1978 and since then these instantly recognisable anthropomorphised pieces of plastic…
Anagrams and Decision Making
Are you a good decision maker? Some decisions are easy to make and they appear almost instinctive. These are straight-forward and don’t demand much thinking through. Then there are other…
Metaphorical Comparisons
There is a great activity in the book Five-Minute Activities by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright called Metaphors. This is a seemingly simple activity which encourages students to find metaphors…
Building Capacity In Schools With “We”
One of the things effective school leaders do is use the collective first person pronoun “we” rather than the singular “I”. We are in this together. We are a team.…