Cross-Curricular Multipotentialites
Do you have a superpower? Perhaps you have more than one? You could well be a multipotentialite. Writer and artist Emilie Wapnick describes "multipotentialites" as people who have a range…
Every Day Is A School Day
Do you have a superpower? Perhaps you have more than one? You could well be a multipotentialite. Writer and artist Emilie Wapnick describes "multipotentialites" as people who have a range…
As a child, our art teacher Mrs Montgomery, was ahead of her time. She took risks and dared to be creative whilst her colleagues tutted and 'got on with the…
Teachers are encouraged to be creative and experiment in their classrooms although not too much. Senior leaders and managers don't mind if their teachers have a bash at some new…
There are some things that are useful but also useless at the same time. They sort of serve a purpose but don't. They are un-useless and quite absurd. Created in…
One of the joys finding a book behind a book is coming across some gems that you'd parked and sort of forgotten. One book I stumbled across the other day…
When you impose constraints on writing then it becomes more of a challenge and that's a good thing. It's a good thing because it encourages you to think of alternatives…
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…
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…
I've always been a sucker for a good pun and especially when it comes to book titles and pun names. I still remember my childhood favourites, There's a Hole in…
Thinking in straight lines isn't good for us because we only see forwards and backwards. Thinking is far more chaotic than that. We need to see round corners, go off-piste…