Experiment House
Teachers are encouraged to be creative and experiment in their classrooms although not too much. Senior leaders and managers don’t
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Creativity
Chindogu: The Art of the Un-Useless
There are some things that are useful but also useless at the same time. They sort of serve a purpose
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A Novel Idea
When you impose constraints on writing then it becomes more of a challenge and that’s a good thing. It’s a
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Literacy and LEGO Minifigures
The centrepieces of any LEGO are the LEGO Minifigures, also known as a ‘minifigs’. They were first introduced in 1978
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Metaphorical Comparisons
There is a great activity in the book Five-Minute Activities by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright called Metaphors. This is
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Pun Names And Book Titles
I’ve always been a sucker for a good pun and especially when it comes to book titles and pun names.
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Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Thinking in straight lines isn’t good for us because we only see forwards and backwards. Thinking is far more chaotic
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Would You Rather….?
If you want to kick-start a discussion then a fail-safe idea for class (and other contexts) is to play the
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Concept Cake
Can you have your cake and eat it? Not normally but in class you can and as often as you
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