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A spot of golf – Mt Kenya
June 15, 2011No Comments
This is a photograph streamed in from P H O T O N O M Y my photoblog. Do check out the photo in its natural habitat so that you can encounter the whole photographic experience. After what has been a challenging yet rewarding PGCE Year I am back with my photography. Its so good [...]
Evaluation of OCR Nationals A06 Databases
May 31, 20112 Comments
Over the last term I have been teaching a series of lesson bassed on the ICT OCR Nationals syllabus. The syllabus is broken down into 6 modules and the pupils have to complete each module at pass level in order to get what is equivalent to half a GCSE. I have been specifically teaching them the AO6 Databases [...]
Year 8 Apprentice Finance Lesson.
May 26, 20111 Comment
Resources >> bit.ly/kncUqQ Lesson Plan >> bit.ly/kncUqQ What went well? In this lesson pupils where given a good opportunity to practice their numeracy skills by using their research to fill in a finances spread sheet in Excel. They where able to practice doing formular such as sum functions and simple adding up formular they als learnt [...]
National Curriculum and Exams
May 25, 20115 Comments
I have recently been involved in some department meetings that have been to discuss the relevant topics and schemes of work for the next academic year in my home school. The way this has worked is the Head of IT has emailed us out a list of the various areas in the curriculum that have gaps and need schemes of work. [...]
Year 13 Revision Lessons & Exam Prep
May 24, 20111 Comment
Over the last 5 weeks I have had the opportunity to get some experience with year 13 KS5 computing lessons. This has been a steep learning curve for me and I have seen how complex a topic this is. The main area that we have been working on is Internet security. Please see this Lesson [...]
Lesson Plan >> bit.ly/lGW8cs In this lesson i was really trying to make personalized provision for SEN Pupils What went well. most pupils where able to have a sub system created for a pelican flow chart so the objectives where completed pupils learnt more about how to create flow charts and see the effect of this in [...]
Using Local and National statisitical data in my teaching I have been looking at how pupils at GCSE perform in ICT over this year. I have noticed that there is a trend that boys tend to under perform in the course work related subjects of which one is the GCSE OCR national’s option. According to [...]
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I am a chap that really enjoys photography and things that look nice. I am currently on my PGCE year at Bath University which is training me to be a ICT teacher. I love playing rugby and going Kitesurfing in Kenya which is my home away from home.