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It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Tuesday, 28 February 2006
Tu, Feb 28, 2006Look out there's a Dep Head about
I've been in touch, a little, with the Deputy Head of an independent school in Hertfordshire BCPS, who's used blogs for his school since Jan, 2004. BTW I've used blogs and developed in blogs since 1999 :-) Hah! But, he's using the same platform as us, Manila, though it's an out of the box set up. Though Neil's own site uses Wordpress as the base.
Anyway, he's contacting, one by one, the bloggers at each of the 8 Walsall Schools who have weblogs. He's trying to gather opinions and experiences and true life stories, "in advance of the First UK Edu Bloggers Conference 2nd June, London."
He goes on... "I feel that the work that you and other primary teachers such as John Johnston, who's main school blog is here, John Mills of West Blatch Blogs, Mark Warner and Andrew Ross, [my links] has to be represented on the agenda of any UK conference. Otherwise we will be in the usual top-down, technology driven, situation, rather than actually having a voice to describe the experience of our young ICT experts."
You can email neil jones
directly or leave comments, or mail me 
. Or post a comment on Neil's The Blogface blog.
I was thinking of the bullying, and other 'safety problems' we've had. Oh, and there was the spoofing of memberships... But these were my issues, technical challenges mainly. What about real life learning? Oh yeah, there's the blog clubs. The Head Teacher's Award for doing contrbutions toward the school website at Beechdale... Ah, Grasshopper, that brought a tear to my eye that did. Don't have a link though, it was a private email...
What else?
Anyway, he's contacting, one by one, the bloggers at each of the 8 Walsall Schools who have weblogs. He's trying to gather opinions and experiences and true life stories, "in advance of the First UK Edu Bloggers Conference 2nd June, London."
He goes on... "I feel that the work that you and other primary teachers such as John Johnston, who's main school blog is here, John Mills of West Blatch Blogs, Mark Warner and Andrew Ross, [my links] has to be represented on the agenda of any UK conference. Otherwise we will be in the usual top-down, technology driven, situation, rather than actually having a voice to describe the experience of our young ICT experts."
You can email neil jones
. Or post a comment on Neil's The Blogface blog.I was thinking of the bullying, and other 'safety problems' we've had. Oh, and there was the spoofing of memberships... But these were my issues, technical challenges mainly. What about real life learning? Oh yeah, there's the blog clubs. The Head Teacher's Award for doing contrbutions toward the school website at Beechdale... Ah, Grasshopper, that brought a tear to my eye that did. Don't have a link though, it was a private email...
What else?
Dogs, babies, pancakes and parents
So far today in our community, we've puppies and babies over in Walsall Wood and don't forget to dress up on Friday, while in Pelsall we've a reminder of parents consultations. I've got to go tonight here in Telford to my daughter's SATs update.
But most importantly, and critically... It's Shrove Tuesday!!! Pancake day!!! And I'm hungry. Thanks to Kings Hill for reminding me. Nice photos there of hot pancake making. I love posts like this. Good pictures tell a thousand words stories.
But most importantly, and critically... It's Shrove Tuesday!!! Pancake day!!! And I'm hungry. Thanks to Kings Hill for reminding me. Nice photos there of hot pancake making. I love posts like this. Good pictures tell a thousand words stories.
School anxiety
My little girl is having some problems on entering school. Crying when I leave her. I'm consumed with guilt and worry, so I do some Googling and find some help which I've detailed below. I hope it's foot steps in the snow for others.
My child says she hates school. What should I do?
Parents should ask positive questions such as:
How to find out how your child feels at school
De-Stressing Today's Kids
Successful Strategies for Test Anxiety
How to Help Your Anxious Child
My child says she hates school. What should I do?
Parents should ask positive questions such as:
- If you could make school any way you wanted, how would you make it?
- If you could have anybody you know be your teacher, who would you choose, and why?
- What would you do to make recess the very best it could be?
- If you were in charge of how boys and girls played together, how would you set it up?
How to find out how your child feels at school
- How does the teacher treat the class?
- How do the other kids like
school?
- What did the teacher tell everyone in class to do?
- Which subjects are his favorites and which are the hardest.
- Find out what he likes best about the teacher.
- What's your favorite part of the day?
- Which friends do you hang out with during lunch and recess?
- Is anything scaring you today?
- What's getting hard at school?
- Has anything been disappointing?
De-Stressing Today's Kids
Successful Strategies for Test Anxiety
How to Help Your Anxious Child
- Teach the child how to rate fear. If your child can visualize the intensity of the fear on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the strongest, he may be able to "see" the fear as less intense than first imagined...
- Teach coping strategies. The child can also learn some positive self-statements, such as "I can do this" and "I will be OK," which he can say to himself when he feels anxious...
