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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Wednesday, 03 May 2006
We, May 3, 2006Tonga 'Great Earthquake'
| A 'Geat Earthquake' near Tonga. Not a lot of anything down there, but still tsunamis travel far. |
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Pelsall Village Primary
Web site of the week from Pelsall: "Years 3 and 4 are looking at simulations in our ICT lessons. This web site asks you to make Colin the perfect cup of coffee. The first time I did it I rotted his teeth. See if you can do any better... Colin's cup of coffee."
"Pupils on trips may get tags displaying a school ID and phone number so teachers can be contacted. Anyone who finds a lost pupil or sees one misbehaving can phone the number and input the school's ID on the tag."
Britain's blame and compensation culture the reason for teachers not going to the trouble of organising school trips. This is supposed to help?
Children know the net better than their parents
Guardian: More likely to have a mobile, use the net, listen to radio and read papers: it's the girl: "Almost all children between 12 and 15 with the internet at home said they were "confident" surfing the web and did so on average for eight hours a week."
There's more stats that I can shake my sticks at here, but this one caught my eye. 8 hours online a week! I guess the rest of their life is spent watching telly... Only joking! For sure, it's much better to be a web slouch than a TV couch potato, and if they're on the 'net they're not watching TV.
Over the 1,000 page views barrier
 | Craig y Don have crashed through the 1,000 page views a day barrier. Not bad for a site that's only been alive for 40 days. But then, posted to so frequently, with news that's captivating, illustrated and down right news worthy, means parents and pupils are coming back for more, time and time again. | |
| Now, if I could only get them to link to other sites more. You see,
it's the first rule of building traffic to your Weblog — send them
away! It's true, the more you can send them away, the more they'll come
back :-) Surfers want links. They want to go to other sites and appreciate a good link. I mean they really, really, really appreciate a good link, and say thanks by visiting your site again — looking for more good links. | ||
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Pupil journalists
Now, what's really amazing, is that these news items are written by pupils.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! How many times have I seen the film? I'd have loved to have seen the real car. Lucky, lucky people in Craig y Don.
The North Wales Venue will be opened by a pupil from Criag y Don!
Raising money for a trip to France, the kids do a sponsored toboggan race.
Now, they're getting serious with the pupil journalism idea. Gonna be fun :-)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! How many times have I seen the film? I'd have loved to have seen the real car. Lucky, lucky people in Craig y Don.
The North Wales Venue will be opened by a pupil from Criag y Don!
Raising money for a trip to France, the kids do a sponsored toboggan race.
Now, they're getting serious with the pupil journalism idea. Gonna be fun :-)
