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Jax says, I’ve got to blog something from this morning’s ICT for under 2’s session. So here is a dog.

I have been meaning to post this for a while and now with the peace reigning here it seems like a good time to do it. In one of the villages near to us is a shop which proudly proclaims that it sells ‘Confectionary’. This mis-spelling is a member of a family which I find […]

Next in my series of occasional rants: Another gem from the Beeb tells how “More than a quarter of state school pupils in England are receiving private tuition lessons, say researchers.” I liked this bit: “..And the widespread use of private tuition did not seem to be linked to any feeling that schools were not […]

I am considering simply publishing the BBC Education RSS newsfeed and captioning it: “Reasons Why We Home Educate” Here are some of my current favourite articles:- Gangs who fail exams on purpose Gang culture in the north east of England means teenagers deliberately fail exams to "stay cool", researchers say. Rise in teenage truancy figures […]

I have thought of writing this all down in detail, to help me clarify my own thinking but this is in response to Jan. When Jax first suggested HE I was dumbfounded. I didn’t know it was legal, possible or practicable. As soon as I started thinking about it, a number of things came into […]

You are Dr. Bunson Honeydew. You love to analyse things and further the cause of science, even if you do tend to blow things up more often than not. HOBBIES: Scientific inquiry, Looking through microscopes, recombining DNA to create decorative art. QUOTE: “Now, Beakie, we’ll just flip this switch and 60,000 refreshing volts of electricity […]

There has been a discussion elsewhere on the ring about search engines spidering blogs. For instructions on how to block search engine bots This Page covers reasonably clearly how to do it. But if you simply want to block all bots all you need to do is create a text file containing the following two […]

Now I have been telling Jax I thought this was a good idea for ages, now someone else has gone and done it. Online High But what about socialisation……….

The Information Commissioner ‘said he did not want to sound “paranoid” but pointed to General Franco’s Spain and Communist Eastern Europe as examples of what can happen when a government gets too powerful and has too much information on its citizens.’ The UK could “sleepwalk into a surveillance society” as a result of ID cards […]

Peace reigns. Everyone else is on their way to Peterborough Peterborough is a vibrant and exciting city Peterborough is a city rich in history Peterborough is a multi-cultural city Peterborough is a major centre for sport and recreation Well, so say the city’s council, anyway.