Jax says, I’ve got to blog something from this morning’s ICT for under 2’s session. So here is a dog.
Poor Dick Shone
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 […]
Another Gem
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 […]
Reasons Why We Home Educate
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 […]
Y H E ?
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 […]
Suggestions please
As some of you may know I am currently suffering (and that is the right word to describe what I am doing 🙁 ) from a slipped disc. This means that I am spending rather a lot of time supine and sitting for extended periods is a real problem for me. So what I have […]
My name is Tim and I am
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 […]
Teachers 'not happy' with parents
Most teachers think parents are not involved enough with their children’s education and expect too much of schools, a survey says (BBC). ..well, I think we can solve that one for them…. But as to the rest Schools in England will stay open for 10 hours a day, under childcare plans to be presented by […]
Looking down on people
We’ve been playing with Multimap. Specifically, we have been playing with the aerial maps. We looked at our house, we looked at J, J, C & M’s house, grandfather and uncle David’s houses (we wanted to see the sea) and we looked at Kessingland (“Where’s the field with my tent?”). Big definitely seems to have […]
Robots
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 […]