Technology and the outside world (for Rosemond)
This teacher had planned and resourced a week of work on Autumn Poetry, where children would extend their vocabularly to describe Autumn changes. To kick start this week, they wrapped up warm and went for a muddy walk along ‘Our Special Lane’. Take a look at what happened…

The children were so switched on to this problem they had discovered themselves and all they wanted to do was debate this issue. I had to swallow my pride, push all of my poetry planning and resources to one side, and let these young minds lead our learning. We used the class blog to explain the problem and another teacher suggested we should make posters. The blog gave my class a voice and a purpose to write. They wanted to learn about posters, but already had a lot of ideas anyway, including putting the school logo on the posters so that people would know they are from John Davies. The class displayed their work proudly on the school gates, then took their posters home to display in their bedroom windows.

Plan time outside – take your class for a walk or to a park

Click through to see the video slideshow they made and how technology helped them.