SENCO conference

Had a brilliant day at John Innes centre in Norwich for the essential network conference. Learnt so much and am overwhelmed by what I need to do, but looking forward to getting my teeth into it all. Thank goodness for my superb LSA support who is totally behind supporting me. We have a big job ahead of us! On a personal note I became an aunty today :-)

First blog, ever!

First ever blog being posted! I am Amy, a year 6 teacher and senco. I am trying to keep on top of changes and developments in the new(ish) world of iPads. I have the beginnings of a small website for apps to help children with special needs, but also want to share what we try with the year 6 class. It's all brand new for me, but so far we have used them in a Maths lesson led by a year 7 teacher from the high school. She was impressed. I asked all the children to open up the year 6 folder, go to the 'MathsAttack' app and open it up. They were then asked to click Monty's quest. The teacher wanted to do the 7 x table so I asked the children to click that and stop. So far so good, or not, two pairs started to play so I had to remind them of ground rules; they need to restrain the urge to fiddle when listening to instructions! I was then able to ask each ability group to take a particular challenge; beginner, intermediate or expert and turn off the sound. The children then worked in pairs to beat their own personal best at answering quick tables questions. All good, brains warmed up, good listening and visiting teacher impressed - happy me!!