The use of technology in schools is moving ahead rapidly. Since the beginning of January 2010 the children in P.6/7 have been blogging and there interest, motivation and excitement for the project has been wonderful. You may have heard a bit about primary blogging on the news the other day. Kilmartin is not alone in getting the children active by blogging – or using a real context with a real audience for writing!
One of the leading schools in the forefront of primary blogging is Heathfield P.S. If you would like to find out what they have been up to, please click on the link on the right. Here’s the beginning of Mr. Mitchell’s report, describing the day the T.V. cameras arrived at his school!
To think that just over 14 months ago, Heathfield didn’t have any blogs is virtually unbelievable. Those of you reading this will no doubt know the story so far so I won’t bore you with the details,
however, the developments over the last few days have been monumental!
Not long ago, Heathfield Primary became an affiliated SSAT Primary school – Something EVERY school should consider doing! The SSAT are an organisation that have expertise oozing through their veins. Through this affiliation, Heathfield were able to support and guide Heathfield into a position to showcase blogging and the fantastic impact it is having on our school community.
On Friday 11th February, Heathfield were featured in an article in the Independent. At about 12:10pm the phone started ringing…
BBC Breakfast News were the first to contact us, followed by Channel 4 News at 12:40pm and then BBC Radio 4 at 12:45pm. The chain of events that followed were exciting and also slightly comical!
