Pie Corbett’s non-fiction: Alex Ryder 1. Buy now – ‘Multifunction Mobile Phone’ Are you about to embark on your first mission as a spy? The Multifunction Mobile Phone is the ideal phone for all spies. • Have worldwide access so that you can always be in contact with those back home; • Make untraceable calls; • Be certain that you cannot be hacked into; • Made of titanium steel so that it works underwater and in space. This ideal mobile phone has the added bonus of a hidden tranquillizer dart that can be fired through the aerial. Perhaps the most essential reason for purchasing this ‘must have’ phone is that it can only be used by the owner. This phone is recommended by E.T., and comes complete with charger and free leather case. 2. Have you ever been captured whilst spying? The Multi-purpose Spy Key Ring is the latest gadget created by Smithers at the Covert Weapons Section of MI6. Known in the trade as ‘The Striker’, this little key ring will literally knock out your enemies! Riding high Books in the Alex Rider series: 1. 2.
Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer, a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Marble Caves, Chile Chico, Chile The Gardens at Marqueyssac Ice Canyon - Greenland Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia Valley of the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada Multnomah Falls, Oregon Seljalandsfoss Waterfall on the South Coast of Iceland Petra - Jordan (at night) Verdon, Provence, France Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia Norway Alesund Birdseye of City Benteng Chittorgarh, India Riomaggiore, Italy Keukenhof Gardens - Netherlands. Sky Lantern Festival - Taiwan. Mount Roraima - Venezuela. Seychelles East Iceland. Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. New York City. See also
Outstanding teaching using the new #Ofsted framework Firstly, this is not a model, just an experience… Ofsted background: …Throughout my teaching career, I’ve been part of 5 Ofsted inspections, dating back to 1997 as a class teacher, and most recently in 2011, my second as a senior teacher… When starting my current school, Oftsed had departed the day before! My wife, after 11 years of teaching has only been ‘subject to Ofsted’ once, but I’m sure some teachers across the country have averaged one every 2 or 3 years! Believe me, I have received all levels of judgements throughout my career. What I’ve been up to: In my role as lead for Teaching and Learning, we have started a series of six-paired ’rounds’ of learning walks and paired feedback observations. The following training has been completed with trained Ofsted inspectors @HeatherLeatt, @LornaChampCork and John Beighton. My Lesson Observation: Daring as I am, I really fancied taking a risk and using this CPD opportunity to test the water. Here is a picture of my actual lesson plan: “Right!
DIY home ideas: 25 creative ways to recycle wooden crates and pallets Simple DIY Storage Solution Reuse Two Old Crates and Window to create a perfect coffe table Wood Rolling Storage Crates Pallet Sofa Pallet Shelving Nice Table Pallet Home Theater Seating Food Storage Shelf Repurposed Wooden Shipping Crate Table Pallets for the kitchen Under cabinet fruit storage crate Pallet end table for indoor furniture Wood Pallet Patio Table Pallet cube light Clock made with pallet wood Scrap wood candle Wood Scrap Vase Another cool idea Storage Cubed Ottoman made from Pallet Wood DIY Wine Bottle Storage Rack Love this idea! Another great way to use crates Recycle Pallet to Wine Rack DIY Wooden “Love” Headboard
365 days in my shoes Day 68 Main course SPaG and dessert is Pie!!! The icing and cherry on the cake! Grammar through Talk for Writing with Pie Corbett supported by Julia Strong and Nick Batty Interactive grammar games and the use of focused teaching two deepen children’s understanding and interest in how words and sentences work. The day began with an exercise on grammar. Delegates were invited to ‘take the grammar test’ to find out whether they had heard of key grammatical terms our children could be faced with in SPaG as well as knowing how to use them. These words included :- Noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, conjunction, verb, adverb, preposition, connectives, sentence, clause, phrase, imperative, present tense, pasta tense, singular, plural, suffix, prefix, paragraph. Straightforward? And then….. Subordinate clause, possessive pronoun, adverbial, relative clause, modal verb, relative pronoun, active voice, passive voice, subject, object, cohesion, ambiguity, fronted adverbial, subjunctive. Have fun! Like this:
The Best 23 Resources for Cheap, Free, or Paid Travel (Part 1) | escapenormal The Best 23 Resources for Cheap, Free, or Paid Travel (Part 1) Welcome to Escape Normal! If you came here looking for ways to travel for free, you are in the right place. From volunteer trips to vacations to short term jobs abroad, this list covers the spectrum of affordable and paid travel opportunities. 1: Work Away Definitely my new favorite site, I haven’t yet signed up for membership but I plan on doing so immediately after I graduate. 2: Escape Normal Jobs Search for seasonal jobs all over the world, from work-exchanges on exotic retreat centers in Costa Rica to adventure kayak tour-guide positions. 3: Back Door Jobs This is for the adventurous type who still wants to make money while traveling. 4: Coolworks This site is so simple to navigate and has all the seasonal job listings you could ever think of in one place. 5: Couchsurfing This is a great resource, especially for younger people. 7: Help Exchange 8: Footprints TEFL I wish I had found this sooner. 9: Kibbutz 10: Peace Corps
In praise of failure: The key ingredient to children’s success, experts say, is not success In praise of failure: The key ingredient to children’s success, experts say, is not success Facebook | Twitter | Email | Instapaper Sarah BoesveldSaturday, Feb. 2, 2013 Mike Faille/National Post Emily Martell was born to be Rizzo. “She was so good and I was so proud of her and thought ‘She’s going to get this part,’” her mother, Ali Martell, said. She didn’t get it, and saw the defeat as a crushing failure — one so traumatic she seriously considered abandoning her passion for school plays. Ms. “She stewed on it for a day and a half, then came back to us and said ‘I never want to quit, I love drama. In letting her daughter work it out alone, Ms. The most recent plea for the embrace of failure came this week from a New Hampshire middle school teacher, Jessica Lahey, who recalled talking with a student’s mother about her daughter’s blatant plagiarism. Ms. The process of getting to the success — the stops and starts, the failed experiments — doesn’t get any recognition in our culture, said Ms.
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