satwant.bance

Had a great time with our P7 class over the last few months. We have been looking at the parables of Christ in R.E. recently and I wanted to enthuse the children to think about them a little more. Therefore, I set them a task in groups to write a script for a modern day [...]

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The burdens of a long teaching day were thankfully relieved by the presentation of my new shiny slim Glow MacBook Pro. It has some great new features such as a built in camera,and light sensors that illuminate the keyboard automatically when it gets dark. I also like some of the new software such as Photobooth [...]

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Finally have my Promethean interactive whiteboard up and it’s looking good and working well. I have spent a lot of this week playing around with the various resources and so far I am impressed.
I found the board to be a real help with a maths lesson where I was teaching about area. In particular the [...]

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November 1st: leading my first full day course at Inverary Conference Centre.
A nervous start to the month! This was the first day course I have lead for Argyll and Bute authority but all went very well. It was aimed at beginners, and they seemed to be much more confident in their use of a DV [...]

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This week I organised an after school informal session where teachers in the local Helensburgh and Cardross area were invited to come along and share ideas for Interactive whiteboards. It went really well, despite most of the attendees choosing not to demonstrate their ideas in front of the rest of the group. About 15 people [...]

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Have organised an interactive whiteboard session next Tuesday for staff in the local area (Helensburgh and Cardross) at Cardross Primary School. The plan is for staff to come along with one basic idea that they have created for use with the white board. Each teacher is given 5 minutes or less to share their idea [...]

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Thoroughlly enjoyed SETT last week and managed to get quite a few ideas for projects that I’d like to start up. One of them is to use i Can Animate – software used for animation (as the more discerning reader may have surmised). I have a few ideas about developing the idea of a storyboard [...]

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I mentioned in a recent blog that I teach ICT one day per week at Rhu Primary school and this is to cover Mcrone time. Currently I am teaching Appleworks to pupils in P3,4,5,and P7. There is quite a range of abilities, so I am teaching basic word processing to the younger children, and I [...]

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Hi folks
here is a brief outline of one of the major ICT projects I was invloved in last year – I hope it might inspire some of you to get involved in using iMovie
During our P7 camp last year I did quite a bit of filming on our new(ish) school digital video camera. On our [...]

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Welcome to my blog. My name is Satwant Bance and I am a Primary School teacher working in the Argyll and Bute area. As you may have guessed, my name is not Scottish – I was born in India but have lived most of my life in England, moving to Scotland only 3 years ago.
I [...]

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