We have written a few blog posts over the years and sometimes they can get mislaid. Think of this page as a Lost Property Office...
Sparky's Chain of Creativity...
"Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference..."
Austin Kleon
Food for thought...
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck
Sparky reviews...
"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)
Learning Through A Lens by Jane Hewitt
Unhomework by Mark Creasy
The Best Job In The World by Vic Goddard
Independent Thinking by Ian Gilbert
Perfect ICT Every Lesson by Mark Anderson
Thinking Allowed: On Schooling by Mick Waters
The Most Important Book You Could Read As A Teacher
A Cabinet of Curiosities by Dr Matthew McFall
Full On Learning by Zoë Elder
How To Teach by Phil Beadle
Brave Heads by Dave Harris
Thoughtings by Peter Worley and Andrew Day
My School Improvement Doodle Book by Ben Keeling
The Discipline Coach by Jim Roberson
Follow Me, I'm Right Behind You by Jim Smith
Oops! by Hywel Roberts
They Did You Can by Michael Finnigan
Three Chairs, A Table And A Lamp (DVD)
Mind Your PEQs by Michael Brearley
The Little Book Of Big Stuff About The Brain by Andrew Curran
The Big Book Of Independent Thinking edited by Ian Gilbert
The Magic Of Metaphor by Nick Owen
Children's books / illustration
"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
C.S. Lewis
Bambert's Book Of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung
Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snicket
The Champion Hare by Gwen Christie
Press Here by Hervé Tullet
Two Owls, Seven Trees And Some Valuable Lessons by Ian Gilbert
The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Classroom Ideas...
"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."
Charles Mingus
Top 10 Tips For Teaching Word Problems
Related to resources
"Our job is not to have students do well in school. It is to have students do well in life."
Elliot Eisner
Free CPD/PD Posters: You'll Fly!
The 5 Minute 'Oops'-Based Lesson Plan
Ten 5 Minute Primary Lesson Plan
12 Days Of Christmas - Investigational Maths
Classroom Posters: Caution! Minds At Work
Coding/Design
"People ignore design that ignores people."
Frank Chimero
Miscellaneous
"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." John Steinbeck
Sparky reviews...
"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)
Learning Through A Lens by Jane Hewitt
Unhomework by Mark Creasy
The Best Job In The World by Vic Goddard
Independent Thinking by Ian Gilbert
Perfect ICT Every Lesson by Mark Anderson
Thinking Allowed: On Schooling by Mick Waters
The Most Important Book You Could Read As A Teacher
A Cabinet of Curiosities by Dr Matthew McFall
Full On Learning by Zoë Elder
How To Teach by Phil Beadle
Brave Heads by Dave Harris
Thoughtings by Peter Worley and Andrew Day
My School Improvement Doodle Book by Ben Keeling
The Discipline Coach by Jim Roberson
Follow Me, I'm Right Behind You by Jim Smith
Oops! by Hywel Roberts
They Did You Can by Michael Finnigan
Three Chairs, A Table And A Lamp (DVD)
Mind Your PEQs by Michael Brearley
The Little Book Of Big Stuff About The Brain by Andrew Curran
The Big Book Of Independent Thinking edited by Ian Gilbert
The Magic Of Metaphor by Nick Owen
Children's books / illustration
"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." C.S. Lewis
Bambert's Book Of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung
Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snicket
The Champion Hare by Gwen Christie
Press Here by Hervé Tullet
Two Owls, Seven Trees And Some Valuable Lessons by Ian Gilbert
The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Classroom Ideas...
"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."
Charles Mingus
Top 10 Tips For Teaching Word Problems
Related to resources
"Our job is not to have students do well in school. It is to have students do well in life."
Elliot Eisner
Free CPD/PD Posters: You'll Fly!
The 5 Minute 'Oops'-Based Lesson Plan
Ten 5 Minute Primary Lesson Plan
12 Days Of Christmas - Investigational Maths
Classroom Posters: Caution! Minds At Work
Coding/Design
"People ignore design that ignores people."
Frank Chimero
Miscellaneous
"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)