ICT in School

Kieran is looking forward to a photoshoot tomorrow 6th May 09, with the Birmingham Mail for an article about ICT in Kieran's school Hollywood Primary School.

Since we started this journey as the Digital Family, Kieran was only interested in computer games that were play games rather than learning games. Kieran would lose interest if I told him I was putting in a learning disc into the PC. That was until we were told about a site called matheletics, this site is very competitive and Kieran enjoys the challenge of playing simple to hard questions on math's and competing with other children from around the world. As Kieran is very competitive this site is perfect it adds excitement to learning and what Kieran does not realise he is learning math's but having fun to and the more he plays the quicker he is getting at speed on answering math's questions.

For instance Kieran was playing with children from Australia and Canada the weekend competing for his bronze award. These websites are perfect and very clever for learning and keeping the enthusiasm going among children.

We were given a booklet on the Birmingham Grid for Learning www.bgfl.org this website is full of web links to Key stage 1,2, 3 & 4 plus many more. This website www.bgfl.org I think every parent should keep it in their favorites.