A Kiwi Jingle Bells

A good friend, Ali in New Zealand sent this book and CD to the pupils at Stepping Stones. Thank you Ali.

Ultraversity Graduation ceremony

Chelmsford Cathedral

Hiking along Shoeburyness coastline

Scouts from 3rd Billericay, Orion Troop, took part in a hiking challenge today, walking 12 miles from Shoeburyness to Benfleet.

Tracey builds a blog site before heading off to NZ

Bonfire night late

Art at Stepping Stones School

Clockwise: Michael, Jo, Amy and Jessica

Science at Bohunt school

Pupils carried out scientific enquiry into the reaction between metals and an acid.

TTA conference on video conferencing

Learning platforms, Rock Idol, classroom uses etc

Turkeys

Must be that time of year again. This is very much on a par with animal shapes made from skillfully cut hedges.

Hindhead

Work on the A3 tunnel through the Devil's Punchbowl starts soon. Hurrah

You can never have too much of a good thing

Adventure Island, Southend

Train to Southend

With my nephew...

Tree surgery

Once up, I struggled to get down again after cutting off a branch below me.

Bill Redpath from Australia runs a music workshop at Stepping Stones

Pupils had a fantastic time listening to Bill's background and music career. They sang together and enjoyed sharing a passion in music.

London again

Heading to Victoria station.

Maria talks to Dan about his creative work

Maria has studied computer animation at degree level and shows her portfolio of work to Dan.

Evening reception at BAFTA

Food was delicious. Great being around lots of creative people.

Bored

Slow

Beautiful day for sailing

... Lots of wind and sunshine.

Cracker sailing today

Came second in the first race, haven't got result for last race yet.

Video conferencing using iChat

Stephen Heppell shares his wisdom on distributed models of schooling

Uh oh

Some of the climbs were tricky

Mountain biking in Keswick last weekend

The Total Objects Adventure challenge took place last weekend. This is the view half way along the course.

The star of the evening... Lucy loves it.

Research conclusion: squirting this straight into the mouth saves on the washing up.

Lucy thought she escaped. She didn't.

... poor Lucy. We downloaded videos from iTunes music store and played Twister

Sandy, Amy and Jack

This from a lovely evening in my pad tonight. Pizza and nibbles with chocolate squirty cream and ice cream.

At my pad

Larry sings karaoke style, Amy enjoys the music - not.

Drinks and nibbles at Jonathan's apartment

I invited fellow apartment residents to my pad for wine and food. Here's what's left after a fun packed evening

Cycling: in training for Total Objects Adventure Challenge

Our cycle ride took us to Frensham Little Pond and Frensham Ponds. Probably no more than 6 miles unlike the 15 or so that we need to do on this challenge.

Lucy and Amy riding Beaver and Chesey

Riding around the grounds before giving the horses a bit of a scrub and clean before supper and bedtime.

My first blog post sent from my K610i mobile phone

Ok, so it's a tiny bit sad posting my first mobile blog article with a photograph of me, but hey, it works.

How many giraffe posts does it take to identify the really great software from the ok ish ones

This is my quest to find out what software is available for children to build websites, using simple user interfaces, yet offering feature rich environments to meet their best ambitions for what they want to achieve.

This site is really to find out how feature rich Blogger.com is these days


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