End of Year

A week in to the summer, and time to pause for a moment and reflect on my 2nd year back teaching after my break...
It was a bit of a headlong year, with plenty of successes, and more learning from me as I got used to the rhythm of the year, and squeezed in visits to many places and wrote many tens of thousands of words too...
Next year promises to be even more exciting, and action packed, and I'll blog about that nearer the end of summer...

Here's an image I took in the Cathedral at the end of the service to mark the end of year.

I'll be back in 6 weeks or so, to start the third year of this blog, but for now, have a great summer!
Thanks to all those who have visited and read... 

An award for King's Ely

From the Principal's end of year letter....

We heard that we had been nominated for an award from Education Business Awards, an organisation in its tenth year of providing recognition for successful investment in education across all sectors of Primary and Secondary education nationally.

We don’t know who nominated us, but we are very grateful to whoever it was because, at the award ceremony in London today, we won the ICT Facility Award for the ‘educational establishment in the UK that has made outstanding progress in the provision of a first class environment for the teaching of ICT and related subjects’.
The entry in the programme read:

King’s Ely is quickly gaining a reputation as a trailblazer when it comes to the use of ICT. Despite its mediaeval buildings, the school is making advancements in ICT provision including four computer rooms, Bring-Your-Own-Device initiatives and taking part in a Europe-wide Erasmus project to build digital resources.