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Fabulous first day yesterday with my Year 5 pupils from Birchwood Primary School (Tamworth) on their residential trip to the North East of England. We couldn’t have asked for better weather and had an amazing time visiting the Angel of the North and exploring Durham Cathedral.

Another fabulous day yesterday with my Y5 pupils from Birchwood Primary School (Tamworth) on the second day of their residential trip to the North East. We enjoyed a glorious walk around Newcastle in the sunshine, taking in all the sights and learning about the history.

Happy Star Wars Day everyone . . . May 4th be with you all! #StarWarsDay

Great visit to Acomb First School (Northumberland) today. Visited for the first time before Easter to create a bespoke Computing curriculum for the school and then returned today to deliver the staff meeting and to share the new curriculum with the staff.

Discover, Create & Innovate with Micro:Bits! A hands-on KS2 course for teachers & TAs. Build coding confidence, explore cross-curricular links & get classroom-ready ideas. £49/£75 | 1–3:15pm | Various NE venues in June. Book: [email protected]

Great staff meeting at Annfield Plain Junior School tonight. Session on best use of ‘Purple Mash’ (from 2Simple 💻 ) and introducing staff to great new features such as ‘2Cast’, a fabulous podcast creating tool. Fab for developing oracy skills throughout the curriculum.

Lovely day at Ellington today, celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day with a fabulous red, white and blue picnic on the school field with our pupils and families. A really memorable day to mark a special occasion. #VEDay #VEDay80

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Great day of unplugged computing and developing computational thinking skills with my Reception pupils at Ellington today. Planned a wide range of practical activities that allowed pupils to develop patterns and sequences and for us to be able to explore various concepts.

Great to bump into Liam Murphy before the Newcastle match yesterday and have a nice catch-up with one of the nicest guys in the education world.

Great couple of days at St.John’s CE Primary School (Walsall Wood, West Midlands). Delivered staff training sessions both last night and this evening on helping the staff to get the most out of Purple Mash from 2Simple 💻

Fabulous night at the Education Resources Awards in Birmingham! Honoured to return as a judge, joined this year by my good friend Neil Coleman. Great to catch up with familiar faces & meet new ones. Huge respect to all entrants – choosing winners wasn’t easy!

Delighted to welcome my good friend dawnhallybone 🙋🏼‍♀️ from 2Simple 💻 to Birchwood today for the first time! Fantastic CPD for our subject leaders on making the most of Purple Mash, plus a tour and chance to meet our amazing pupils. Come back soon! 💜💻✨

Enjoying looking back on a fabulous night at the Education Resources Awards in Birmingham on Thursday. Wonderful evening celebrating the best resources in education. Proud to have been one of the judges and deeply honoured to have already been asked to be a judge again in 2026.

At Birchwood, we warmly welcome feedback from all who visit our school. Last month we had visitors who shared some very positive comments about their visit. Click here to read what they had to say: files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/502768…

Delighted to visit Whitehouse Primary School (North Shields) for the first time today. Consultancy session with the Computing Subject Leader to develop a bespoke Computing curriculum for the school.

International Reading Conference: Session announcement!💥 🗣️ Join Martin Bailey, Digital Enrichment Leader at Ellington Primary School (Northumberland), Director of Martin Bailey and Lecturer in Primary Computing at Sunderland University, for his session, which will explore:

Great Purple Mash CPD session at Beverley School (Middlesbrough) today working with staff to help them fully utilise Purple Mash (by 2Simple 💻 ) for the teaching of Computing. Beverley is a specialist school catering for pupils with autism from age 4 - 18.

Great to catch-up for a coffee yesterday with my good friend Paul Tullock from the Laidlaw Schools Trust . Always lots of exciting things to discuss whenever we meet and time always just flies by. ☕️

Great end to the half-term delivering training to 400 delegates from the Extol Trust alongside Carol Allen today at Hardwick Hall Hotel. My two sessions were on effective use of AI. The morning session was on ‘workload reduction’ and afternoon on ‘adaptive task design’.