January 2026 – Flickernet

Quiz Machines

Each week when I visit Bishopstone Primary School (the smallest, most perfectly formed village school with whom I have been friends for a very long time) – they are eager to bring technology into our studies in ever more imaginative ways.

Inspired by this, I have created Quiz Machines, which allow quick assessment of any subject, using off-the-shelf equipment.

The four options that each pupil has available are important, as a teacher could deploy them many ways – for example in RE where personal perspectives and reflection allows for answers to be indicative without needing to be considered “right” or “wrong”.

Further details and an example of the code can be found here: Quiz Machine HQ – Flickernet

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January 27, 2026

InFindingOut (IFO) / Tech To Help (TTH)

School Of Solutions

Congratulations to Tammy, Bill, David, Tarcila and all the SoS team for the publication of their book,

Everything You Need to Know to Set Up a Therapeutic Alternative Provision: Exploring the School of Solutions

now available to order on Amazon.

I continue to deliver weekly sessions for the SoS in Swindon.

These are usually focused on robotics, sometimes they are sensor based, but always wellbeing assessment led: these wonderful pupils have taught me so much about ways to determine – and hence adapt to – their collective mood and readiness to learn.

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January 19, 2026

Marvellous Musical Machine / Tech To Help (TTH)

Marvellous Musical Machine II

We are delighted to be working with The Ridgeway School Special Resourced Provision Unit each week, as they become the second school to create a Marvellous Musical Machine.

Keith and I are looking forward to seeing where these pupils take the project, in light of their great ideas and enormous enthusiasm!

This week we focused on introducing core coding skills with MicroBit extensions such as the Bit Commander and servo driver board.

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January 14, 2026

Art of Conversation / Resources / Tech To Help (TTH)

The Islands Awake!

Please click here to view the virtual world that Class 9G of Crowdy’s have spent the last two terms building.

As we prepare to begin the building of two new islands for this world with Class 9C, we are reminded of what a privilege it is to witness young people applying themselves to a unique task such as this, especially given the step that they bravely took to use ChoiceBoxes to vote with.

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January 6, 2026

Art of Conversation

Insects Animated

This video clip shows the insects drawn by each of the pupils of Class 9G, coming to life on their Mushroom Meadows Island,

using Unity

– as part of the Driftwood Islands archipelago!

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January 4, 2026