First day back with the children today which is always good, finally getting them in to the classroom to see whether your furniture arranging was totally futile or not! I was pleased to see with my new Year 5 class that I have more space than I first thought I would. Perhaps I was imagining my Year 6 lot from last year!

So we got straight into talking about the class blog and as I did last year we posted our agreed set of class rules on our blog for you all to read. Those who have been following this space for a while will know that I used to have the Priestsic6 blog – that has now been passed onto Sarah Stamp the teacher taking over my Year 6 role. I have in turn inherited the Priestsic 5 blog which was begun by Mr O’Brien last year.

As ever we would love to hear your comments about our class rules and any connections you would like to make with our class of 9-10 year old kids. Our class laptops arrive tomorrow so I hope to increase the amount of blogging work we do in Year 5 with this technology at our fingertips – perhaps we can get reading your class blogs very soon.

Following on from my post regarding the use of Flickr I was kindly sent a link to FlickrCC, a search engine drawing solely from Flickr’s Creative Commons licensed images. After a quick look it is easy to use – your results are presented in a wall of thumbnail images which is really clear, gives you a range of sizes to download and an attribution link as well – making it all very easy to find great quality imagery. Many thanks to Joseph Williams at Sunrise Elementary School, Glendale Arizona for the link.

I hope you all had a good back to school day/s – and don’t forget to leave an encouraging comment for my young bloggers – we will be checking tomorrow!