MrBitey

Definitely. As an ex primary teacher, I used to make the 'guess Sir's first name' game as boring as possible. First time I was asked or even on my first day with a class I would tell them and say that we don't use that name in class as a matter of respect.

Bashing my head off the wall with Bromcom over the last week or so!

You know, I should have worded that better. I actually meant form/tutor/registration groups as this is a primary school... Thanks very much for the reply anyway!

Hi there, I'm investigating if it is possible to have a pupil enrolled in two registration groups at once. Basically the pupil is in a special SEN reg groupbut will be gradually integrated into one of the main groups. It's going to happen incrementally and depending on how it goes on a daily basis. So some days they will be in one and some days in the other... Any ways of having one pupil show up in two different registers?

That's an idea to try... Thanks. I might have to unplug the PI and take it home - take Smoothwall out of the equation as it is putting extra hurdles in my path!

Hi all, I have a conundrum I am trying to solve. We have a Raspberry Pi running Linutop Kiosk in our reception area to greet visitors. It displays a Google Site and has been working very well. I have just had to re-make the page in New Google Sites as old Google sites is being 'switched off' soon. Basically, when the new page loads, Google's Cookie notification pops up and wants the user to click 'Got It' to dismiss it. Annoyingly though, in Kiosk mode I don't seem to be able to do this. If I click, all that happens is the page reloads. I've tried right/middle clicking as well as ctrl/alt clicking and so on. Each time the page just reloads and the pop-up reappears. Scratching my head to figure out a workaround which doesn't involve starting from scratch with a new Linux flavour. Any ideas/experience/suggestions? Thanks!!

Me please!

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I've gone for a QTX-QR15PA and a stand. Fingers crossed the head will be happy!

Hi all, Our head has tasked me with sourcing a PA for us to use during sports day. We are lucky to have lots of wide open space and the head wants to commentate on the races as they happen. So, it needs to be loud but also battery-powered as the fields are a fair way away from the school building. This is well reviewed: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bose-S1-System-Bluetooth-Speaker/dp/B07D4JJNSD but doesn't look that large so I am not sure if it will be loud enough. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!!

New notification for an additional ten

DfE suddenly have some more laptops for us... Interesting!

Thanks for all the Purple Mash recommendations. I've always been a bit anti those kind of suites, particularly when I end up teaching the lessons myself. But, the Computingcoordinator is keen on teachers taking more responsibility for their own IT teaching, and I guess PM would definitely help with that.

Thanks TechMonkey. The ICT Coordinator is having a look at Purple Mash for next year so that might be an answer. I am not sure we are going to be able to afford it though, budgets being what they are. So having a scour for a freebie...

Hi all, we've been using 2Simple's 2Animate for basic animation projects in Year 2 and 3. It does the job but I'm looking for something similar which is based online so that I can use it on our Chromebooks. Year 2 usually do animations of Tudor houses burning down to tie in with their Great Fire of London topic. I've had a look but what I've found so far is a bit too complicated for the little'uns! Any suggestions? Thanks very much in advance!

Brilliant! I will put in a purchase order for one right now!