Creative Blogs

Green Park Primary School was the first primary school set up by Creative Blogs in 2005. The infectious vision and inspiration of teacher Peter Rafferty (@raff31) continues to allow the use of blogs to flourish across the school.

The Green Park homepage blog has recently been redesigned to combine the components of a traditional school website with those dynamic features of a learning community using blogs. In the current tight financial climate it makes sense to make use of the design flexibility of blogs to avoid the costs of running a separate school website.

Click on the image to be taken to Green Park’s school- and blog-site.

Creative Blogs set up Heathfield Community Primary School with a WordPress multi-site blogging platform late in 2009. They have not looked back since, making great use of blogs to provide their pupils with a real purpose and audience for their writing, as well as a platform to celebrate their learning and achievements.

David Mitchell, Deputy Headteacher at  Heathfield has recently received a Naace ICT Impact Award for his work on ‘creative and exceedingly well read blogging in schools.’

Creative Blogs regularly set up free learning projects and opportunities for educators to explore the power of using blogs and other online applications with pupils.

The Blog the World Cup idea was simple: there were 32 nations in the FIFA World Cup and there were 32 blogs on the Blog the World Cup site, one for each competing nation. Each blog was managed by a class (or school) and a live online draw took place to allocate classes/schools to the different country blogs. There were many exciting highlights including comments from the German Ambassador
and over 500,000 hits in the project’s first 4 weeks.

Click on the image to explore the site.