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Sponsors and Exhibitors

Principal Sponsor and exhibitor for bMobLe 2016

Smoothwall

Secondary Sponsors and exhibitor

Just2Easy: Just2easy offer an online Primary Tool Suite that meets the entire Computing
Curriculum and assists teaching and learning from Reception to Key Stage 3.

The Tool Suite includes award winning coding software, award winning infant
tools and award winning digital paper. It is available on iPads and all modern
devices.

2 Simple: 2Simple Software has been making powerful and creative educational software for primary schools for over 15 years during which time they have won over 40 industry awards for their products and their customer service.

2Simple’s curriculum software is now delivered via Purple Mash, an ever growing website filled with creative tools, games and curriculum resources, for use at school and at home. Purple Mash will help teachers embed ICT across the curriculum as well teaching the discreet skills needed for the 2014 computing curriculum.

In addition to their curriculum software, 2Simple now offer the multi-award winning app 2Build a Profile which provides an effortless way to gather observations on the move in EYFS or provide formative assessment right across the primary age range.

Education City: Trusted and used in over 15,500 schools, EducationCity is the leading teaching, learning and assessment resource. Ideal for children aged 3-12 years and children with SEN of all ages, EducationCity’s engaging and interactive activities cover English, Mathematics, Science, Computing, French, Spanish and English as an additional language.
EducationCity’s educational content is mapped to UK and worldwide curricula, and can be used anytime, anywhere on various devices including whiteboards and mobile devices using Puffin Academy.

As well as engaging students in their learning, EducationCity has a number of features designed to help teachers save time in the key areas of planning, marking and assessment. They can use EducationCity to pre-plan differentiated learning for individuals or groups, and any student activity is automatically marked and stored so that teachers can filter and export the results for assessment and reporting purposes.

Exhibitors

Scholastic : Scholastic Education publishes inspirational, affordable, time-saving resources to help teachers with the Primary curriculum and has recently introduced accompanying children’s workbooks to many key series. Our full range of resources can be found on our website www.scholastic.co.uk, including our online resource banks. Known and trusted by teachers and parents for best-selling series such as Scholastic Reading Pro; English Skills; 100 Lessons; Read & Respond and Connectors. Scholastic also run in-school book clubs and book fairs, and publishes award-winning children's books. Scholastic Reading Pro is our online reading assessment tool designed to help children progress in their reading by providing the right book to the right child at the right time. If you would like to know more please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Pobble: Pobble’s mission is to create a more literate world, by giving teachers a means to inspire young writers and providing children with a global audience for their work. By showcasing school work on a worldwide, digital classroom wall, Pobble boosts imaginations and confidence, giving children personal motivation to write and be creative. Used in over 100 countries and endorsed by authors, politicians and school leaders; schools are sharing how Pobble accelerates literacy progress for their pupils. Pobble also gives teachers free access to thousands of examples of written work to inspire their lessons and a platform for sharing teaching ideas.
The Bradford Learning Network: The Bradford Learning Network (BLN) is part of Bradford Council’s Curriculum Innovation Team providing education driven broadband provision currently used by over 88,000 pupils across Bradford schools, including Academies and free schools. Established in 2001 following a school led procurement process, the BLN contract 2016 - 2019 provides all BLN connected schools with cost effective access to fast, filtered and secure connectivity enabling educational establishments to utilise online resources and connected technologies effectively within their teaching and learning, safeguarding and school improvement agendas. Designed in partnership with Headteachers, Business Managers and Network Managers this collaborative network meets the technical needs of educational establishments and has been approved by Bradford Schools, for Bradford Schools.
STEM: All our programmes and projects are designed to have a positive impact on participants to ensure that we have a high impact on the STEM education of young people. We work towards our vision that all young people, across the UK should receiving a world-leading STEM education. By making it easy for teachers and others involved in STEM education to access subject-specific, high impact professional development and quality-assured resources, so they can teach effectively and inspire the young people with whom they work. All our activities are grounded in appropriate education and scientific research supported by clear evidence of impact.
NAACE: Naace is the National Education Technology Association. We are the association for all proud Ed Tech users, people who improve outcomes for learners through the use of Ed Tech. Visit our stand to find out about our eGuides, our Open Badge accreditation for Technicians, our pupil engagement survey, and many more reasons to be a Naace member.
Night Zookeeper: Night Zookeeper is a website that helps primary school students develop their writing skills. It does this through competition and with an engaging story. The Night Zookeeper website is accompanied by a popular children’s story entitled ‘Night Zookeeper and the Spying Giraffes’. This project is proven to have a huge impact on writing levels, with teachers reporting a whole year of progress in just one term.
Ombea: Ombea is a powerful voting system designed around you. Engage your class with our ResponsePads or let them work with their own smartphones, and analyse as you go with our powerful reporting suite. Visit our website to learn more and read our insightful articles, all designed to help you thrive.
Jaguar Maths in Motion:The Jaguar Maths Challenge for schools is a fast paced, exciting way of allowing students to engage with mathematics in a real world context. Using maths skills, pupils set up their car to race around one of the famous circuits from across the world such as Silverstone or Monaco. Knockout rounds for the World Final take place through the year with the top primary and secondary schools being invited to attend the final and compete to be the world winners! This is perfect for STEM based learning. Bradford schools can purchase the software, and also compete in the Bradford challenge through the ICT team.
Avantis has been delivering educational technology for the classroom for over 20 years and are passionate about making technology easier to use within the classroom. The ethos of challenging the status quo by developing simple, effective and innovative solutions to classroom challenges and continually improving classroom technology has enabled Avantis to make LearnPad one of the most recognisable brands in the UK education tablet market. Avantis continually search for innovative solutions to classrooms problems, and strive to make products that are not only simple to use, but cost effective for schools. Developing products and solutions with the classroom in mind allows Avantis to use new technologies to help solve common classroom problems in unique ways, providing schools with simple solutions with a low total cost of ownership and easy management. Avantis’ phenomenal growth has seen the LearnPad solution being used globally in over 20 countries from the Middle East to North America. Over 140,000 LearnPads are now used in over 10,000 schools worldwide, reaching more than 3 million children.

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Breakout Sessions

Session 1 Breakouts

Beyond Scratch - Aspiring game designers - Burley Oaks Primary School and Steve Dale

Scratch is a great tool to teach programming but sometimes pupils may feel the need to try something a bit more testing! In the Bradford computing scheme we advocate the use of games design to enthuse young people in the art of programming – but what happens when you want to go further?

We have been using Construct 2- an industry standard 2D games programming tool with 2 primary schools and we would like to share our experiences with you.

Pobble.com - Simon Blower

Pobble.com is an exciting way of using technology to making writing truly inspirational for children.
Created by teachers and school leaders, Pobble was originally intended as a simple on-line bank of children’s writing to give other professionals in education from around the world ideas for their practice. However, what developed was a large worldwide community of enthusiastic people all passionate about children’s writing. This innovative website is now taking the education world by storm! Many schools are now using this wonderful tool as a spectacular way to raise writing standards and enjoyment, as well as dynamically engaging proud parents, carers and the wider school community.
This workshop will share with you a range of brilliant free resources and ideas which teachers can use and access immediately to impact on writing in schools. They will also share how Pobble publishes, shares and celebrates children’s writing with the world on a safe and secure platform. As well as being absolutely inspirational to young writers, one of the reasons why Pobble has taken off in so many schools is that it has been created with the busy teacher in mind! It takes a matter of seconds to submit work to the site; Pobble does all of the rest! Pupils adore the site and monitoring the numbers of views and comments on their writing, as well as finding out which countries their readers are from!

For the Students, By the Students - Digital Leadership - Myrtle Park Primary School

How introducing the digital leadership program to school has impacted on the whole school learning and use of ICT and computing equipment and the personal effect it has had on the students involved.

Coderdojo - Shi and Kriss Blank

CoderDojo is an open source, volunteer led movement orientated around running free not-for-profit coding clubs and regular sessions for young people. At Dojos, young people between 5 and 17 learn how to code, develop websites, apps, programs, games and more. Dojos are set up, run by and taught at by volunteers. In addition to learning to code, members meet like minded people, show off what they’ve been working on and so on. CoderDojo makes development and learning to code a fun, sociable experience. The Bradford CoderDojo meets once a month on a Saturday morning at the Innovation Centre. This session will showcase some of the activities we run at the Dojo and how you can get involved as a volunteer or by bringing your own children.

Session 2 Breakouts

Sherkey Flatts and the mystery of the disappearing iPad - Anna Cole from SS Peter and Paul Primary School and Paul Scott

Last year we launched an interactive multimedia detective adventure based on our detective hero 'Sherkey Flatts' and his challenge of solving 'the mystery of the disappearing iPad.' This was a web based interactive adventure aimed at Y5 and Y6 children who accessed 'clues' from a variety of digital media and using a lot of inference and deduction solved the mystery. This session will outline the activities the children undertook and Anna Cole, Deputy Headteacher at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Primary school in Yeadon, will discuss how this impacted on attainment and engagement with her children. We will also be outlining the next adventure starting in the Summer term 2016 called Sherkey Flatts and the mystery of the re-appearing pictures.

Read, analyse, annotate, publish - Bowling Park Primary School and Tim Bleazard

How can we allow all pupils to capture their thoughts, opinions, suggestions then share them with others? The staff and pupils at Bowling Park Primary School will explain how they used apps to analyse writing, record their opinions and suggest improvements before saving them in a format that allowed them to be printed and shared in pupil books. The school has used digital leaders to pioneer this approach and will explain how techniques have been shared across class over two sites. Although this technique focussed on improving writing it can be used for other subjects. The apps used are available for iPads as well as Android tablets and Windows devices.

3rd Millennium Learning Awards - Carl Faulkner and Normanby Primary School

Staff and Governors at Normanby Primary School have created an environment where the sharing of innovation and expertise are building a community of practice that is vibrant and successful.

Normanby Primary is a large Primary School in the North East of England. They achieved the 3rd Millennium Learning Award in 2013, almost by accident and despite their best endeavours to focus on teaching and not technology. This presentation will illustrate how the school has created an environment for learning, for pupils and staff that makes full use of the opportunities presented by technology.

Using Technology to Enhance the S in STEM - Karen Brunyee

Time lapse photography, overnight recording of data, Wi-Fi microscopes and movie making! All these tools are available to support your class whilst Working Scientifically. In this session you will explore available technology such as dataloggers, digital portable microscopes and iPad apps to support your class record, collect, analyse and report their scientific findings.

Session 3 Breakouts

Video killed the radio star - James Langley

Many primary schools use audio and video across the curriculum with their pupils to engage and enhance their learning. There are many schools who have spent a lot of money on filming solutions that may not have been used as effectively as they could be. In this breakout James and Hawksworth Wood Primary School will demonstrate how video can be scripted, created, edited and published on a shoestring budget. They will be using iPads to demonstrate a number of apps and other software and online resources that allow simple ‘workflow’ to create a polished finished video product. Apps will include iMovie, Green Screen by Do Ink, RecoLive MultiCam, Tellagami, Dropbox and Vimeo.

Lads and Dads iRead project - St Francis Catholic Primary and Paul Scott

In January 2016 St Francis Primary School will be piloting a project to improve oracy and reading with Year 1 and 2 children through the use of iPads. The project is aimed specifically at encouraging Dads to spend more time with their sons sharing books and reading together. Each parent will be provided with an IPad mini preloaded with a range of interactive texts, exemplar reading videos and a 90 minute training session on how to use the device effectively with their children. This session will be presented with staff from the school discussing the practicalities of delivering the project and the impact on the pupils attainment and attitudes to reading. We will also model some of the activities undertaken by the parents.

Apps to support writing - Martin Bailey

A hands-on workshop exploring the best apps for supporting pupils' writing at both KS1 and KS2. Bring your curriculum to life with a range of exciting apps for both fictional and non-fiction writing. Apps showcased make full use of current tablet technology and inspire pupils to create high quality writing in all areas of the curriculum. Simple, yet wonderfully effective ideas that you can immediately take back and implement in school.

Creative use of tablets in the classroom - Hannah Davies

This session will encompass how to use tablets creatively in the classroom drawing upon examples from key schools around the country. We’ll be discussing how best to use the technology to engage and enthuse learners.

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Keynote Speakers

The journey towards a digital school – is it all about the tech?

Rachel Orr and Martin Bailey

This session will explore how to make the most of technology even when budgets are tight. It’s about looking at ways in which we can simplify technology and embed it across the curriculum into the fabric of the classroom so that it’s an everyday part of the learning. It will show how teachers can make effective use of whatever their setting already has in place. The session will support leaders of computing in inspiring other staff members to be digitally confident as well as having the knowhow to drive and empower staff to get the best for the children. During the session colleagues will delve into the power of being a socially connected school for both staff, children, parents and governors. Staff fears of using social media will be stripped away by demonstrating how effective a one-stop shop can be for a digitally connected school.

Adventures in Media

John Devlin

The story of the adventures that the children in two Keighley Catholic Primary schools are having using the media of radio, TV and online journalism. Learn how Fabmag, Albus Cubus and radiOlv are raising standards, confidence and aspirations, whilst giving those involved a huge amount of fun!

John Devlin has been a headteacher in Keighley for 10 years, working firstly at Our Lady of Victories and now also as Executive Headteacher of St. Joseph’s. John is a strong advocate of creativity both in and beyond the classroom, firmly believing that primary school should be an adventure and that using the latest technology can enhance this. He is also a Local Leader of Education and has supported a number of schools around the region. John lives and works in Keighley, has two lovely children who attend Our Lady of Victories and is married to Beth. He is also a big Star Wars fan and has far too many toys in his office for a grown man!

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Agenda

Thursday 10 March 2016 @ the Life Centre Bradford, BD3 0EQ

Our 8th bMobLe conference theme is 'Aspiring to succeed'.

The Conference will include keynotes and workshops around mobile learning as well as sharing best practices with regard to using technology creatively to raise attainment and engagement across the curriculum.

This is the planned agenda for this year’s conference.

08:45 – 09:15 Registration & refreshments

09:15 – 09:25 Conference welcome - Paul Scott

09:25 – 10:10 Keynote 1: Rachel Orr and Martin Bailey

10:15 – 11:00 Breakout session 1

11:00 – 11:20 Refreshment break

11:25 – 12:10 Breakout session 2

12:10 – 13:30 Lunch and visit exhibitors

13:00– 13:25 Lunchtime breakout from Smoothwall on the Prevent module

13:30 – 14:15 Keynote 2: John Devlin with Our Lady of Victories Catholic Primary & St. Joseph's Catholic Primary, Keighley

14.15 – 15:00 Breakout session 3

15:10 – 15:30 Conference plenary and prize draw

16:00 Teachmeet

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Speakers

	Rachel Orr is an established head teacher in the north east of England. Rachel brings 25 years’ experience to education and is passionate about the use of technology in curriculum development. Rachel believes that all children have a right to high quality teaching and learning. Quality teaching and learning, the core business of the school, is built upon developing good relationships between the child, teacher and parent, centred on mutual trust, respect and a joint understanding of agreed aims and expectations. Driving education policy requires strength in leadership and vision. Rachel places a high value on strong leadership skills, with a great awareness of the need for consultation, negotiation and compromise if one is to gain real commitment, support and involvement in the decision making process. For Rachel, education policy is about sticking to our core beliefs and being true to our children and ourselves with the resounding result that we are alive with learning. Brilliant education policy supports the inclusive nature of ‘inviting, including, involving and inspiring’ EVERYONE in EVERYTHING we do. Driving education policy is about persuasion power and not position power. The right to lead and drive education policy is given by those who agree to follow and that must never been taken for granted. Education policy is about being free. Free to learn what you want. Free to drive learning where you want. Free to shape learning how you want.
	Martin Bailey is director of Animate 2 Educate Ltd and has been a Primary School teacher in the North East of England for the past sixteen years. In his role with Animate 2 Educate he delivers pupil workshops and staff training sessions in schools around the UK on all aspects of the Primary Computing curriculum. He specialises in the use of tablet technology and is passionate about how technology can be used to enhance teaching and learning. Alongside his role with Animate 2 Educate, Martin teaches at Lanchester EP Primary School (Co Durham) and delivers Computing lessons to all classes from EYFS – Year 6. Martin writes a monthly column for ‘Primary Teacher Update’ magazine and is currently writing his new book, ‘A Healthy Appetite’.
	John Devlin has been a headteacher in Keighley for 10 years, working firstly at Our Lady of Victories and now also as Executive Headteacher of St. Joseph’s. John is a strong advocate of creativity both in and beyond the classroom, firmly believing that primary school should be an adventure and that using the latest technology can enhance this. He is also a Local Leader of Education and has supported a number of schools around the region. John lives and works in Keighley, has two lovely children who attend Our Lady of Victories and is married to Beth. He is also a big Star Wars fan and has far too many toys in his office for a grown man!
	John Redding was born in Nigeria, West Africa in 1971, returning to this country with his parents in 1979. After finishing school and a college course in catering management he went into the West Yorkshire Police, where he served for 19 years as a police officer. On leaving John was a volume crime management sergeant, qualified to the rank of Inspector. John studied a degree in public services management full-time while working full-time in the police achieving a first class honours.He left the police in 2012 owing to a knee injury which meant that he had become desk-bound. John is happily married and has two children aged 12 and 14. He has coached children to play rugby for 7 years and is the safeguarding officer for his local rugby club.
	Anna Cole is the Deputy Headteacher and Year 5 teacher at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Primary in Yeadon. She has been a teacher for 12 years, a senior leader for 6 and is a Specialist Leader in Education for Curriculum, Writing and Assessment. She is also a writing moderator for Leeds Education Authority. She is passionate about children’s learning behaviour and delivering a purposeful curriculum. She designed the Ss. Peter and Paul curriculum so that it is thematic and allows the children to develop the skills of independence, self-motivation, self-reflection and resilience to take ownership of their own learning.
	Paul Scott has over 18 years of Primary school teaching experience both in the UK and abroad. He has been a Curriculum Innovation Consultant with the team since 2004 and became Curriculum Innovation Service manager in 2012. His role involves working strategically with local, regional and national partners ensuring the service’s provision continually evolves to meet the needs of schools, community and local business. He is a qualified E-Safety Mark Assessor and a CEOP Ambassador. He is passionate about utilising new and emerging technologies to develop pedagogies allowing pupils to become engaged and independent lifelong learners.
	Steve Dale has worked as a forensic toxicologist but after a chance encounter with a computer in 1982 started working in schools who were slowly embracing new technology. Steve has since worked in 3 local authorities and over 450 schools developing a wealth of experience and knowledge as well as qualifying as an OfSTED inspector. He has been a Curriculum Innovation Consultant since 2002 with expertise in CMS, VLEs, databases, electronic music and he specialises in programming, control and developing Apps. He is a qualified E-Safety Mark Assessor and a CEOP Ambassador.
	Tim Bleazard has over 20 years experience as a primary school teacher and in 2009 he was seconded to Challenge City Learning Centre working with schools to increase their understanding and use of a range of new and emerging technologies. He joined the team as a Curriculum Innovation Consultant in 2012. Tim is a qualified E-Safety Mark Assessor, a CEOP Ambassador, Apple APD accredited and a Google Certified Teacher. Tim’s role includes evaluating a range of mobile devices (Apple, Android and Microsoft) and advising on their appropriate use in schools. He leads the very successful ‘Media Literacy Leaders’ project in partnership with City of Film, the British Film Institute and Cape UK.
	Claire Sykes is a teacher and lead practitioner for writing at Bowling Park Primary School. Finding creative ways to engage pupils with writing is a key focus for the school this academic year. As a result, staff in year 5 have begun to use APPS to allow the pupils to plan, edit and improve their writing in lessons.
	James Langley has 11 years experience as a primary school teacher including 5 years as an AST in the effective use of ICT in the classroom. He joined Bradford's Curriculum Innovation Service in 2008 as a Curriculum Innovation Consultant and is a qualified E-Safety Mark Assessor, CEOP Ambassador and Apple Professional Development Authorised Trainer. James is one of the co-founders of bMobLe. The majority of the work he delivers for the Innovation Centre is training using mobile technology, delivering computing training, cross curricular IT training, (e)Safeguarding, teacher planning sessions and modelled lessons with pupils. He has presented nationally and internationally on the effective use of geocaching in schools.
	Hawksworth Wood Primary School is proud to be central to the local community, serving children and their families. We provide a stimulating and caring environment where everyone associated with the school is devoted to providing the very best opportunities for all its children.
	Simon Blower, Pobble co-fouder Simon’s 15-year teaching career culminated in a Deputy Headship in a North Yorkshire Primary school. Simon consulted for various educational organisations before deciding to use his expertise in education and school leadership to grow Pobble and help impact thousands of pupils around the world.
	Carl Faulkner is the Head teacher of a large Primary Academy in the North East of England, and is a National Leader of Education. He has worked as an Additional Inspector and currently supports improvement work in two other Schools. Carl was amongst the first Head teachers in the UK to try to tackle educational under attainment and lack of engagement through innovation in the curriculum, approaches to teaching and the use of mobile technology. For the last 10 years his pupils have benefitted from a curriculum and teaching based around both their needs and supported through the use of 1:1 technology. Pupils at Normanby have recorded music at Abbey Road, slept in the wild on a remote island and have partnerships with children and schools around the globe, reflecting his view of a broad and engaging curriculum. When not at work Carl coordinates the actions of a Mountain Rescue Team and is both a failing Triathlete and proud Dad.
	Ros Archer currently teaches computing throughout Burley Oaks Primary School. Her focus is to develop the curriculum from Reception to Year 6 working with class teachers to build on their own skills and to design and deliver exciting learning opportunities for their children. This is her second year in this role after a career as a class teacher in the Primary sector. As the children quickly develop their capability our challenge is to ensure that our curriculum responds to their enthusiasm through using a variety of resources while attempting to keep up with their expertise!
	Karen Brunyee trained as a Primary Teacher after completing a degree in Biology at Hull. She has worked in different North Yorkshire schools for 14 years, teaching across the whole Primary Phase from EYFS to Year 6 and was subject leader for Science, D&T, PE and ICT. During a career break, Karen worked with the New Zealand Department of Conservation to help conserve native species consolidating her love of the outdoors and ecology. She has also spent time teaching in a very rural school on Lake Victoria in Kenya, where they had a zero carbon footprint, something she is intent on reducing in her own practise. Karen now works as a Professional Development Leader in Primary STEM at the National STEM Learning Centre, delivering CPD to Primary Teachers.