30000 visits.

On Saturday morning this blog received its 30000th visitor. I don't know who it was but I'm very grateful.

When I started this blog in March 2009 I had no idea that anyone would want to read anything that I had to say and I'm still not convinced that they do.

My original idea was to review online resources which I had tried with my classes. Then my posts became more reflective and people started to take interest in my ideas.

The most popular post I have written is "Effective Feedback for Students" which still gets 20 or so hits each week (and is my personal favourite) but I get a lot of visitors who end up here after googling the word "coffee", too.

Anyway, whoever you are and however you got here, I just wanted to say, "Thank you."

Some more resources...

Here is another post linking to some very good resources.

This time it's the Sutton Academy.

These resources are mainly online games and activities for individual students to practise key vocabulary and links to other useful sites, too.

They range from the basics in Keystage 2 to A level standard at Keystage 5 and are in 4 different languages: French, German, Spanish and Russian.

I was particularly interested in the French A level resources and noticed that they are following the same course as my students. There are some topics they haven't got around to yet but all of the AS level French topics appear to be there.

Although I will not have time to use the site in class, I shall be recommending that my year12 students, in particular, use this site for revision purposes.