EDDIE’s LAUNCHPADS

The final Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast of the 2023-24 academic year. Our headteacher, Mrs. Waters reflects on the past year. Eddie Edster helps her along the way. As always, Cap'n Dave sees them both safely landing back on Eddie's 'LaunchPads'. Dogsthorpe Infant School is a part of Hampton Academies Trust. https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk

On this edition of Eddie's LaunchPads we catch up with our friend, Amanda Peddle who is the creative director of Inside Out, a new and innovative way of sharing the message to children that all feelings are an everyday part of their life. We also talk to Amanda about her series of books called 'Tam's Journey'. Cap'n Dave also talks about a very special clock that is as old as Dogsthorpe Infant School. In fact, it was built around the same time our school was built. Find Amanda Peddle at the following links. https://insideoutosyp.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-peddle-tams-journey https://twitter.com/amandapeddle69 https://www.facebook.com/TAMS-Journey-140587033253460 https://www.instagram.com/amanda.peddle2/ https://tams-journey.myshopify.com/ Captain Dave's Clock can be seen using the link below. It toured the UK over 60 years ago. https://youtu.be/hbNV5DibpOk?si=pmwYagp2wW8ipcUv

The second part of a two-part adventure on Eddie's LaunchPads. Cap'n Dave and his co-pilot Eddie meet the children's author, Ian Brown. Ian is the creator of Albert The Tortoise and 'Hugg n Bugg'. Last week Ian told us about his career in films and television. He has worked with many TV and movie stars. This week we will hear all about his wonderful children's books And here are all his links to those books and resources.. www.AlbertTortoise.com https://www.facebook.com/AlbertTheTortoise/ https://twitter.com/AlbertTortoise tiktok - @alberttortoise Our general Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thebruvstv/ Ian Brown on twitter / X https://twitter.com/IanBrownTV Hugg 'n' Bugg on facebook https://www.facebook.com/HUGGnBUGG To buy Ian's books: Shop pages at www.AlbertTortoise.com Or via the publishers Graffeg : https://graffeg.com/collections/albert-the-tortoise Amazon in the UK for Albert the tortoise books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y669TNG?binding=board_book&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_thcv Amazon in the UK for Hugg 'n' Bugg books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7K2GFNZ?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk Or via publishers Graffeg : https://graffeg.com/collections/hugg-n-bugg For worldwide, Ian's books are on Amazon in most territories or on www.Wordery.com

The first of a two-part adventure on Eddie's LaunchPads. Cap'n Dave and his co-pilot Eddie meet the children's author Ian Brown. This week Ian tells us about his career in films and television. Next week we will hear all about his children's books but in the meantime here are all his links. On Social media... www.AlbertTortoise.com https://www.facebook.com/AlbertTheTortoise/ https://twitter.com/AlbertTortoise tiktok - @alberttortoise Our general Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thebruvstv/ Ian Brown on twitter / X https://twitter.com/IanBrownTV Hugg 'n' Bugg on facebook https://www.facebook.com/HUGGnBUGG To buy Ian's books: Shop pages at www.AlbertTortoise.com Or via the publishers Graffeg : https://graffeg.com/collections/albert-the-tortoise Amazon in the UK for Albert the tortoise books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y669TNG?binding=board_book&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_thcv Amazon in the UK for Hugg 'n' Bugg books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7K2GFNZ?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk Or via publishers Graffeg : https://graffeg.com/collections/hugg-n-bugg For worldwide, Ian's books are on Amazon in most territories or on Wordery.com

It's Eddie's Launchpads! The Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast fpr parents, teachers and schools. Captain Dave and Eddie Edster, the Dogsthorpe Infant School well-being dog meet once again with Leonie from the fantastic 'AmazeLab'. Amazelab put a fun and creative take on all things STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) with the aim of providing engaging opportunities to people via workshops, video link, activity packs, follow along factsheets, and guidance open to all from educational settings to non -school groups and everyone in between. Amazelab aims to deliver an inspiring, creative take on STEAM subjects, and their relevance to everyday life and deliver this in a fun but thought-provoking manner. Nominated at The STEM Inspirational awards, The Global Teacher Prize, National Teaching Awards and most loved activity provider/business manager at the National Children's Activity Awards. Winners of Small Business Awards Leading innovators in STEAM Education - UK 2021, Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday winners plus Start up Business of the Year award winners in 2022 and Outstanding new STEM Ambassador 2022 at The STEM Inspiration Awards plus Excellence Award for STEAM Education Workshops 2023 in the UK Enterprise Awards and winners of best STEAM education company 2023 at the Northern Enterprise Awards. Amazelab are Arts Award partners, Create Sheffield Partners and Barnsley Fusion Partners plus a Children's University Learning Destination. Amazelab is owned and ran by a qualified teacher and graphic designer team. All Amazelab staff writing and delivering the workshops are qualified teachers with enhanced DBS checks, first aid trained and safeguarding trained. Their passion and motivation to inspire a new generation is clear for all to see. They take a fun and creative approach to all things STEAM in a mission to make it accessible to all. https://www.youtube.com/@amazelab1431 https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazelab

IN this week's Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast, Cap'n Dave and Eddie meet Cristina and Julia from Peterborough City Council. They work with families and schools across the city to encourage everyone in the city to recycle or upcycle their waste and household items they no longer use. We all know that we should do more but it's so easy to just throw thing in the waste bin instead of the recycle bin. But do you know which item goes into which bin? What items cannot go into our green bins? What should we do with batteries that have run out of power and cannot be recharged? In this podcast Cristina and Julia take us through the details of how we can do more and offer us resorces and advice. And for Dogsthorpe Infant School children? Well, there's some new friends coming to school to teach them about recycling this week in 'Shine Time'. Contact them at: recycling@peterborough.gov.uk There are initiatives that the council is involved that we have not covered but may be useful for parents. One of them is offering discount to residents for reusable nappy and wipes and period products. I will attach the Microsoft Form that can be completed to access these discounts. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ZLMn4x4EUUyC8skGp4-cyYU5XWHpJNJNi3C-Vk84wCBUM0Y3UkxSOTNTVzFVOEpXWEtURUE1WkFPVC4u For all information related to recycling and waste visit Rubbish and recycling | Peterborough City Council. Details about a recent fire caused by a discarded battery thrown into a waste bin. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/BQcsu3vpCqepajC4/

Part Two of a two-part 'Eddie's LaunchPads' adventure. Captain Dave and Eddie, the Dogsthorpe Infant School well-being dog meet Mark Anderson. For all of his own resources Mark mentions in this podcast, please visit. https://ictevangelist.com/ For The EdTech Playbook Please visit https://edtechplaybook.co.uk For Merlyn resources please visit. https://merlyn.org @MerlynforEDU For 'Now Press Play' https://nowpressplay.co.uk See YouTube 'Breaking Up With Alexa' - Mhairi Aitkin Mark Andersons says.... I am a former school leader with more than twenty years of experience in the classroom, leading successful faculty departments, being a local authority lead teacher for my subject and I am responsible for some of the world’s most innovative 1:1 programmes. For example, my work in 2010 – 2013 where I led on the teaching and learning and delivery on one of the world’s earliest and biggest 1:1 rollouts at Clevedon School. My mission has always been to impact positively on the futures of children which has led to me leaving the classroom to pursue that aim on a larger scale. My ICT Evangelist blog won the Education Blog of the Year award in 2015 and I have picked up numerous other accolades over the years. Many know me from my blog and Twitter handle as @ICTEvangelist. In addition to my highly successful ‘Perfect ICT Every Lesson‘ book which has topped the Amazon education charts on numerous occasions, I have contributed to many more books, such as the recent ‘There Is Another Way: The Second Big Book of Independent Thinking‘. I am now one of the UK’s most in-demand keynote speakers, independent strategic consultants and trainers. I am a passionate advocate for the purposeful use of technology linked to pedagogy. There are few others that have such experience of classroom practice, teaching and learning, management and technical knowledge. My experience has led to me working with schools and keynoting at conferences all over the world. My pedigree is further reinforced by my associate status with Independent Thinking Ltd; an organisation with such high regard attached to it with some of the most talented and in-demand speakers and authors from around the world. It is a privilege to be a member of this group of forward thinking individuals in education. With more than two decades of classroom experience, I know the power and importance of student voice in developing sound practice having co-founded the Digital Leader Network in the UK. I am also an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Innovator, Microsoft Certified Educator and expert in mobile learning and associated pedagogies.' Eddie's Launchpads is an EDU podcast produced by Dogsthorpe Infant School. https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk

The first of a two-part 'Eddie's LaunchPads' this week. Captain Dave and Eddie, the well-being dog meet Mark Anderson. https://ictevangelist.com/ Mark says.... I am a former school leader with more than twenty years of experience in the classroom, leading successful faculty departments, being a local authority lead teacher for my subject and I am responsible for some of the world’s most innovative 1:1 programmes. For example, my work in 2010 – 2013 where I led on the teaching and learning and delivery on one of the world’s earliest and biggest 1:1 rollouts at Clevedon School. My mission has always been to impact positively on the futures of children which has led to me leaving the classroom to pursue that aim on a larger scale. My ICT Evangelist blog won the Education Blog of the Year award in 2015 and I have picked up numerous other accolades over the years. Many know me from my blog and Twitter handle as @ICTEvangelist. In addition to my highly successful ‘Perfect ICT Every Lesson‘ book which has topped the Amazon education charts on numerous occasions, I have contributed to many more books, such as the recent ‘There Is Another Way: The Second Big Book of Independent Thinking‘. I am now one of the UK’s most in-demand keynote speakers, independent strategic consultants and trainers. I am a passionate advocate for the purposeful use of technology linked to pedagogy. There are few others that have such experience of classroom practice, teaching and learning, management and technical knowledge. My experience has led to me working with schools and keynoting at conferences all over the world. My pedigree is further reinforced by my associate status with Independent Thinking Ltd; an organisation with such high regard attached to it with some of the most talented and in-demand speakers and authors from around the world. It is a privilege to be a member of this group of forward thinking individuals in education. With more than two decades of classroom experience, I know the power and importance of student voice in developing sound practice having co-founded the Digital Leader Network in the UK. I am also an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Innovator, Microsoft Certified Educator and expert in mobile learning and associated pedagogies.'

In this week's edition of the Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast, Captain Dave and Eddie continue their interview with the author, dramatherapist, Creative Arts Supervisor & Systemic Practitioner, Talya Bruck. Talya is the founder of Savanna Therapeutic Stories Website – https://www.savanna-therapeutic.org.uk/ Instagram - @savannatstories Twitter - @savannatstories Author Page Amazon https://amzn.to/3qd5mKS They then revisit a lovely author called Brian who has written a series of children's books called 'Grandad Wheels'. https://www.grandadwheels.com/

In this week's edition of the Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast, Captain Dave and Eddie meet the author, dramatherapist, Creative Arts Supervisor & Systemic Practitioner, Talya Bruck. Talya is the founder of Savanna Therapeutic Stories Website – https://www.savanna-therapeutic.org.uk/ Instagram - @savannatstories Twitter - @savannatstories Author Page Amazon https://amzn.to/3qd5mKS

It's Mental Health Awareness Week 13th - 17th May and our first guest is Dogsthorpe Infant School's Deputy Headteacher, Miss Gattuso. Miss Gattuso tells Captain Dave and Eddie all about a new section of the Dogsthorpe Infant School website which launches on Monday 13th May. Packed with lots of resources to ensure good mental health and support for those suffering from mental ill-health, this new website area joins many more sections of https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk to help even more Cambridgeshire families to #DreamBelieveShine Our second guest is our resident families adviser, Sue Atkins. Sue is often seen on ITV and BBC TV programmes and on national radio answering questions set by families across the UK. Today Captain Dave and Sue talk about young children who invent an 'imaginary friend'. If they do, is this something parents should be concerned about? What causes a child to invent an imaginary friend? What should we do if we know a child who has an imaginary friend in our family or in our class at school?

On 'Eddie's Launchpads' the Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast this week, Cap'n Dave and Eddie travel to Chorley to revisit the author and illustrator, Nicola Worswick. We hear all about her books, including an old pirate called Captain Cuthbert and a cheeky cat called, 'Scat'. https://linktr.ee/scatthecat

Imagine your Primary or Secondary school having its very own radio station with your students having their own radio show. Imagine your pupils reporting live from school sports events. Imagine teaching your children broadcasting and timing skills by working on a radio show. Imagine the parents, carers and families at home tuning into your school radio station to hear what's going on in school and hearing their own child's voice over the airwaves. You may think is beyond the budget of most, is not all schools. But it's really not. This edition of Eddie's Launchpads will show you how YOU can get this amazing resource for your school. And ways to raise funds to buy and maintain it. In this second episode of Season 5 of the Dogsthorpe Infant School Podcast, Captain Dave and Eddie the well-being dog continue their interview with the well-known broadcaster Russell Prue. Russell builds and sets up radio stations in schools across the U.K. If you are a school looking for ways to encourage young people with their media studies or improve your connection between school and family homes, then listen as we continue our discussion from last week. And then give Russell a call! https://andertontiger.com https://andertontiger.com/russell/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/russellprue

In the first episode of Season 5 of the Dogsthorpe Infant School Podcast, Captain Dave and Eddie, the well-being dog meets well-known broadcaster Russell Prue who builds and sets up radio stations in schools across the U.K. If you are a school looking for ways to encourage young people with their media studies or improve your connection between school and family homes, give Russell a call! https://andertontiger.com https://andertontiger.com/russell/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/russellprue https://www.instagram.com/russell.prue/ https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk

Dave and Eddie use their LaunchPads to meet Becky Marrs and Emma Morton from the National Literacy Trust and discover what the Trust offers parents, carers, teachers and children in Peterborough. Find out more here. https://literacytrust.org.uk/communities/peterborough/ https://www.facebook.com/PboroLiteracyTrust/ Dogsthorpe Infant School is a primary school and forms part of Hampton Academies Trust network of schools. . https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk

Its the Dogthorpe Infant School podcast for parents teachers and schools. https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week Dave and Eddie launch the Dogsthorpe Infant School 'Learning Journey' spaceship to meet the author, playwright and children's storyteller Julian Armitstead. They discuss two of his children's books, 'Follow That Scent' and 'The Runaway Clothes'. Discover more about Julian and his work here. https://www.julianarmitstead.com

The 130th episode of 'Eddie's LaunchPads' - the Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast for parents teachers and schools. https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk This week: Captain Dave and a very sleepy Eddie the well-being dog meet again with Annabel Jeffcoate of 'Balance For Teachers'. Great resources for teachers and parents struggling with their work/life balance. Annabel reminds our listeners of what Balance For Teachers is all about and shares with us some of her latest resources and avenues of support to help you with your well-being at work and in the home. Get in touch with Annabel via the link below. https://www.worklifebalanceforteachers.com

Eddie's LaunchPads - The Dogsthorpe Infant School Podcast for parents, teachers and schools. https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk This week: Part 2 of a 2 part adventure as Cap'n Dave and Eddie fly to a farm on the Fens to meet Farmer Luke to talk about food production and farming in Britain. https://linktr.ee/downondaintreefarm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5n3r1zWmUiUDxB7keBSdQ https://www.facebook.com/downondaintreefarm https://twitter.com/Ondaintreefarm

Eddie's LaunchPads - The Dogsthorpe Infant School Podcast for parents, teachers and schools. https://www.dogsthorpeinfants.co.uk This week: Part 1 of a 2 part adventure as Cap'n Dave and Eddie fly to a farm on the Fens to meet Farmer Luke to talk about food production and farming in Britain. https://linktr.ee/downondaintreefarm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5n3r1zWmUiUDxB7keBSdQ https://www.facebook.com/downondaintreefarm https://twitter.com/Ondaintreefarm

Cap'n Dave and Eddie use the Launchpad to meet the writer, dramatherapist, supervisor and trainer, Ann Dix on this week's edition of the Dogsthorpe Infant School podcast. Ann works with work with children and families, as well as offering training on mental health and emotional wellbeing. She has also written a children's story called, 'Little-Mouse' Finds a Safe Place'. littlemousetraining.wordpress.com