Blogging at Heathfield School

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12448932

BBC Breakfast News. Broadcasted Monday 14th February 2011

This is about boys in year 6 at Bolton Primary School who untill recently, have hated writing. It all happened when the school was closed due to a snow day, and so they children and teachers had to communicate interactively via their website. Blogging has become a huge hit with the children - especially the boys who now think that it has made writing become "cool".

There has been an increase in the results in year 6 SATS which is positive as this could make children start to be more interested in blogging, which later improves their writing. It has also been introduced to different year groups so that younger children have the oppurtunity to join in.

"the number of children achieving level 5 and above in SATS writing tests had increased from 9% to 60%".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12000886

This link shows there is evidence of boys lacking behind in writing. But, in my opinion if more schools do what Bolton did which is to use blogging to incourage writing, then maybe it wouldn't be such a big problem.