Mr Portman Recommends
Merlin: Camelot Defence
Maths Lines
This is an excellent strategy game, built to accompany BBC One’s Merlin series.
There are three levels, the last of which is especially tricky and might take a few turns to complete!
Test your addition of pairs to ten by firing balls from a cannon.
It's good fun and actually quite challenging, even if you do know your pairs to ten.
My Favourite Links
- The Guardian ― the newspaper
- Bamboo Space ― online noticeboard
- NCSL ― school leadership stuff
- Open Office ― free office software
- SitePoint ― loads of techie stuff
- Icon Archive ― free icons
- Becta ― all about ICT in education
- BBC Football ― the best football site
- Nativespace ― reliable web hosting
- Trowse Primary School ― I work here
- The Pink ‘Un ― Norwich City FC news
Sites Found by You
- Kidipede ― History for Kids
MrPInteractive
Most of the games below were built by a guy called Nick Kouvaris, of Lightforce Games, who kindly gave me permission to host the games on my site. Lucky you!
- StateTris ― happy geography!
- Spy ― rubbish, really
- Skid ― skid across it all
- Q Game ― problem solving away
- Poux ― click on similar tiles
- Hanoi Towers ― you know these
- Full Hex ― fill the board... again
- Full Board ― err... fill the board
- Freefall ― sliding plus gravity
- Cubilus ― slide away!
- Chain Reaction ― same shape / colour
- Block Champ ― clear the road
- Blix ― form columns of stars
- Znax ― great game!
- Tree Making ― pretty!
WIRBS are back!
Well, sort of... the black, round thingies on this site are from a set of icons called Friendly Fire.
They were created by someone known as Sniffels, on Deviant Art.
Genius Quotes
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos
Jokes
A man in a hurry taking his eight-year-old son to school made a turn at a red light where it was prohibited.
'Uh-oh, I think I just made an illegal turn!' the man said.
'It's okay, Dad,' the boy said, 'The police car right behind us did the same thing.'
Free Font!!!
You may think this website looks cool, but it looks positively sub-zero when you have a font called Akbar installed on your computer!
I've arranged for permission to host the font on this site, so... download the Akbar font!
The font is based on Matt Groening's handwriting, so it's way cooler than Comic Sans. Full instructions on how to install the font on your computers are available here.
If you have a Mac, then you'll need to visit the creator's website and download the font from there.
About This Site
No pixels were hurt during the making of this site.
Neither were any animals, except for a chicken, served in a delicious Madras sauce with a warm naan bread, but that was probably killed before I started. Mmm...
Accessibility
I've built this site with the target audience in mind, which consists of school children, parents and other teachers. The site was built to be accessible right from the beginning of the design process, but please let me know if you have any problems viewing the site. It validates to XHTML 1.0, by the way.
The site displays correctly in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE7, while I am working on IE6 and IE8. I've also built in a function to identify mobile browsers and direct to a specific stylesheet, but that sheet isn't finished yet for this design.
