Teaching Resources, Writing, Software Engineering

Hey there! We’re a couple of Kiwis on our big OE adventure in London! Since most of the year has been spent in some form of lockdown, we’ve embarked on a few website projects - check them out:

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📚 Last minute teaching resources for those times when you need a resource to grab & go!
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Featured articles

London

The Last 2 Years

The story of my two years of living in London told through musicals! Take your seats ladies and gents, switch off your mobile phones and please keep your face covering on for the duration of the performance.

Travel

Oui to Our OE!

Travelling to France during the pandemic? It can be done! Here's what we got up to on our August trip to Paris and Southern France:

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Tech

Tutorial: Sending a Web Push Notification using Web Push API

How to send a web push notification using the Web Push API with React, FaunaDB and Netlify functions.

Teaching

Secondary School Teachers Should Spend a Day in Primary

We all have our preferences when it comes to teaching different year levels. But what if we stepped outside of our comfort zone bubbles into someone else's world?

London

A Year in Monzo

Money can be a scary topic to talk about normally, let alone during a pandemic which has hit many people hard financially. Here I share the breakdown of my spending across the year in 2020 and my thoughts after going through this process.

London

MY TAKE: Cycling in London

Think going half a year without taking public transport around London is possible? Say hello to my good old friend: The bicycle.

London

The Girl in 14 Waterson

A poem inspired by the song 'The Girl in 14G' about a day that seemed to go from bad to worse...with a twist at the end!

Tech

Unicode vs ASCII

What is the difference between Unicode and ASCII? And how does UTF-8 and character encodings fit in?

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Teaching

What is Your Message?

How a simple question turned into my driving source of motivation for our at the minute teaching website