I work in the computer suite, where all the classes come for their ICT lessons. So all the children in the school recognise me – they call me ‘the Computer Man’ or ICT teacher.

With my past experience working with computers, I’m in a position to be able to help the class teachers to interpret the National Curriculum for ICT and make lesson plans that work with the increasingly sophisticated computer equipment which we all have to learn to get the most advantage out of. So I demonstrate appropriate computer skills to the children as a class, and then help them individually as they learn by themselves, and I go round during the activities and get them out of the unusual sticky situations they manage to find themselves in sometimes on the computers. One or two of the children also come along to the “Evening Sessions” ICT courses which I run at the neighbouring Winslade Estate Cyber Centre.

The school website is starting to look a bit dated, so I’m going to be looking at ways to bring it bang up to date with new simple publishing technologies, so it becomes a communication centre for the community and a place to celebrate some of the work that goes on inside the school.

Oh yes, and I play the guitar for the infants singing assemblies as well.

Andrew Roberts latest book is out now:

Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble

Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most significant 48 hour periods of all time, but also a startling revaluation on the methodology of history — is it possible to create an accurate picture from a single standpoint? What we can say for certain about the battle is that it ended forever the one of the great personal world-historical epics. The career of Napoleon was brought to a shuddering halt on the evening of 18th June 1815.

Roberts sets the political, strategic and historical scene, and finally shows why Waterloo was such an important historical punctuation mark. The generation after Waterloo saw the birth of the modern era: ghastly as the carnage here was, henceforth the wars of the future were fought with infinitely more ghastly methods of trenches, machine-guns, directed starvation, concentration camps, and aerial bombardment. By the time of the Great War, chivalry was utterly dead. The honour of bright uniform and tangible spirit of elan, espirit, eclat met their final dance at Waterloo.

‘It is one of Andrew Roberts’s merits that, as well as being intelligent, hard-working and opinionated, he gets great fun out of his writing. His books are consequently not only genuinely important but also a pleasure to read.’ Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph

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