I always find it a great pleasure to be in a foreign country and run into friends from home. This applies to the situation at BETT where I was really keen to run into Paul White of the ESF, who I knew to be attending BETT prior to my leaving. I saw Paul most days I was there. Unfortunately, I was not so lucky in the case of Lee-Anne Patterson who I exchanged emails with the whole time but could not seem to link up with.
A big bonus of running into Paul was that he told me that he had been uploading some thoughts on the relevance of what he had seen on the ESF 1:1 ning he has set up. I found this to be a great resource personally as BETT is just too big and too extensive to try to conquer alone. It was also good to get Paul’s slant on offerings as he was interested in offerings from the point of schools going to the IBO programme and 1:1 learning. This is common to quite a lot of the schools I work with but not as common amongst the UK schools present. Paul created a posting here reviewing a lot of what he had seen up to the end of Day 2. Lee-Anne on the other hand posted about Special Educational Needs offerings here.
What a great saving for me!