BETT Thursday

Day over - nowhere near as busy with visitor numbers than previous years in my view. Lots of International visitors first thing (they will have stayed over from Wednesday).

Peak times it was busy - we have 5 pods on the guroo stand and all were fully utilised with queues waiting but in a similar way to Wednesday, it sort of died at about 3pm.

I did get a chance to walk the show and look for other Functional Skills resources. BKSB are here of course and after the show finished yesterday, we did get a chat and a drink with them which was nice. Vision2learn have one level 2 English resource, Promethean Planet has some functional skills resources that are free to download abd indeed, TES has lots as well.

Boardworks have lots of Diploma resources and I personally like them, although they don't have anything for Functional Skills yet - I do hope we can help them out with this!

What was surprising for me was that i haven't yet spotted any tiny companies (like we were three years ago) popping up and doing things in the Functional Skills resource areas.

On our side, Guroo 2.0 is going really well. New customers like it, becuase it's a complete product with no gaps in the essential areas. Existing custoemrs like it becuase it now does what they asked for - so telling your suppliers what you want really does work.

I do feel that friday will be good - more tomrrow!