Mission Impossiball – free event final places

The Mission Impossiball event will be repeated again early in September. This is a free event for Staffordshire schools – just send along a Teaching Assistant and 2 children to create your own part of Bob’s 2D animated mission.

The schools applying must not have previously attended this event. You will be provided with all materials to successfully repeat the event back in school, including a resources pack, webcamera  and Frames software.

If you need to know more about Mission Impossiball please visit the website – www.missionimpossiball.webnode.com

Please book this event through your school CPDC or ring 01785 277932 quoting code ICN40501/2/3/4 – these events run on September 16th/17th/18th and 21st

Making Digital Video – tips from Espresso

In preparation for SAFTAS 2009, we are pleased to inform you that we have arranged some free training on the use of Digital Video which will be led by Espresso Education personnel:

ICT Scheme of Work

Need to give a little more ‘meat’ to the ICT Scheme of Work? We have updated the QCA scheme to include more multimedia aspects. This updated scheme is now available to all schools.

COMIC LIFE DELUXE

FREE for all Staffordshire Primary Schools

We are pleased to inform you that Staffordshire Primary Strategy has purchased a number of licences for Comic Life software for all schools in Staffordshire with primary aged children.

30 free IWB activities for FS and KS1

i-board are currently offering 30 free activities of your choice from their library of activities which they describe as “funky ITPs”. You need to register first in order to access the resources.

Go to www.iboard.co.uk/free

Getting more from your Interactive Whiteboard

Tips and tricks for using the IWB from Promethean on their Promethean World Web site.

Crime Scene Investigation – Science

I love murder mystery stories and so the idea of involving children in investigating a crime was very intriguing. Your Y6 pupils could soon be acting as forensic scientists!

Lots of great resources on Educated Fish

This is a site which is still under construction but there’s so much to work with to support Key Stages 1, 2 & 3.  Nine curricular subjects are covered from Numeracy, Literacy, Science and ICT to Music, Art and Languages.

 

The V & A National Archives – The Tudors

Find out about the Tudors. See real documents and objects from Tudor times.

Test your skills with online games.

for more information click on the link below

http://www.tudorbritain.org/

 

Exploratree

We have mentioned this before on the blog, but just to let you know that Futurelab have launched the final version of  Exploratree.  This is a free cross curricular web resource for Key Stages 2-4.  Pupils and teachers can create and share interactive thinking guides to support projects and research.  These can help pupils to work through a topic or question, or prompt them to shape and focus their ideas and identify the planning required for further investigation.  Well work the time to look!