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I've just heard that Sebastian has been receiving quite a few emails recently. Lots of people writing about the changing seasons. Why not try Sebastian's Waddle , it's a good introduction for talking about changes in the Spring and also encouraging...
Students equipped with their own laptop demonstrate higher achievement and increased engagement, according to the findings of studies published in the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. All of the studies found that students in the 1:1 settings...
The Editable IWB Dictionary (ictgames.com) lets you store useful words and view them in a 3D scrolling dictionary. This can be really useful when working with Guided Groups in Literacy, making the IWB a powerful spelling resource during the main activity...
Why not try the Kent ICT Virtual Fireworks page, [ www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/festivals/fireworks/ ]. These resources include word banks to support creative writing. Plus links to further information about The Gun Powder Plot.
Celebrate Roald Dahl's Birthday www.roalddahl.com Roald Dahl Day, 13th September, is the annual celebration of the genius and legacy of Roald Dahl. The following website has teaching resources www.randomhouse.co.uk
The charity Booktrust will be delivering more than 2 million free books to every pupil in reception and Year 7 by Christmas, through their Booktime and Booked Up programmes. The Booktime programme for reception-aged pupils (4- to 5-years-oldand Booked...
The Word Tree is one of my favourite Kent ICT games for FS/KS1 use on the IWB. We wanted to make a version more suitable for KS2. So there's a new game called Premiership Words . It allows to enter and store jazzy words for display on your IWB. The...
Teachers looking at persuasive writing within a Literacy lesson might want to use an advert from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/series/advertisingvideos Some are unsuitable for classroom use so please do check them in advance. My personal favourite is...
We thought we would kick off Term 6 highlighting again the amazing online Literacy tools published by ReadWriteThink.org. The site offers a collection of tools under the Student Materials Index that support literacy learning. They have even included lesson...
Exploring New Literacies is a brand new website for teachers who would like to link with teachers around the world. It provides an easily accessible interactive space to share, discuss and evaluate changes to the multitude of literacies that teachers...
BBC's new revision game Questionaut , by Amanita Design , attempts to combine video games with sats questions. The goal of Questionaut is to track down your friend's hat, but your balloon can't reach that high until you answer enough questions...
Several schools have already tried out an early version of Picture the Music software to rapidly and easily create audio/visual resources for generating thinking and creative writing. The new Create version now allows importation of your own pictures...
Pupils from 6 Dover primary schools attended the Dover Castle Writing project Celebration at Lydden primary school To remember the famous siege of Dover Castle in 1216 the pupils created with Michele Gregson (ASK Art and Design Advisory Teacher) a tapestry...
I was contacted by a colleague who enquired if anyone was interested in the collaborative writing competition being run by Think Quest Details can be found here: http://thinkquest.org/competition/narrative/index.html but the ideas are noted below Create...
Teachers TV is a great resource for finding videos to support teachers CPD and also to find video clips to use in the classroom with the pupils. If you register on the site (its free), you will be able to download the videos and then embedd them in IWB...
More than 2,000 clips from BBC programmes on Learning Zone Broadband ready to play in your classroom. BBC Class Clips www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/ See also: Britain From Above See your world from the air. Great resources for geography, history and...
Collaborative writing with other people can be a very productive and fun way to produce/edit all forms or writing. Online document collaboration has changed the way how teachers and their students share and edit documents with more than one person being...
Super Action Comic Maker www.artisancam.org.uk Super Action Comic Maker is part of the Artisan Cam website. Using a range of backgrounds and characters, each with a different pose, pupils can create an A4 action hero comic book page. On the same theme...
With thanks to Mark Warner for suggesting the following website: The Hero Factory Pupils will have fun creating their own Superhero. Their creations can be downloaded as a jpeg (image file) or printed. http://www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/ Mandy
Stretton Handley Primary School, inspired by photographs they saw of winter scenes , used PhotoStory to create winter poems. Click here to read their poems (Windows Media Player 10 or above needed) Microsoft's free PhotoStory has been around for sometime...
Tim Rylands starts his two week visit to Kent next week 19th January. Two hundred teachers will be attending the workshop launch on Monday. Many more teachers will be attending the demo lessons and twilights being held in West Kent. Here are some of the...
Karl Newman from Sevenoaks Primary sent me a link that I just had to share! Three children from Karl's Year One class had been using 2Create A Story to write about 'Sam The Spaceman'. They used a USB microphone to record their voices. Once...
Spelltube www.spelltube.co.uk " Spelltube brings the weekly spelling list into the technological age. " Spelltube is a fun spelling website that allows teachers to assign video-based spelling lists to their pupils. At present it is aimed at...
There's a new metal detectors page on Kent NGfL. It includes instructions for how to use the metal detector and downloadable .pdf files for printing. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/metalDetector Ideas include shape bingo, bear bingo, phonemes...
Hopping down in Kent www.hoppingdowninkent.org.uk We have chosen Hopping Down in Kent because hopping is mentioned in Nigel Hinton's story " Beavers Towers: Mission to Kent " which he wrote especially for Kent schools. On Thursday 23 October...
Elastoplast Stories www.elastoplaststories.co.uk Elastoplast, the sticking-plaster manufacturer, has designed a fun website for kids. The idea behind the interactive micro-site is that every injury tells a story. Pupils can let their imaginations run...
" Using ICT to inspire a creative approach to writing - Emerging from the Myst. " For Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 This new and exciting Kent writing project has been inspired by the work of Tim Rylands, who has gained notable recognition for using...
Spelling City www.spellingcity.com Spellingcity.com is a free spelling tool that can help make the teaching of spelling more exciting. With online spelling games, spelling reviews, and spelling quizzes, pupils can memorise their weekly spelling words...
Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies reading.ecb.org Into the Book is designed to enhance the teaching and learning of reading comprehension strategies for primary students. The website focuses on eight strategies that proficient readers...
19 January - a whole day workshop for 200 Kent teachers. This new and exciting Kent project has been inspired by the work of Tim Rylands, who has been described as “an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of...
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