New lesson2go

New lesson2go from ictopus: English Ages 10-11: Meanings and origins of proverbs

In this lesson, children use the internet and paper-based sources to explore the meanings of some well-
known (and less well-known) proverbs.

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Education Bill

The Education Bill, published today, will help teachers raise standards in schools. It includes measures to root out bad behaviour, tackle underperformance and improve the way in which schools are held to account.

Exciting Reading

From the BBC this morning :

Celebrities Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are launching a book club aimed specifically at children. The club is made up of three categories – Reading together, Reading by yourself and Fluent reader – with six book titles in each.

Read more here.

And … Oxford Owl is also well worth a look … You can now enjoy over 100 free eBooks and activities with your child’s favourite characters like Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy, the Project X team and Winnie the Witch.

SGP109 is now ready for collection

We have another superb historical resource for you this term: a collection of primary source documents relating to the Glenlee, a tall ship built at the end of the nineteenth century. This issue of SGP introduces the resources that are available in a special area of the ictopus website marked by a tab at the top of the home page. There are also lots of pictures of the ship and of the original documents in the Pictopus gallery.

The magazine can be downloaded from here … Log-in first then go to the SGP tab.

Copyright-free image bank launched for teachers

Copyright-free image bank launched for teachers … News just in today: An online library of over a million rights-cleared images for teachers and students to use in education has been released by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Reference to this can be found here

Primary School TV

This is what the email told me ….

Do you want a free & easy to use website to easily find and access TV/video
footage in your classroom? Primary School TV does exactly that and
couldn’t be easier and more useful!

This freebie is an exclusive, Primary School TV only launched yesterday and
we have exclusivity on letting you know about it! Expect to hear a lot
about it in the coming weeks!

lesson2go: Puzzles: Ages 5-7: Nim

New lesson2go from ictopus: Puzzles: Ages 5-7: Nim

Nim is a mathematical game of strategy. There are many variants of the game but this simple version is
played with ten counters in a single line. Players take turns to remove either one or two counters. The
winner is the player who takes the last counter.

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SGP108 is now ready for collection

This special 4-page edition of SGP, developed in collaboration with TTS, announces an exciting competition
and some new products with discounts for SGP readers. Printed copies will be available at BETT on the TTS
stand (P22).

The magazine can be downloaded from http://www.ictopus.org.uk/ . Log-in first then go to the SGP tab.

Learn Your Tables

Learn Your Tables multi-language version.

Tables learning in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese

This is what the site says: Learn Your Tables is now available here in more than 10 language versions for use worldwide, and by overseas students. Many more language versions will be available soon. This web version requires Adobe Flash.

Keep up to date …

Larry Ferlazzo has a web site on which he publishes a ‘web site of the day’ … at this time of the year he complies a compendium of the last year’s lists.

Not to be missed … here