Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes

This set of resources re Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes sourced and presented by Simon at Primary Nuggets.

NEN – National Education Network

There are some terrific resources to be found on the NEN ‘Teaching and Learning’ page ….

About the Network ( this is what they say about themselves):

The National Educational Network is a dedicated, educationally focused resource for teaching and learning without constraints of time or location. Harnessing our unique expertise, we enable a safe, secure, collaborative and creative learning experience for pupils, teachers and parents.

The National Education Network is a teaching and learning resource providing schools with a secure network designed and maintained by experts within the educational community. A dedicated education network, it harnesses the power of broadband technology to deliver unique content and services, enabling users to share learning resources at every level, to deliver a personalised learning experience in the classroom. Optimised for data-intensive applications (including video conferencing), the National Education Network offers a number of unique advantages for schools, offering a secure and safe environment where issues such as copyright are managed and where teachers, pupils and parents can work confidently together.

Mathsframes

Mathsframe.co.uk provides software for teaching maths on interactive whiteboards. Lots of free activities …There is a small cost for total access but at £10/year should be well worth the fee.

SGP125 is now ready for collection

We begin this half term with an introduction to a new ictopus project based on the TRE – Teacher Resource  Exchange.

Next, Dee Chamberlain shares a couple of contributions to support your teaching of the ICT
curriculum.

Finally, Ian Addison tells us all about Google Apps.

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

Educational Apps for Halloween

Jo Badge is obviously on a roll this morning … getting herself geared up for  teaching experience no doubt. She has come up with another resource, right on cue for the time of year. This is a Halloween set of apps for ipads, ipods and iphones …  found on Shelly Terrell’s blog .

And what is more Tricia has come up with great books for Halloween reading from the Nosy Crow blog.

Also … 15 Halloween Resource Sites for Teachers from Teaching News.

typeit

Thanks to one of my PGCE students Jo Badge for the information about this site which lets you type foreign characters, accent marks, diacritics and other characters online.

The site is typeit … clever idea and saves time if you are working in another language or have children in your class for whom English is not their first language.

Maths Dictionary for Kids

My Twitter PLN  (Personal Learning Network) has come up trumps again with this great ‘Maths Dictionary for Kids’… (please read the ‘terms of use’ )

Woodland Trust – Spooky activity pack

The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity and has a section on its web site devoted to educational initiatives.

Get in the mood for Halloween with spooky woodland walks, bat masks and twig skeletons :O) … here 

Lots and lots of spooky ideas to try out …

TES – A Hedgehog’s Year

Sign up for a free TES account and get your hands on some lovely resources. This one ‘A Hedgehog’s Year: Cyclical Sequencer ‘ – A TESiboard activity for pupils to sequence the stages of a year in the life of a hedgehog. Click each picture and read or listen to the explanation. Drag the pictures into the cyclical diagram, placing them in the right order. Takes you through a year of hedgehog life … brilliant for life cycles work in science ‘Life processes and living things’.

These updates come to me via a TES tweet to my Twitter account. Twitter is a great place for information and keeping up-to-date.

Teachfind

Teachfind – All your essential teaching resources in one place … a place to find the resources that you have used for a long time that have been blocked or stopped or just simply removed.  Videos from Teacher TV, The National Strategies, QCDA, Teachernet, Ofsted and Becta are all here.