The Art of Monachy

The Art of Monarchy is an absolutely wonderful set of resources for anyone interested in the monarchy during this jubilee year. Lessons, resources and images are all there just waiting to be used.

Assemblies

The BBC has come up with a super range of assemblies on its World Class site … more than worth a look.

New Resources on BBC Schools

The BBC have just released information about a new set of resources:

Indus Valley
Go back 5,000 years to the East and meet the Indus Civilisation! Become a trader and explore the ancient cities in the Indus Trader game.

Domesday Reloaded Teaching Resources
Explore daily routines in 1986 including school days, hobbies, entertainment and technology using the new Domesday Reloaded Lesson Plans.

KS 2 Bitesize

Hanes Prydain
Adnoddau athrawon newydd wedi’u selio ar bump gwrthrych gwahanol o Gymru ar gyfer gwersi Cyfnod Allweddol 2.

 

BBC Doomsday

Back in 1986 the BBC published the Domesday Project.

The project was probably the most ambitious attempt ever to capture the essence of life in the United Kingdom. Over a million people contributed to this digital snapshot of the country. People were asked to record what they thought would be of interest in another 1000 years.
The whole of the UK – including the Channel Islands and Isle of Man – was divided into 23,000 4x3km areas called Domesday Squares or “D-Blocks”. Schools and community groups surveyed over 108,000 square km of the UK and submitted more than 147,819 pages of text articles and 23,225 amateur photos, cataloguing what it was like to live, work and play in their community. This was about documenting everyday life – the ordinary rather than the extraordinary.The project used the cutting edge technology of the day, and the data was eventually presented on a special type of Laser-Disc, read by a BBC master computer and navigated using an innovative tracker-ball pointing system.

And now its back … here … use it and enjoy !!

History on the BBC

The BBC is going to town, quite literally, at the moment bringing a whole range of history focused programmes and related resources and information.

There is the new series ‘Turn Back Time’ which started on BBC 1 on 2nd November. This programme is well supported by the web site ‘Hands on History’ which, in turn, is further enhanced by the ‘Victorian Britain‘ web site which has resources and teacher’s notes to support the programme.

Wallace and Gromit Avatar Builder

This from Mark Warner via Twitter , you might find this brand new avatar builder amusing and/or useful …

https://www.wallaceandgromitstamps.com/

The Wallace and Gromit World of Invention programme is on BBC One on 3rd November at 19.30  … Or visit the site to see the other great ideas … http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/wallaceandgromit/

Enjoy

Olympic Dreams School Search

Check out the web site for more details about this 2012 Olympics project

BBC World Class and the British Council are looking for dozens of primary and secondary schools across the UK to twin with schools all over the world and to take part in a special project in the run-up to the London Olympics in 2012. We are looking for schools that want to link with others around the world or in the UK, and who are excited about 2012. We want to find inspiring teachers who can share creative work from their pupils with us via the web. Winning schools will be partnered with the schools attended by athletes who are part of the BBC’s World Olympic Dreams Project.

BBC Parents – support your child’s education

Noticed today on the BBC Parents site a search engine for educational games and resources. Could be useful to build home/school bridges.

BBC Schools Newsletter – update

The BBC Schools emailed newsletter is in need of an upgrade and teachers etc are asked for ideas as to what improvements should/could be made. Time to have your say … sign up here

The Solar System – BBC

Mandy Barrow has just ‘Tweeted’ this site from the BBC – The Solar System – looks great for research and has some excellent videos. Now wouldn’t it be really good if they released them under a ‘creative commons’ license so that we could all reuse them. (Remember that BBC2 did it with the ‘Virtual Revolution’)