News

• Free Online Gaelic lessons for all schools from Languagenut- those attending the AHDS  Annual Conference on 3^rdand 4^thNovember can sign up for their access to the free online Gaelic resources from Languagenut. For those of you who are unable to attend the conference, you can sign up here
• 3DMadeEasy.com-CPD from 3DMadeEasyis now mobile and will be delivering training at various locations across Scotland that suit you. Detailed information covering Course Titles, Course Content etc. is available at eddie@3dmadeeasy.com
• You can now check to see how much energy your school can save if you were using the Ben Q Smart Eco Projector.  For each projector in your school you could be saving £472,159kg in CO₂and 13 trees over a three year period. You can alsoincrease your lamp life by 80% without compromising on brightness, Click here to find out more
• New from J2E- J2webby is a web-based creative platform that encourages pupils to be at the heart of the learning experience. It's easy to use with minimal training; any member of staff can add or make changes to the site's content with our one click publishing. Please email james@j2e.com for a free 30 day trial and j2webby activation
• New from Learning Unlimited -Supporting Cooperative Learning in Pre 5, Primary and Secondary Schools.Written by a classroom teacher for classroom teachers, this new publication will support and inspire you to make the most of cooperative learning in your classroom
• Reading Eggs from 3P Learningis an online program where children learn to read.  It supports each child's learning by offering individual, one-to-one lessons that allow children to progress at their own rate. The program teaches pupils the key elements of phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Research-based, instructional activities teach pupils how to use grapho-phonemic knowledge in order to decode words, blend sounds all the way through the word and segment phonemes for spelling. For a free trial contact schoolreadingeggs@3plearning.co.uk 
• FREE Sample Pack of New Phonics Reading Scheme for Older Learners-Rising Stars are offering a FREE sample pack from the brand new reading scheme Dockside, specifically developed to support the teaching of reading to older pupils, to the first 50 schools to email their details to karengriffith@risingstars-uk.com Dockside includes 75 reading books and a range of supporting teaching materials. Offer closes 30^th November 2011.

Curriculum for Excellence

• BrainPOP UK- all BrainPOP UK animated movies and quizzes are mapped to Curriculum for Excellence and using DeepBeep their curriculum matching tool, you can quickly and easily find a movie to meet your needs. This month's spotlight is Managing Your Money and December's Spotlight is Weather or Not. Sign up for a free trial.
• Espresso Primary- alignment to the Curriculum for Excellence is underway! Starting with the Scottish maths curriculum, Espresso Primary is linking the CfE to relevant resources on the service. This is just the beginning of the project. In future months, other subjects will be added and subscribers will see Espresso resources aligned to areas of CfE. Espresso is inviting all Scottish schools to a free trial of Espresso. Contact Gordon Herron on 07917 118642 or gherron@espresso.co.uk

New to SS4E Website

SS4E Showcase- This month's Showcase is from Espresso

Free Resources

• MySMARTSpaces is a new way for UK teachers to share ideas, swap resources and get the most from SMART whether you have a single SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard or a full SMART Classroom Suite. From blogs and tweets, to lesson resources, videos and shared bookmarks, MySMARTSpaces enables you to join the debate and contribute to the future of UK education.
• TRIP resource (Transitions Information and Planning resource) is on online resource which has three main purposes - to help young people with complex needs to make well informed decisions about life after school, to encourage the development of learning opportunities be showcasing good practice and provide information and resources for the transition journey
• You can now download and try out a FREE sample unit of Rising Star's Switched on ICT. Each pack includes a year's worth of ICT content and is made up of a clear and easy-to-follow Teacher's Book containing six units, each with step-by-step teacher support, Pupil Task Cards (six copies for each unit) which brief children on the activity and A fully networkable CD-ROM with interactive PDFs of the Teacher's Book content, a resource bank of sound effects, photos and artwork, Software in 60 Seconds on-screen software demos and lots more.

Forthcoming Events

• 3rd November - Creating Digital Prelim Exams and Resources for Pupils with ASN from CALLScotland
• 3^rd& 4^th November - AHDS Annual Conference
• 11thNovember - Clicker 5 to support Language, Literacy and Communication from CALL Scotland
• 12th November- Curriculum for Excellence Numeracy - talk for primary and secondary teachers, at Strathclyde Hilton Hotel, Bellshill
• 12th November- Technology and ASN:Information  Day for Parents from CALL Scotland
• 17th November- Implementing Digital SQA Exams and ICT for Pupils with ASN from CALL Scotland
• 2nd December- Using ipads, ipods and other mobile devices for AAC/ASD from CALL Scotland
• 5th December - Introduction to Inventor 
• 8th December -  Intermediate Level Inventor
• 12th December - Introduction to Inventor  

Competitions

• Win dance training and resources for your school! imovesdance.com's dance competition for schools is looking for the best dance performance by a school in the UK.  There are two categories: 7 - 11 years and 12 - 16 years.  All you need to do is film your best school performance which should last around 2 - 3 minutes and send in a copy on DVD to imovesdance.  Closing date is 16^th December 2011
• Watch popular children's authors and win with Read to a Million Kids! - over 50,000 children across the UK already enjoying specially recorded videos of popular children's authors reading from their best-selling books. Visitors to the site can already watch videos of Tommy Donbavand, Lou Kuenzler and Dan Freedman and many more authors, such as The Etherington Brothers and Sophie McKenzie, are still to come!