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October 2011

 

Welcome to the October 2011 e-news bulletin from SS4E. Please feel free to forward this e-news bulletin to colleagues that you think would be interested in any of the items below. If you have any comments or suggestions on this bulletin or indeed any special requests for special software offers, please email them to kim.conway3@btinternet.com

News

  • Free Online Gaelic lessons for all schools from Languagenut- Languagenut has announced that it will make its online Gaelic lessons available to every primary school in Scotland, free of charge. This initiative will provide every child in Scottish education with the provision to learn their native Celtic language free of charge for the next three years.
  • Making the Curriculum for Excellence REAL - Hosted by RM Educationalists in the RM REAL Centre, Edinburgh, these sessions are designed to promote discussion about what engaging, motivating and inspiring learning means within a context of Curriculum for Excellence. Sessions run each day from 9 am - 11am, 11.30am - 1.30pm or  2pm - 4pm. The REAL Centre is open from 7th November until 22nd November only. The sessions will be of interest to Senior Leaders and to any schools that are planning rebuild or refurbishment projects. To book your place, click here
  • allLearnallows your school to offer parents and carers an affordable way to buy a mobile learning device for use in school and at home. The program includes Access to Affordable Mobile Technology, Consultancy and Strategy, Professional Development for Staff, Launch Event for Parents and Carers, Device Warranty and Insurance, Ongoing Support and Finance and Payment Collection. For more details download the allLearn brochure
  • Creative thinking and flexible resources - Every child's different and every one can succeed, with the right resources and support. Providing a learning environment that's right for every individual is a constant challenge for schools. With the clever integration of technology and the re-purposing of spaces, you can break away from the traditional four walls of the classroom and transform any area into an inclusive, collaborative, inspiring teaching and learning space where teachers want to teach in and pupils want to learn in. Is it a cloakroom or a reading room? See how one school in Manchester turned a former cloakroom into three open library zones, to support their pupils' research and reading.
  • Learning Unlimited- have just published their new catalogue and copies are being sent out to schools. Alternatively you can look at it online here

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 suit your needs. October's Spotlight is Reboot, Recycle, Reuse and November's Spotlight is Managing Your Money. Sign up for a free trial.

New to SS4E Website

SS4E Showcase - This month's Showcase is Lanuguagenut

Forthcoming Events

Competitions

  • The inauguralFour Nations Maths Challengeis a FREE competition that will see students involved in a huge online UK maths spectacular and is the official lead up event to the World Education Games 2012.Every single school in the UK is invited to take part and join in a celebration of numbers as children from the four nations unite in their quest to reach the top of the leader board by answering thousands of maths questions. Schools and students can register here
  • Great Bug Hunt - School children can get close up with the world of creepy crawlies by entering next year's Great Bug Hunt competition. The Association for Science Education's learning resource site schoolscience.co.uk has teamed up with Martin Rapley to take science learning out of the classroom and bring it alive in the outdoors. The competition is now returning by popular demand for its second year in 2012.
  • Have your pupils gotThe ComiX Factor?- Renaissance Learning have teamed up with the National Literacy Trust and the Etherington Brothers to launch The ComiX Factor - a fun new competition for UK primary and secondary schools based around the power of comics and graphic novels to motivate reluctant writers. Prizes include original artwork from the Etherington Brothers and every participating school will receive a limited edition poster! For more information visit here

 

 

 

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