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Top Five Discoveries (25/9/11)
Find five wonderful new resources that you can use in your classroom!
Top Five Discoveries (17/6/11)
Find five new and exciting educational resources that you can use in your classrooms!
Sing Up Workshops
Sing Up is launching a new set of professional development workshops running until February 2011. The programme of one-day workshops, which are led by the country’s top singing leaders, have already been popular with music and educational professionals. The training aims to build the confidence and expertise of teachers and musicians in leading and supporting [...]
BBC Audio Resources
The BBC have a huge collection of audio resources for primary schools on their School Radio pages. These include: Dance and PE Workshops, Music activities and audio clips to use in lessons, Collective Worship resources, History audio clips and more… www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio Accompanying teachers resources are online and many of the audio programmes are available as [...]
Free sounds to use in the classroom
Alan McKinney from SoundScalpel has kindly contributed a large collection of sound effects to Teaching Ideas. You can download these sounds and use them in your classroom for: Adding atmosphere to lessons, Assemblies, School performances, Adding sound to children’s ICT / multimedia work, Addition to a school website / VLE. www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/dramasoundeffects.htm I’ve also recently discovered www.freesfx.co.uk which [...]
National Centre for Early Music
The National Centre for Early Music, a venue for concerts and festivals, also offers a varied musical outreach programme and produces many learning resources designed to widen participation in music. They have free learning resources aimed at key stages 2 to 4 which can be downloaded from their website, covering 17th century music, music and art in Saxon [...]
Fame Idle – Year 6 Production
Many Year Six classes put on a performance at the end of the year to mark the end of their time at their primary school. Although the end of the academic year is still a few months away, here are details of a new musical for those teachers who want to plan ahead! ‘Fame Idle [...]
Cyberkidz
Cyberkidz is a Dutch ‘edutainment’ site with lots of educational games, covering Maths, Literacy, Geography, Art, Music and more. The games are sorted by subject and age range, suitable for children aged 4-11. www.cyberkidz.net The site has recently been translated into English, so even more children are now able to take advantage of these resources.
Sing Up
Sing Up is a new campaign to encourage schools and communities to use singing in a range of ways. The Sing Up site states that “Every child deserves the chance to sing every day. Singing improves learning, confidence, health and social development. It has the power to change lives and help to build stronger communities.” [...]
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