Explore this week’s education news articles and find out about educational events that are taking place next week.

New Writing, Science and MFL resources on Teaching Ideas
Download lots of new, free resources from Teaching Ideas, supporting Writing, Science and Languages in your classroom!

Teaching News and Events (29/1/11)
Read the latest education-related news headlines and discover educational events which are taking place next week…
Teaching News and Events (4/12/10)
Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Snow has dominated the news this week which has resulted in thousands of school closures. Many schools have used the Internet to support learning at home. MPs are to vote on controversial plans to raise tuition fees in England on 9 December, ministers have confirmed. [...]
Brush up on language skills abroad
CILT, the National Centre for Languages is running a Primary Teachers’ Project, which gives teachers a chance to spend two weeks in France, Germany or Spain next spring topping up on their language skills and picking up new teaching ideas. Image – Arc de Triomphe Teachers spend one week in intensive language and methodology workshops [...]

Things I’ve discovered on Twitter recently (part 5)
Here is a selection of some interesting and educational things that I’ve found recently, via my Twitter network: Zooburst – This amazing site lets you make your own 3D augmented reality pop up books (via @relativism, @xannov and @ianaddison). Application for Headship - Information and advice for those who need to write a letter of application [...]
New Education Apps
EducationApps have been busy building lots of new iPhone and iPod Touch apps for use in education. Here are some of their latest additions: Ultimate Times Tables – A fun way for children of all ages to learn their times tables. This has four different types of tests and allows up to five users to [...]
My French Resources
MyFrenchResources is an extremely valuable site for teachers of KS3, KS4 and KS5 French. It is full of downloadable resources, all clearly organised by year group and topic. Lots of the KS3 resources might also be useful for older KS2 students. www.myfrenchresources.com The site’s Welcome page, also has some useful display and assembly resources for [...]






