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Teaching News and Events (25/6/11)
What has been in the education news this week? Strikes, exams and tests, school sports, educational visits and much more. Don’t forget to look at this week’s Teaching Events too.
Free tattoo transfers for school trips
PleaseCallMum is a new child safety initiative which has recently launched a promotion to help teachers taking young children out to crowded locations on school trips. PleaseCallMum supplies temporary tattoo transfers that can be personalised with a designated mobile number and applied easily and discreetly to a child’s forearm. PleaseCallMum is offering over 1,000 free tattoo [...]
Let nature feed your senses
Let Nature Feed Your Senses is an England-wide project to provide farm and nature reserve visits for children, older people, people with disabilities, and others who have difficulty visiting the countryside. The visits are supported by the Big Lottery and Natural England and are tailored to suit different ages and abilities. www.letnaturefeedyoursenses.org For more information [...]
BBC Thrillseeker Campaign
The BBC is running a Thrillseeker campaign throughout 2010, which was established with the aim to encourage children to be active and experience new things outdoors. Kingswood Educational Activity Centres have been working with the BBC on the campaign and have created resources for teachers to use. The worksheets (embedded below) are designed to get children thinking about how [...]
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 [...]
Resources from the Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum has just launched new learning resources to support school visits to Cocoon, the interactive visitor experience at the heart of the new Darwin Centre. There are pre and post-visit sections introducing students to an activity which they gather information for as they go round the Cocoon experience. They can be used [...]
Map of Outdoor Learning Experiences
Peter Richardson has started a ‘map of outdoor learning experiences’ (also known as MOLE) which teachers can use and contribute to. The map, created using Google Maps, identifies opportunities for learning outside of the classroom, all of which have been contributed by other teachers. You can also add to the map yourself, sharing places that [...]
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