It’s been another busy week with lots going on in education. Here are links to some of the headlines: Hundreds of school buildings projects were scrapped this week. However, there was confusion after the original report included errors which gave some schools hope that their plans were to go ahead, only to be cancelled later. [...]
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Memiary – your online class diary
I’ve been a user of Memiary for a long time now. I use the site to record five things that I’ve done / achieved / want to remember each day. I also use the tool in my classroom… as a class, we spend a few minutes at the end of each day recording five things [...]
Poetry Competition for Under 11s
The site ‘What a Hullabaloo‘ is running a poetry competition for children under 11. To enter, pupils should finish a poem that has been started by the author Phillip Whittington. To find out more about the competition, which closes on 8th January 2010, visit the site at www.whatahullabaloo.com. Phillip has also contributed a set of [...]
Competition – Win DK books!
DK.com have kindly offered a set of fantastic DK children’s books as a competition prize for readers of Teaching News and visitors to Teaching Ideas. The books up for grabs are: Ask Me Anything – stuffed with trivia, facts, fun, and incredible info on just about everything you can think of. What’s the most dangerous [...]
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra is a wonderful site, containing interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read. The site can be used at school or at home. www.roythezebra.com There are worksheets, lesson plans and interactive activities to help children with their understanding of capital letters, full stops, words [...]
Young Author of the Year Stories
Intuitive Media run a number of safe social learning networks for children (including Superclubs Plus and Goldstar Cafe). The children at my own school love using Superclubs Plus to send email, design their own webpages, chat in forums and meet other children in the moderated environment provided by the service. Intuitive Media and Scholastic have [...]
Over 500 Ideas to Inspire!
Ideas to Inspire now has over 500 ideas! The site originally started as somewhere to host my ‘Ideas to Inspire Writing’ presentation. Since then, Tom Barrett, Doug Belshaw, Mark Clarkson, Joe Rowing, Tony Cassidy and Noel Jenkins have kindly allowed me to add their presentations to the site, which all receive hundreds of visitors each day. The site is expanding at [...]
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