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Previous sites of the week

We've finally reorganised this page, but don't worry, you can still find all the previous sites of the week from the last couple of years. They've been grouped into subject areas and can be accessed using the links on the left.
If you have a site that you would like to recommend, please use the feedback form to tell us about it.
Visit BETT to keep up to date with what's happening in ICT.

Olympia, London
7th -10thJanuary, 2004

5th January, 2004

Roaming the Red Planet - see Nasa's latest pictures from Mars

12th January,2004

Brilliant on-line teaching resource for History  from Key Stages 2 to 5.  Use original sources including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings.

19th January, 2004

Register now to attend the Northern Education Technology Show at Newcastle Arena on February 5th and 6th: exhibition and seminar programme.

26th January, 2004

Take a tour of English Online -  a fascinating Internet resource for secondary English teachers. Don't miss the Word of the Week!

2nd February, 2004

The Real Valentine

Visit The British Heart Foundation site, make up your own poem and have it read aloud by an unreal celebrity!

9th February, 2004

BBC Science Clips

36 interactive resources linked to the QCA Scheme of Work for Science - ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard.

23rd February, 2004

World Book Day
Thursday 4th March

Lots of resources here to help celebrate World Book Day including author details and extracts
Also visit the Online Festival website for schools resources.

1st March, 2004

adders.org add/adhd support group

Grey Olltwit's Freeware

A site packed with free activities to download - thanks to Red Row First School for recommending it!

8th March, 2004

A brilliant site for anyone teaching or co-ordinating ICT.  Lots of free  teaching resources for KS3 and GCSE including lesson starters, tutorials and quizzes.

15th March, 2004

An  interactive dictionary of over 500 mathematical terms  in simple language - and it's fun! Thanks to Wensleydale Middle for their recommendation.

22nd March, 2004

The Youth Sport Trust

A good site for keeping up to date with two of the Government's flagship School Sport and PE initiatives – Sports Colleges and School Sport Co-ordinators.

19th April, 2004

The sun's out, so exams must be on the way!

Check the BBC's ReviseWise site for games, activities, fun facts and revision quizzes for KS2 SATS.
Only 2 weeks to go!

26th April, 2004

Create your own Picasso!
Great fun and easy to use.

4th May, 2004

Get those brain cells working!  Thinking Skills activities for 11-19 year olds  (and older!)

10th May, 2004

Lots of free resources for Key Stage 1 up to AS level.  Don't miss the microscope activities!

24th May, 2004

Ready for Euro 2004

Resource packs for KS2 and 3 with worksheets for Geography, English, Maths and Science, plus competitions to win tickets and the use of the England squad's bus for the day.

7th June, 2004

Fed up with football? Play Joust - a Tudor game devised by the National Archives and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

14th June, 2004

Wimbledon starts today!
All the latest news and photos. Will this be Henman's year?

21st June, 2004

Register now to run a mile on July 10th! Lots of lesson ideas and resources for Citizenship, PSHE and PE on the at school page.

28th June, 2004

A new website to support the Primary Strategy. Lots of resources to download to help you make best use of your Interactive Whiteboard. The site is still in the development stage so keep checking back for new resources!

5th July, 2004

Big Brown Envelope
Stop reinventing the wheel! Click here for lots of teaching resources created by teachers for you to download.

31st August, 2004

Useful whiteboard activities for English, Maths and Science from the Birmingham Grid for Learning.

6th September, 2004

It's worth revisiting the Alnwick Gardens site. Have a look at their new educational resources.

13th September, 2004

Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic

Hundreds of Chemistry quizzes from KS3 to A -level!

20th September, 2004

Crick School in Northamptonshire has lots of interactive resources for Maths, Literacy, Science and Early Years.

27th September, 2004

Explore the Artist's Toolkit to find out about line, colour and shape and build your own works of art - great fun!

4th October, 2004

An online reading scheme with lots of free samples of phonic and downloadable books which can be printed for children to keep. Thanks to Val Young from Cornhill First for recommending this site.

11th October, 2004

A site produced by children for children, listing all school subjects with hundreds of approved links to curriculum based information. Worth a look!

18th October, 2004

Learning Curve is a free online teaching and learning resource, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5.

1st November, 2004

City Creator is a fun simulation program for Primary pupils. Choose between a medieval city, a snow covered town or a modern city.

8th November, 2004

Engineering Interact

Lots of interactive resources for Science and Engineering. Aimed at 9 -11 year olds, but useful for older pupils too.

15th November, 2004

There are now 32 Interactive Teaching Programs to support the teaching of Numeracy on the Primary Strategy website - all suitable for whole class teaching with a whiteboard.

22nd November, 2004

Click here for our own Christmas page with clipart, activities and a brand new Advent Calendar!

29th November, 2004

This year's Advent calendar
Click on the house to enter........or click here to download the story book to make

6th December, 2004

Click here for our tsunami special section

Information about the disaster and how you can help from BBC Newsround.
See also the BBC News site.

4th January, 2005

Holocaust Memorial Day

This site has educational resources  for Holocaust Memorial day on January 27th.

24th January, 2005

Picsearch

Picsearch is a child friendly search engine for pictures and images - give it a try!

31st January, 2005

Join in the BBC's Springwatch: the biggest ever survey into the arrival of spring across the UK!

7th February, 2005

Free software to download from Sebran in Sweden! Try Alphabet Rain, it is intended for young children but is fun for all ages and brilliant for keyboard skills.

21st February 2005

Answers.com

A different type of search engine which gives you concise information rather than a list of links. Also try 1-Click Answers for instant information about any word on your screen.

28th February 2005

It's this Friday! RND 05
See the Newsround guide here.
Find out what's happening locally here.

7th March 2005

A wealth of resources for teachers and students of English language and literature - KS2 to A level.

14th March 2005

An illustrated story of the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ from Topmarks Education.

14th March 2005

Lots to explore in this interactive site from JK Rowling.
Thanks to Whitfield First School for recommending it!

11th April 2005

National Whiteboard Network Summer package

Designed to support teaching and planning in Years 1 to 6 in the Summer term. Included are annotated planning, electronic resources and stand-alone lessons to support the use of the IWB to enhance teaching and learning

18th April 2005

 

Animated tales from Scotland, Finland, Brittany, Italy & Iceland.

25th April 2005

The Foundation Stage section of Coxhoe School has well organised links to lots of resources.  Worth checking the rest of the site too!

2nd May 2005

Learn History has FREE History resources such as PowerPoint lessons, revision content, quizzes and research help.

9th May 2005

ReviseICT.co.uk

Interactive games, quizzes and diagrams - well worth a look even if you're not revising!

16th May 2005

The Dole 5 a Day site has lots of fun ways to find out about healthy eating - try the broccoli song! The teacher's section includes a wealth of printable resources too.

23rd May 2005

Free interactive resources for Maths and Science to use on your whiteboard.

6th June 2005

Click the knot to return to this page Need to stretch your brain? Try the Problem Page on the Brainboxx site - lots to choose from!

13th June 2005

It's that time of year again!
Keep up to date with all the latest events at Wimbledon!

20th June, 2005

The Live8 concerts are  being held around the world on 2nd July.
Find out about the background to the Long Walk to Justice here.

27th June, 2005

Thumbnail image of ladybird

The Learning and Teaching Scotland website has  a range of royalty-free educational images
Choose from historical themes such as Greeks & Romans, or Minibeasts and natural habitats.

4th July, 2005

There's still time to enter - closing date is October 31st. Age range 5 to 18 with three categories to choose from: video, still images and music.

19th September, 2005

Lots of free resources to download from this site to suppport Literacy, Numeracy, History and Languages.

26th September, 2005

It's National Poetry Day on Thursday! Vote for the poem  you would most like to send into space.
 

3rd October, 2005

Music Quizzes for KS1 -K3
Tests of musical ability, knowledge and understanding
Free  quizzes to download!

10th October, 2005

200th Celebrations of the Battle of Trafalger
21st October 1805
Find out all the facts using the links below
BBC Homepage
 CBBC Newsround

21st October, 2005

Bonfire Night
is coming soon!  Woodlands Junior School has lots of well presented info on the day.
Also see their pages on Divali

31st October, 2005

The Royal British Legion has produced a useful schools pack with links to National Curriculum History and Citizenship.

7th November, 2005

Read the story of Goldilocks in French! Resources coming soon.
Watch out for Spanish and German versions too....

14th November, 2005

Advent Calendar 2005

Best viewed full screen - press F11

Click here to go to our Christmas activities page.
Try out our 3 new resources below.

Guides to make decorations
Stained glass   Bauble  Star

 December, 2005

New Year's Resolutions
 with a difference!

Complete lesson resource pack from Oxfam for pupils aged 7-14

5th January, 2006

It's BETT week again! Keep up to date with new ICT products and services or view the seminars online if you can't visit.

9th January, 2006

ARKive is fantastic digital library with films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species. See also ARKive Education for lesson plans and additional resources.

16th January, 2006

Chinese New Year
begins
 29th January
and it's the
 Year of the Dog!

Find out all about the celebrations!

23rd January, 2006

Frog spawn feature

BBC Springwatch Survey 2006

Join in the survey tracking the arrival of Spring around the country.

30th January, 2006

Time Pirates Adventure

Stop the evil genius and his time pirates from stealing history!

6th February, 2006

Winter Olympics 2006
Turin
 10 - 26 Feb 06

The games have started! Find out more from BBC Newsround,

Also visit the official Turin website and download resources and lesson plans from the Kid's Village.

13th February, 2006

 

Ancient Greece

Brilliant website from the British Museum with clear information, opportunities to explore and interactive challenges.

27th February, 2006

 

 

 

6th March, 2006

 

Food - a fact of life logo

New website supporting healthy schools initiatives. Interactive projects, information sheets, PowerPoint presentations, posters and activity cards to download.

13th March, 2006

 

Fed up with using clunky ways of adding foreign language characters to documents? Download the international character toolbar set for Office XP - works in Word, Outlook and PowerPoint for 26 languages.

27th March, 2006

 

These pages use pictures selected from various Web art galleries to stimulate discussion and debate about the events which form the Easter story, the people who were involved, and the people who have explored the story for two thousand years since then.

3rd April, 2006

 

Download the new version of the SMART Board software now!
New features include audio and video support, a searchable gallery and increased curriculum content.

24th April, 2006

 

A useful online tool which enables schools to assess and benchmark their use of ICT across all their activities, helping them to identify where they are, and showing the practical steps they can take to improve their ICT use.

2nd May, 2006

 

A fun way to learn touch typing from BBC Schools. Make sure your speakers are turned on!

8th May, 2006

 

Problem Solving and Enquiry

Lots of resources, including school case studies and video clips of lessons and  from Learning and Teaching Scotland.

15th May, 2006

 

The Learning Resource Kit is a completely free tool to help secondary schools manage their resources (books, software, classroom equipment etc) more effectively.

22nd May, 2006

 

Nearly there!
Check the Official World Cup site for all the latest news.
See also the NAACE Primary site with online activities and downloadable materials.

5th June, 2006

 

School Day: South Africa

Take part in a special interactive day for schools on Wednesday June 14. Check the Africa Special feature on the Newsround site for lots of background information.

12th June, 2006

 

Newsround World Cup Special

All the latest news, plus lots of background information on the teams and their countries.

19th June, 2006

 

Three French Fables

Three brand new interactive stories to support the teaching of French, designed for use on the interactive whiteboard. Not to be missed!

26th June, 2006

 

 Northumberland Physical Education and School Sport

Brand new site with everything you need to know about PE and School Sport in Northumberland!

3rd July, 2006

 

Film Street is designed to unlock imaginations, introduce the joys of film and encourage creative expression through filmmaking - it's also great fun!

17th July, 2006

The Great Fire of London broke out on September 2nd, 1666. Set your whiteboard ablaze with this interactive resource produced by the TES! 

4th September, 2006

Resources, activities and clipart to download from this site - great for using on your whiteboard!

11th September, 2006

International Day of Peace
21 September

The United Nations General Assembly designated 21 Sept as the International Day of Peace, a day of cease-fire and peace-building activities to be celebrated around the world.

18th September, 2006


Join in the Autumnwatch survey carry out a seed hunt and find out about the Supergoose migration

25th September, 2006

Check the National Poetry Day website for lesson plans and printable posters.

2nd October, 2006

Log on to the Shoo Fly Pie website to download posters, bookmarks, games and activity sheets to accompany the brilliant interactive stories sent out to First and Special schools in the summer term.

9th October, 2006

Free Flash resources for teachers: Fridge Magnets, Hangman, Lingo Bingo and Bish Bash Bosh...!

16th October, 2006

Brilliant site about the Gunpowder Plot with archive material suitable for pupils from KS1 to KS4.

30th October, 2006

Remembrance Sunday
12th November 2006

School website with clear information about Armistice Day and links to a selection of war poetry.

6th November, 2006

A fantastic interactive to build your own tapestry

Britain's Bayeux Tapestry

Create your own Bayeux Tapestry with this brilliant interactive activity from the Museum of Reading. Extra supporting activities also available to download.

13th November, 2006

Innovating with history website

Innovating with History

Website designed to help schools plan and teach innovative history courses, based on the national curriculum programmes of study, which will engage and motivate pupils aged five to 14.

20th November, 2006

Creative Partnerships


You may have met Corinne Lewis at one of our Nodi launch events last week...

...now's your chance to look at her amazing work in more detail!

27th November, 2006

 

Christmas is coming!
Visit our Christmas page for lots of activities and links...

December, 2006
Happy New Year 2007!

Fireworks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Looking at New Year Resolutions with your class?

Download a lesson resource from Oxfam's Cool Planet website
or try the Newsround PSHE lesson and quiz.

8th January, 2007

Big Schools Birdwatch

Get ready for the RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch - starts next week!

15th January, 2007

Burns Night

It's Burns Night on 25th Jan!

Hear and read the poetry of Robert Burns on this BBC Scotland site!

22nd January, 2007

Lots of fun activities here to try out on your interactive whiteboard. Don't look for instructions - experiment! Great for Foundation Stage upwards.

29th January, 2007

Teach-ICT.com Home Page

Free ICT resources for teachers and students covering Key Stage 3, GCSE, A Level, ECDL, Key Skills and DiDA courses.

5th February, 2007
Chinese New Year
Sunday 18th February

Thanks to Kent NGfL for a useful page of activity suggestions and links for the Year of the Pig!

12th February, 2007

It's March 1st on Thursday and it's World Book Day!
Check this site for Preschool, Primary and Secondary resources to download, as well as author biographies and extracts.

26th February, 2007

Next week is Science Week and Alnwick Garden is hosting a number of exciting events, including Teachers Treat days this weekend, opportunities to Meet the Scientists and a chance to see the garden Larger than Life with the digital microscope and camera.

5th March, 2007

It's Red Nose Day this Friday!
Download teaching resources and online kits or have fun nose-ifying yourself!

12th March, 2007

Cleoflics - a brilliant resource to learn about animation - try it!

19th March, 2007
Easter eggs

BBC Schools Easter page  with the background to the Easter story, suggested activities and useful weblinks. Happy Easter!

26th March, 2007
Steljessoftware

Visit the Community section of this site for secondary whiteboard activities in English, Maths, Science, History and Chinese! Includes detailed lesson plans written by subject associations to accompany the Notebook files.

16th April, 2007

Brand new website with resources and links to support G&T provision in Northumberland.

Now updated with Event info!

Northumberland is piloting this online teenage health quiz for young people aged 12-14. It enables them to monitor their own health and make changes. The project is supported by the NHS and the Healthy Schools Initiative.

14th May 2007

Studying the Industrial Revolution? Bring it to life with this site! "Walks on The Wilde Side" is a joint venture between Tyne and Wear Archives and Wild Melon History.

21st May 2007
London 2012

Find out all about the new logo for the London Olympics or have a go at creating your own and have it displayed in the online gallery!

4th June 2007

Try out the free, downloadable teaching games and templates for Foundation, KS1 and 2  from Kent NGfL!

11th June, 2007

Fascinating site which gives a photographic introduction to the archaeology of the Cheviot Hills and the surrounding area.
Take to the hills!

18th June 2007
CYW logo

Concerned about climate change? Find out how you can join in this campaign next week.

25th June 2007

An amazing portal to the countries, cultures and nations of the world.

2nd July 2007

Have fun experimenting with  collage layouts on screen - try the auto button to get ideas.
There's also Collage Machine 2 if you get hooked...!

9th July 2007

The holidays are nearly here! Have fun planning what you're going to do or just relax for a bit and help Sponge Bob find his pants!

16th July, 2007

The Northumberland Schools Information Website & Electronic Courier has been updated. Use the link to the guide on the home page to find your way around.

3rd September, 2007
 European Day
 of Languages

  September 26th

Join 45 countries across Europe in celebrating language and cultural diversity! Lots of free resources to download, as well as ideas for activities and competitions in school.

10th September, 2007
 

Resources, lesson plans, web links and files to help with the teaching  of Science from KS3 - KS5.

17th September, 2007
 

Ictopus is a new website to support the teaching of ICT across the Primary curriculum. Register now to download free Lessons2Go and browse the weekly Sharing Good Practice newsletter.

24th September, 2007
 Fruit Labelling in French
 

Crickweb has 130 interactive activitities for Primary Maths, English, Science, History, Geography, R.E., D.T., French and Spanish!

1st October, 2007
 Audio Network plc

 Audio Network has 6,000 amazing recordings of high-quality music used by professional film, television and media producers. Northumberland schools are now able to access this resource free of charge and download a huge range of music for ICT and digital video projects across the curriculum. Please note that under the terms of the Education Licence you are only able to access this site in school.

8th October, 2007
  The British Pathe Archive

 An amazing resource, with 3,500 hours of high-quality digitised newsreel film covering events from the death of Victoria to the birth of Space travel.
Under the terms of the Schools Licence, when you access the site in a Northumberland school you can now download the high resolution/small watermark versions free of charge.
Book on one of our courses and find out more

15th October, 2007
 BBC Children In Need Children in Need

This year's appeal is on Friday 16th November

Visit the Children in Need site to download resources including fundraising packs and posters and assembly plans for Primary and Secondary - only 3 weeks to go!

29th October, 2007
 The Royal British Legion Home Page Remembrance Sunday

 11th November

The Royal British Legion has a School's Pack plus six A4 posters to generate activities about History and Citizenship both inside and outside the classroom. 

5th November, 2007
 

Follow Rob and James on their 22,000 mile journey from the North pole to the South pole.

12th November, 2007
 

We are delighted to announce that we have won a European Award for Languages, one of only fifteen outstanding language initiatives  to receive the EU award this year. Find out more...

26th November, 2007

Heritage and technology come together to create a one stop shop for teachers.
All images are copyright free. Teachers will find classroom ready resources, whiteboard downloads and interactive activities to support the teaching of history, citizenship and many more subjects.

14th January 2008

BETT Award Winner

Bee-Bot Lesson activity software is full of imaginative lesson activities and challenges and allows the user to build and save a 3D world for Bee-Bot - great fun! Download a free trial!

It’s time for the ‘Nodis’ again! Following on from last year’s fantastic response we again running the Northumberland Digital Learning Awards for all schools in the County.
Click on the link to find out how to get involved.

Alnwick Garden invites all teachers, classroom assistants, lecturers and support staff to take part in their Science Weekend on Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th March. Register between 10am - 2pm to collect your FREE ticket.Have a go at winning a laptop for your school by taking part in the IBM TryScience Competition.
Click on the links below for further information.

Lots of resources to help you track the arrival of Spring and investigate nature throughout the year.

Email Project

36 classes have registered to take part in the 5th email project which commences Monday 21st April. The test email has been sent!
Good luck!

Viral Vinnie, the host of Gut Instinct
Can you match Viral Vinnie's appetite for English, Maths and Science? Play Gut Instinct on KS2 Bitesize!

21st April, 2008

A unique adventure in sound for adults and children. With narration, sound effects, songs and videos, it's a totally new kind of musical experience. Great fun!

28th April, 2008

Bitesize

It's that time of year again!
Bitesize can help you at KS1, KS2, KS3 and with your GCSE revision.
If you want to be super-organised, have a look at the Revision and Skills pages - they even have revision timetables for KS3 and GCSE.

6th May, 2008

Smart 10

Lots of great
new features...
 - time to upgrade!
Now available to download from the Smart Technologies site.

30th June, 2008

Marc Chagall. I and the Village. 1911

It's Chagall's birthday this week.  Click here to see  paintings and find out about his life, or browse 88 of his art works at MoMA.

7th July, 2008

Beijing Olympics 2008

Get the latest news about the games - , diaries, pictures, videos, quizzes, links and more ....

14th July, 2008

Nodis Awards
July 4th 2008

A collection of photographs to celebrate the event.

5th September, 2008

Thanks to Paul Heeley for recommending Elastoplast Stories. Why did you need a plaster? Was it a scratch from an arctic leopard or was it a burn  from a robotic laser sniper?
Create your own stories  using  the story builder and have a go entering the competition!

15th September, 2008

Our latest interactive story of The Three Little Pigs is now available in four languages. (English version coming soon!) Come along to the Northumberland Languages Conference to find out more....

22nd September, 2008

Lots of free resources from BT to help with speaking and listening skills. These range from DVDs and online activities to books and downloadable guides.

29th September, 2008

'Inanimate Alice' is a fantastic resource which tells the story of Alice and her imaginary digital friend, Brad. Four episodes of the story are currently available in a choice of five languages - don't miss it!

20th October, 2008

Lots of information here about the Gunpowder Plot and teachers' notes on using the resources:    

KS1/2 version

 

KS3/4 version

 

3rd November, 2008

BBC Children In Need

Children in Need
 Friday 14th November

Visit the Children in Need site to download useful resources and fundraising packs.

10th November, 2008

Anti-Bullying Week

Resources to support activities during Anti-Bullying Week.
Also visit the Beat Bullying site for young people.

17th November, 2008

Use the link above to find out all about this years event and how to register to take part. We aim to make it even bigger and better.

24th November, 2008

The world’s largest educational technology event is on in London next week - find out more!

5th January, 2009

Enjoy reading and listening to myths and legends on the E2BN site and have a go at writing your own!

19th January, 2009

Chinese New Year

The Year of the Ox starts on January 26th. Find out more here!

26th January, 2009

Tree of Life

Explore the evolutionary links between living things with the Wellcome Trust's Tree of Life video animation, developed as part of the Darwin 200 activities to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.

2nd February, 2009

European Safer Internet Day
10th February

The perfect opportunity to introduce internet safety to students or to consolidate the teaching already implemented. Download a pack of resources including new KS2 and 3 assemblies. Also try out these e-safety games from the NWLG.

9th February, 2009

Unlocking Archives

Unlocking Archives provides you with the key to three of the world’s most extraordinary collections, The National Archives, film from the British Film Institute and photographs from English Heritage complete with an ever expanding set of ready-to-teach activities. Click here to try out a lesson starter.
23rd February, 2009

Maths and English Matters

Here it is at last. The long awaited launch of the Maths and English Matters (MAEM) site! We hope you will find everything you need to support teaching and learning in these core areas of the curriculum.
3rd March, 2009

BBC Class Clips

A fantastic collection of video clips for Primary and Secondary linked to subject and topic areas. Thanks to Lorna Moore of East Hartford School for recommending this site.

16th March 2009

A good web-site for endangered animals, with factsheets, pictures, sounds and video. Great for Science and English report writing in Year 3. Thanks to Tony Sparkes from Seaton Delaval for recommending this week's site!

23rd March 2009

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes. Thanks to Paul Heeley from Newsham for recommending this week's site!

30th March 2009

Lots of free printable resources for Foundation and KS1 - banners, word mats, topic words, classroom labels and signs.
Try Sparkle Box 2 for KS2 resources.

20th April 2009

An easy to use, clutter-free site for finding all kind of sound effects and musical instruments samples.
Thanks to Paul Heeley of Newsham First for recommending this site.

27th April 2009

Sketchbooks in Schools has resources aimed at promoting and supporting the creative use of sketchbooks in primary schools.
Resources for both teachers and pupils, plus opportunities for schools to contribute.

5th May 2009

The Anne Frank Trust

Anne Frank's birthday was June 12th - she would have been 80 this year.
The Anne Frank Trust have provided resources to mark the day and materials for a School Assembly to download too.

Tate Kids

Great interactive activities for KS1-3.
Visit the teacher section of the Adult Zone for lesson plans to make best use of the resources.

15th June 2009

Recycle now!

Visit the Recycle Now site for lots of resources and activities to help you join in at school - don't miss Busta's rap!

22nd June 2009

Finalists Day Alnwick Garden 2009

29th June 2009

Italian

Have fun brushing up on your language skills in 36 languages from Albanian to Luxembourgish to  Ukranian!

13th July 2009

Apollo Near You interactive feature.

40 Years ago this week, men landed on the moon. Visit the NASA Apollo Anniversary site to find out more, including a link to Google Moon.

20th July 2009

From September, Northumberland schools now have free access to Interactive Resources Online. Training courses to help you make the most of this valuable resource are available at a choice of six venues around county during September - book your place now!

7th September 2009

This week Ictopus has launched a new service in addition to its popular Lessons2Go, Sharing Good Practice  & Pictopus image gallery.
Now families can subscribe to a new fortnightly magazine called

ictopus@home

Read the first issue here!

14th September 2009

Languages in the Creative Curriculum

Dissington Hall, 7th October '09

Online booking is now open for the 2009  Northumberland Language Learning Conference - book now!

21st September 2009

Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World was first broadcast on the BBC in 1965 and ran for nearly 40 years. You can now watch selected episodes - including a 4 year old operating a home computer terminal in 1967!

5th October 2009

World News for Children

Thinking of trying out podcasting? Get some ideas from World News for Children: a 4 minute weekday news bulletin for 7-14 year olds. Read the accompanying scripts on the BBC World Class website

12th October 2009

Artisan Cam's Picture Book Maker

Have fun creating your own zoo story with Artisancam's online  picture book maker and enter the competition - closing date 30th Nov

19th October 2009

 

Find out more about the theme of this year's Anti-Bullying week and access additional copies of the  resource pack  which has been sent to all schools in England.

2nd November 2009

Signed Stories

A growing collection of favourite children's stories, designed primarily for deaf children, but great fun for all - accessible in British Sign Language and in text, pictures and sound.

9th November 2009

Anti-Bullying Week 16 - 20 Nov

The Anti-Bullying Alliance site has a  resource pack  including posters, leaflets, lesson ideas and advice for teachers. See also the Digizen site to access a Cyberbullying film for KS3 pupils.

16th November 2009

The Great Plant Hunt

Are you using your free primary science resources?
Treasure chests went to all UK primary schools in March and since then thousands of children have been plant hunting. Everything you need to take part is on the website including all the teaching resources and extras such as films and interactive games.

23rd November 2009

Victorian Christmas

It's that time of year again...!
Have fun learning how to play Victorian Parlour Games, sing traditional Christmas Carols and make your own toy theatre.

30th November 2009

snowflake puzzles

Visit the Met Office Education site for weather related activities suitable for KS1-4, including snowflake puzzles. Check the forecast on the main Met Office site - more snow on the way?

4th January 2010

Visit our new e-Safety area of the site with updated bulletins and circulars.

11th January 2010

Schools Birdwatch 2010

Get involved in this year's Schools' Birdwatch, and you'll not only be taking part in the world's biggest birdwatch, but also helping to monitor UK bird numbers.
New for 2010 is Little Schools' Birdwatch - designed for Early Years settings, and run in partnership with Cbeebies show 3rd & Bird.

18th January 2010

Robert Burns

Celebrate Robert Burns' birthday on 25th January by reading and listening  to some of his poetry, including Address to a Haggis.....or try out some of the resources for  Early Years, Primary  and Secondary on the Learning and Teaching Scotland site.

25th January 2010

Pirates on a ship

If you want even more pirate activities, try this British Council site with games, quizzes, songs and pirate masks to print.

22nd March 2010

The Easter Story

Interactive activities from NGfL Cmyru on the Easter story and how Christians celebrate Easter today.

29th March 2010

Sign up for a Global Gateway project to start exciting World Cup activities with schools around the world. The project is free and you will be eligible for funding!

 

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Great interactive History resources  from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - try Dress the Roman Soldier  - printable resources too!

 

Podium Top Tips

Have you tried podcasting yet?
There are 50 ideas to get you started in this guide from Podium as well as tips and case studies.

Remember - all Northumberland schools are licensed to use Podium!