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Previous sites of
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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. |
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Visit BETT to keep up to date with
what's happening in ICT. |
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Olympia, London
7th -10thJanuary, 2004 |
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5th January, 2004 |
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Roaming the Red
Planet - see Nasa's latest pictures from Mars |
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12th
January,2004 |
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Brilliant on-line
teaching resource for History from
Key Stages 2 to 5. Use original
sources including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings. |
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19th
January, 2004 |
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Register now to attend the Northern
Education Technology Show at Newcastle Arena on February 5th and 6th:
exhibition and seminar programme. |
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26th
January, 2004 |
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Visit The British Heart Foundation site,
make up your
own poem and have it read aloud by an unreal celebrity! |
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9th
February, 2004 |
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BBC Science Clips |
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36 interactive resources linked to the QCA Scheme of
Work for Science - ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard. |
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23rd
February, 2004 |
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Grey Olltwit's Freeware |
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A site packed with free activities to
download - thanks to Red Row First School for recommending it! |
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8th March, 2004 |
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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. |
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15th March, 2004 |
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An interactive dictionary of over
500 mathematical terms in simple language - and it's fun!
Thanks to Wensleydale Middle for their recommendation. |
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22nd March, 2004 |
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The Youth Sport Trust |
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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. |
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19th April, 2004 |
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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! |
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26th April, 2004 |
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Create your own
Picasso!
Great fun and easy to use. |
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4th May, 2004 |
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Lots of free
resources for Key Stage 1 up to AS level. Don't miss the
microscope activities! |
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24th May, 2004 |
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Ready for Euro 2004 |
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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. |
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7th June, 2004 |
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Fed up with football? Play
Joust - a Tudor
game devised by the National Archives and the Victoria and Albert
Museum. |
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14th June, 2004 |
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Wimbledon starts today! |
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All the latest news and photos. Will
this be Henman's year? |
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21st June, 2004 |
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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. |
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28th June, 2004 |
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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! |
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5th July, 2004 |
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Big Brown Envelope |
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Stop reinventing the wheel!
Click here for lots
of teaching resources created by teachers for you to download. |
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31st
August, 2004 |
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Useful
whiteboard activities for English, Maths and Science from the
Birmingham Grid for Learning. |
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6th
September, 2004 |
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It's worth revisiting the Alnwick
Gardens site. Have a look at their new educational resources. |
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13th
September, 2004 |
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Explore the Artist's Toolkit to find out about line,
colour and shape and build your own works of art - great fun! |
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4th
October, 2004 |
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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. |
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11th
October, 2004 |
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A site produced by children for
children, listing all school subjects with hundreds of approved
links to curriculum based information. Worth a look! |
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18th
October, 2004 |
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Lots of interactive
resources for Science and Engineering. Aimed at 9 -11 year olds, but
useful for older pupils too. |
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15th November, 2004 |
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Click here
for our own Christmas page with clipart, activities and a brand new
Advent Calendar! |
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29th November, 2004 |
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This year's Advent calendar
Click on the house to enter........or
click here to
download the story book to make |
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6th December, 2004 |
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Information about
the disaster and how you can help from
BBC Newsround. |
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See also the
BBC News site. |
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4th
January, 2005 |
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This site has educational resources
for Holocaust Memorial day on January 27th. |
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24th
January, 2005 |
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Picsearch is a child
friendly search engine for pictures and images - give it a try! |
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31st
January, 2005 |
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Join in the BBC's
Springwatch: the biggest ever survey into the arrival
of spring across the UK! |
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7th February, 2005 |
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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. |
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21st February 2005 |
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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. |
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28th February 2005 |
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A wealth of resources for
teachers and students of English language and literature -
KS2 to A level. |
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14th March 2005 |
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An
illustrated story of the arrest, trial and crucifixion of
Jesus Christ from Topmarks Education. |
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14th March 2005 |
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Lots to explore in this
interactive site from JK
Rowling.
Thanks to Whitfield First School for recommending it! |
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11th April 2005 |
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National
Whiteboard Network Summer package |
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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 |
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18th April 2005 |
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Animated tales from Scotland,
Finland, Brittany, Italy & Iceland. |
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25th April 2005 |
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Learn History
has FREE History resources such as PowerPoint lessons, revision
content, quizzes and research help. |
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9th May 2005 |
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Interactive games, quizzes and
diagrams - well worth a look even if you're not revising! |
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16th May 2005 |
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Free interactive resources for Maths
and Science to use on your whiteboard. |
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6th June 2005 |
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Need to stretch your brain? Try the
Problem Page on the Brainboxx site - lots to choose from! |
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13th June 2005 |
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It's that time of year again!
Keep up to date with all the latest events at Wimbledon! |
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20th June, 2005 |
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The Live8 concerts are being
held around the world on 2nd July.
Find out about the background to the Long Walk to Justice here. |
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27th June, 2005 |
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The
Learning and Teaching Scotland website has a range of
royalty-free educational images |
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Choose from historical themes such as
Greeks & Romans, or Minibeasts and natural habitats. |
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4th July, 2005 |
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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. |
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19th
September, 2005 |
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Lots of free resources to download
from this site to suppport Literacy, Numeracy, History and
Languages. |
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26th
September, 2005 |
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It's
National Poetry Day on Thursday! Vote for the poem you
would most like to send into space. |
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3rd October, 2005 |
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200th Celebrations
of the Battle of Trafalger
21st October 1805
Find out all the facts using the links below
BBC Homepage
CBBC
Newsround |
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21st
October, 2005 |
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Bonfire Night
is coming soon!
Woodlands Junior School has lots of well presented info on
the day. |
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Also see their pages on
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31st October, 2005 |
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The Royal British Legion has
produced a useful
schools
pack with links to National Curriculum History and
Citizenship. |
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7th November, 2005 |
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Read the story of Goldilocks in
French! Resources coming soon.
Watch out for Spanish and German versions too.... |
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14th November, 2005 |
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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. |
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9th
January, 2006 |
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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. |
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16th
January, 2006 |
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BBC Springwatch
Survey 2006 |
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Join in the survey tracking the
arrival of Spring around the country. |
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30th
January, 2006 |
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Ancient
Greece |
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Brilliant website from the British
Museum with clear information, opportunities to explore and
interactive challenges. |
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27th February, 2006 |
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New website supporting healthy
schools initiatives. Interactive projects, information sheets,
PowerPoint presentations, posters and activity cards to
download. |
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13th March, 2006 |
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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. |
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27th March, 2006 |
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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.
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3rd April, 2006 |
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Download the new version of the
SMART Board software now!
New features include audio and video support, a searchable
gallery and increased curriculum content. |
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24th April, 2006 |
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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. |
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2nd May, 2006 |
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A fun way to learn touch typing from
BBC Schools. Make sure your speakers are turned on! |
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8th May, 2006 |
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Problem Solving
and Enquiry |
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Lots of resources, including school
case studies and video clips of lessons and from Learning
and Teaching Scotland. |
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15th May, 2006 |
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The
Learning Resource Kit is a completely free tool to
help secondary schools manage their resources (books, software,
classroom equipment etc) more effectively. |
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22nd May, 2006 |
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School Day: South Africa |
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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. |
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12th June, 2006 |
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Three French Fables |
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Three brand new interactive stories
to support the teaching of French, designed for use on the
interactive whiteboard. Not to be missed! |
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26th June, 2006 |
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Film Street
is designed to unlock imaginations, introduce the joys of film
and encourage creative expression through filmmaking - it's also
great fun! |
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17th July, 2006 |
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The Great Fire of London broke out
on September 2nd, 1666. Set your whiteboard ablaze with this
interactive resource produced by the TES! |
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4th September, 2006 |
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Resources, activities and clipart to
download from this site - great for using on your whiteboard! |
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11th September, 2006 |
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International Day of Peace
21 September |
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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.
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18th September, 2006 |
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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. |
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9th October, 2006 |
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Free
Flash resources for teachers: Fridge Magnets, Hangman, Lingo
Bingo and Bish Bash Bosh...! |
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16th October, 2006 |
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Brilliant site about the
Gunpowder Plot with archive material suitable for pupils
from KS1 to KS4. |
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30th October, 2006 |
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Remembrance
Sunday
12th November 2006 |
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School website with clear information about Armistice Day
and links to a selection of war poetry. |
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6th November, 2006 |
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Britain's Bayeux Tapestry |
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Create your own Bayeux Tapestry with this brilliant
interactive activity from the Museum of Reading. Extra
supporting activities also available to download. |
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13th November, 2006 |
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Innovating with History |
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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. |
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20th November, 2006 |
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You may have met
Corinne Lewis
at one of our Nodi launch events last week... |
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...now's
your chance to look at her amazing work in more detail! |
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27th November, 2006 |
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Christmas is coming!
Visit our Christmas page
for lots of activities and links... |
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December, 2006 |
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It's Burns Night on 25th
Jan! |
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Hear and
read the poetry of Robert Burns on this
BBC Scotland site! |
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22nd January, 2007 |
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Lots of fun
activities here to try out on your interactive
whiteboard. Don't look for instructions - experiment!
Great for Foundation Stage upwards. |
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29th January, 2007 |
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Free ICT
resources for teachers and students covering Key
Stage 3, GCSE, A Level, ECDL, Key Skills and DiDA
courses. |
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5th February, 2007 |
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Chinese New Year
Sunday 18th February |
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Thanks to
Kent NGfL for a useful page of activity suggestions
and links for the Year of the Pig! |
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12th February, 2007 |
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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.
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5th March, 2007 |
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Cleoflics - a brilliant resource to learn about
animation - try it! |
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19th March, 2007 |
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BBC Schools Easter page with the background to
the Easter story, suggested activities and useful
weblinks. Happy Easter! |
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26th March, 2007 |
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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. |
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16th April, 2007 |
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Brand new
website with resources and links to support G&T
provision in Northumberland. |
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Now
updated with Event info! |
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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. |
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14th May 2007 |
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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. |
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21st May 2007 |
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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! |
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4th June 2007 |
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Fascinating site which gives a photographic
introduction to the archaeology of the Cheviot Hills and
the surrounding area.
Take to the hills! |
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18th June 2007 |
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Concerned about climate
change? Find out how you can join in this campaign next
week. |
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25th June 2007 |
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