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View items...400 ticket giveaway for young technology enthusiasts at Tech City's Digital Summer Camp
By Techmix on 24 May 2013, 13:13pm
Free tickets to London's biggest digital day trip on the 12th of July are exclusively available to Innovate My School users for a limited period. The day will be packed full of interactive workshops and exhibitors at a Digital Summer Camp based at Hackney Community College!
Please book your groups in as soon as you can by going to our tickets page and entering the promotional code ‘InnovateMySchool'.
Tech City, home to over 1,340 tech companies hacking, building and making cutting-edge digital products and innovations is to host a Digital Summer Camp on the 10th, 11th and 12th July 2013, which is set to ignite a passion for computing in 3,000 hot shot technology entrepreneurs aged 9-18 keen to create their own digital products and to learn from the world’s best programmers and digital producers. Sponsors include The Mayor of London’s Office, Pearson, The British Computer Society, The Big Society and Tech City Investment Organisation.
Come to Innovate My School LIVE on 2nd July @ Homewood School, Kent!
By Innovate My School on 23 May 2013, 10:03am
This one-day innovation event is bringing some of the most established thought-leaders in education and future headliners in technology-based learning to Homewood School in Kent, giving schools a rare insight into the freshest innovations and vital technological trends and developments that will define education for years to come.
There will also be an exclusive live case study and demonstration, delivered by Homewood School's senior management, on how they have successfully flipped their classrooms using technology.
Digital Nursery unveils its new and evolved tilting table
By Digital Nursery on 22 May 2013, 14:12pm
Route 2/Digital Nursery has launched its new interactive table product, The Tilt & Touch.
The new product retains all the fun and function of the hugely popular C-Point Table and its touch applications which are designed to reflect the EYFS and Key Stage 1 Curriculums, and combines that with the ability to tilt and lock the screen in place.
This allows smaller children to access the table more easily, opening up the age usage, and for it to be used in circle time for story-telling or activities for the whole class.
“We think the Tilt & Touch is the next step in the evolution of the product,” said Route 2’s Commercial Director, Richard Bijster.
New guide aims to revolutionise the use of visualisers
By Elementary Technology on 22 May 2013, 09:29am
Visualisers are a proven teaching tool in today’s classrooms, and the benefits of using a visualiser can be immediately observed. But for many teachers understanding their use and value is still problematic, largely due to a lack of organised and coherent information on applying visualisers as reliable learning tools in classrooms.
Elementary has recognised the need for modern educators to have a foundational resource that can aid them in procuring, adopting and making the most of visualisers in a demanding curriculum context.
How does it work?
The Definitive Guide to Visualisers in Today’s Classrooms helps teachers who are educating pupils from Key Stages one to four, in understanding the benefits of visualisers and their specific uses as a collaborative learning tool.
The Guardian launches new roadshow on planning for your school's future
By The Guardian Teacher Network on 21 May 2013, 12:04pm
Beginning in Birmingham on the 4th of June this year, The Guardian in partnership with Zurich Municipal are organising their first-ever roadshow centred on 'Planning for your school's future'. The venue will also take place in London, Cheltenham and Liverpool in the following days.
Expert speakers, school leaders and business managers will all come together to share insight and provide advice on the best methods of practice and strategic planning, while also allowing a large scope for discussion and questions.
Who's speaking?
Key speakers include the charismatic educational thinker Sir Tim Brighhouse who, before retiring in 2007, has held fundamental positions in the educational landscape including Chief Education Officer for both Oxfordshire and Birmingham and Chief Adviser for London Schools, where he figure-headed the turnaround of performance in schools in the lowest performing boroughs.
Laboratory Technician Apprenticeships now available for schools
By CSR Group on 17 May 2013, 13:18pm
High demand for people with science and technical skills has ensured an opening for schools and other educational establishments to take advantage of new Laboratory Technician Apprenticeships issued by innovative training provider CSR Group.
The Advanced Laboratory Technician Apprenticeship programme is a Government funded programme which is expected to fill skills gaps within the sector, particularly where budgets are tight.
Mobile Learning Essentials offer safety with social learning
By Lightspeed Systems on 17 May 2013, 10:42am
Lightspeed Systems has always been embedded in safety, but they have grown to become what they call a Mobile Learning Essentials company—combining safety with device management and a platform for collaborative learning. Joel Heinrichs, Lightspeed Systems CEO says, “Yes, we build a filter, we have My Big Campus, but these pieces are most effective as elements of a combined solution.”
Just as education can no longer be separated, they believe that the elements of Mobile Learning Essentials are inseparable and work together as one holistic solution for safe, mobile, and collaborative education.
Working together to support children with learning difficulties
By Dore on 16 May 2013, 11:54am
The involvement of parents in their child’s education is recognised as hugely beneficial: it promotes important two-way communication between the school and the family, fosters common aims and provides all-round support for the child. Ofsted recommends that schools should “engage parents in supporting pupils’ achievement, behaviour and safety and their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development” (The Framework for School Inspection, Ofsted, Jan 2013).
For pupils with Special Educational Needs, this involvement is critical. The Lamb Inquiry looked into the most effective ways of increasing parental confidence in the SEN assessment process, stating that, “Good communication is not just better for parents and professionals, it is better for children. In the most successful schools, the effective engagement of parents has an impact on children’s progress.” (Lamb Inquiry, Crown Copyright 2009)
1,000 school pupils to discover the Brian Cox effect
By Adaptable Travel on 14 May 2013, 09:46am
Professor Brian Cox, one of the worlds’ leading particle physicists, will deliver a unique science lesson to 1,000 school pupils from across the UK, who will hope to discover more about science at Science Discovered!.
Labelled the ‘Brian Cox Effect’, Professor Brian Cox has been at the forefront of helping to make science fashionable with take-up of the subject now at some of the highest levels ever at A-Level. Science Discovered!, organised by school science trip specialists Adaptable Travel, will be held in London in November and is aimed at Key Stage 4-5 science pupils from across the UK.
Special report shows SAM Learning helps maximise Pupil Premium
By SAM Learning on 13 May 2013, 17:10pm
As Pupil Premium funding increases to £2.5 billion in 2013-14, and each disadvantaged child attracts £900, schools are now being asked to demonstrate how they are spending their Pupil Premium.
To help schools achieve this, and to save teachers' time, SAM Learning has developed a special report that enables Free School Meals students to be easily targeted and monitored. The Fischer Family Trust conducted an independent study showing that Free School Meal students gain an average of 3.5 GCSE grades (+12.3 capped points score) better than expected with as little as 10 or more hours of using SAM Learning.
