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Innovate My School Newsletter
19 April 2012
Expert articles - inspiration from industry experts

3 ways to make your school funds grow
Rachel Gordon gives a selection of easy-to-implement money raising schemes for your school.
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Unqualified teachers in schools
John Bishop discusses the current quality of vocational training, as recommended in the Wolf Report.
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Marketing your school’s image and getting the right message across
Colin Wells gives his tips on using school signage to help market your school to visitors, parents and staff.
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Teacher blogs - ideas from innovative teachers

6 ideas for teachers when launching an iPad deployment
Laura Knight gives six pieces of advice for anyone leading the teaching and learning side of an iPad deployment in their school.
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The ‘flipped class’ report
Daniel Edwards reflects on his trial of using a 'flipped classroom' for teaching and learning.
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How to turn your old school netbooks and laptops into Google Chromebooks
Julian Wood describes how to revitalise your old netbooks and laptops by upcycling them into Google Chromebooks.
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Hot offers - latest freebies and discounts

£350 off internet & web filtering package
Education Connect - a fully featured, managed internet and web filtering package - has been reduced from £3,000 to £2,650 for Year One. Subsequent years are provided at £1,700 per annum.
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£100 discount on The Key membership
Simply type the code “Innovate2012” in the “Name of referring school leader” field on the registration form and The Key will waive the normal £100 joining fee.
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Acer Veriton Desktop only £382.80
DarBro are offering the Acer Veriton X2610G Desktop, C13/2120 processor, 2GB Ram, 250GB harddrive, DVD RW, Windows 7 Professional 64bit for only £382.80 ex VAT.
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Competitions - win prizes for your school

Win £25 WHSmith vouchers + year's subscription to Bully-Watch
Tweezy Online Ltd are asking teachers, especially art or design teachers, to have their classes design promotional posters for their Bully-Watch scheme.
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Win an iPod Shuffle
To celebrate the hard work of both staff and students throughout the academic year, U-Explore have launched a Summer term quiz and there is an iPod shuffle up for grabs!
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Win £500 for your school
YOUSRC are running their annual app programming competition with two prizes each worth £500 for schools (one prize is age 16 and under, one is 17-18).
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Supplier news - updates from the education marketplace

Langeroo numbers topic updated for cross-curriculum teaching
Langerroo have added a variety of mathematical concepts to their Scene Maker Tool.
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Sponsored Values programmes snapped up
The Shanly Foundation have offered to pay for 10 copies of the Human Values Foundation's ready-to-teach Education in Human Values programme.
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Primary school students make video about programming with robots
Students from Park Road Primary School have made their own video explaining how to programme with the mOway robot.
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Events - free innovation & CPD

TES Resources Show North - 20-21 April 2012

Offering a hub of advice and resources for primary and secondary educators, early years specialists, and SEN professionals, this one show promises to have it all: exciting new products and services from hundreds of exhibitors, creative free workshops, and insightful CPD seminars.

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