Tag Archives: English
Shakespeare’s Treasures
Just read about this brilliant competition through the Bee-It blog. Aimed at young teenagers, this is a virtual treasure hunt designed to hone information skills. The prize is a beautiful – and valuable- gilded mask; ‘Shakespeare’s Treasure’. There are two … Continue reading
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World Cup story
Justin at Gobowen Primary told us yesterday about Tom Palmer’s episodic World Cup story, featuring football detective Danny Harte. Tom is writing and publishing a new chapter every day throughout the World Cup, including actual events as and when they … Continue reading
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NEN: Be a reporter for a day! Something for your pupils…
Are you a budding news hound? Would you like to win a new laptop and a year’s free broadband? All you have to do is make a short report telling us how you think “technology is changing the way we … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, English, Enhancing the curriculum, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
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How to write great headlines
This article by Stuart Brown gives 5 great tips on headline writing – its aimed at people who write on the Net (the subheading is ‘Or, to put it another way: ‘Awesome Top 5 ways to get Dugg and billions of … Continue reading
PSHE resources
Teenage Cancer Trust have some good quality materials aimed at 11-17 year olds which encourage discussion about this often taboo issue. The material is written by teenagers and teachers for teenagers and teachers and could be used in PSHE or … Continue reading
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Headline History
The latest ictopus newsletter mentioned a website which enabled pupils to read newspaper style articles about the Tudoes, WWII, Victorians and Romans. So I headed to http://www.headlinehistory.co.uk/ to take a look. Its even better than that – pupils can read about … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, English, enhancing the curriculum, Enhancing the curriculum, History
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Video on the cheap
Despite the obvious learning opportunities it offers, sometimes it’s difficult to justify buying a digital video camera for everybody. There are limitations to using a DV camera; usually you need to connect the camera to the computer to get the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, busbi, Design and Technology, elearning, English, Enhancing the curriculum, flipcam, Geography, Hardware, History, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Maths/Numeracy, MFL, Music, PSHE & Citizenship, RE, video
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Film clips and trailers
I was recently asked where to get film clips/trailers from the net. Came up with the following: http://creative.bfi.org.uk/titles/ – British film institute http://www.imdb.com/ – scroll down to the bottom of the page and there’s a link for ‘trailers’, which can … Continue reading
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Online scripts
I was asked recently if I knew of any non-fiction scripts online, that could be used as part of a Year 5 literacy unit. No problem, I thought – but its much more difficult to find any than I ever … Continue reading