Resources
On your bike Making the big match count
Cycling England has produced a set of classroom teaching materials For some time specialist
to complement Bikeability and encourage a cycling culture. The educational publisher Rising
interactive cross-curriculum materials fit the existing curriculum, Stars has had materials in its
particularly in design and technology, PSHE, PE and geography, and Double Club English series,
help schools achieve the objectives of the National Healthy Schools which use football-based
Programme. stories and scenarios, to
engage reluctant readers.
• Downloadable at
www.bikeability.org.uk/teacher A new development takes
this approach into the
teaching of mathematics.
Follow book awards on line
Double Club Maths is fully
linked to the mathematics
framework and is based on
Many schools already use the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Award
a fictional football club. The
shadowing facility to help engage young readers with the best of
ground, the team, the staff
writing and illustration for children, typically through readers’ groups.
and the club’s commercial
Taking its lead from social networking sites, CILIP announces major
operations are all used to
changes to the Carnegie/Greenaway shadowing site for 2009. New
teach key mathematical
features allow groups to upload video content and write blogs; design
concepts. Materials include
individual questionnaires and polls; and highlight favourite authors
Teacher’s Book, Pupil’s Books, squad cards and a CD-ROM. The
and link to past winning books. The new shadowing scheme began
materials cover Key Stages 2 and 3.
with the announcement of the 2009 shortlists on 24 April 2009.
• Visit
www.risingstars-uk.com
• Visit
www.ckg.org.uk/shadowing
Bullied by technology Let’s do the show right here
According to the NSPCC, 43% of schoolchildren are bullied at some As some form of play or musical seems to be becoming the normal way
point. Parents are often unaware that the mobile phone and internet of marking the end-of-a-year group’s time in your school, you may
so vital to their child’s social life can also be a source of frighteningly feel the need for some professional help in scripting and producing
intrusive bullying. Educational TV specialist Athena Education has an appropriately exuberant and reminiscent performance piece.
produced a DVD in its Good Parents Guide series that offers practical Edgy Productions offers just this with its Performance Pack ‘Do you
advice to schools and parents on how to be aware of, and react to, remember the first time?’.
these issues, together with other The pack consists of a CD with full and backing recordings of
forms of bullying. songs and sound effects, scripts, lyrics and scores, together with a
performance licence application form.
• Visit www.psepublications.
co.uk • Visit
www.edgyproductions.com
Education through celebration
Childs Eye Media has produced two award-winning DVD Plus
packages which link to the EYFS and Key Stage 1. Each package
shows a religious festival through the eyes of participating
children with DVD documentaries and a mass of teachers’ notes
and activities. The materials are endorsed by national bodies for
all the religions and cultural groups shown. The first package
covers Chinese New Year, Divali, Eid-ul-Fitr and Hanukkah; the
second Easter, Vaisakhi, eW sak and Christmas.
• Visit
www.childseyemedia.com
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Adventure Trails
Safety Surfaces
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Installation
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