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Watch the birdies (EY-Y6)
The RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2010 takes place from 18 January to 1 February. The RSPB has teamed up with 3rd & Bird, the award winning CBeebies pre-school show, and BBC Worldwide to produce the first Little Schools’ Birdwatch pack for little ones to take part this year.
• For more information and free teachers’ packs visit www.rspb.org.uk/schoolswatch or ring 0300 456 8340.

So adoptable (KS4-5)
Adopted young people aged 15-23 have produced The Adoptables, a magazine and DVD to combat negative attitudes. The pack, with worksheets and games, is available to secondary schools.
• Order from Lorraine on 01509 600 306 or email lorraine@coram-ema.org.uk or Steve on 0121 666 6014, email adoptionsupport@tiscali.co.uk.

War poets (KS3-4)
Oxford university has launched an online Seigfried Sassoon collection, focusing on his war poetry
• www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections.
Users of its WWI poetry digital archive can view previously unseen material such as manuscripts, letters, and original diary entries from poets including Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg, and also explore the trenches.
• www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/11/ww1simulation.aspx.

Survivors’ tales (KS2 upward)
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) has released a short film, narrated by Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, which focuses on survivors’ stories for Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
• The film can be viewed at www.hmd.org.uk/resources/item/340.


Fundraising

Get greener (All schools)
Support Your School gives UK schools the chance to raise funds and meet sustainability targets. It gives schools £1 per printer cartridge and £3 per mobile phone successfully recycled and reused. Sign up online and order your free pack with everything you need to recycle for a year. Parents and businesses can sign up too to support their chosen local school.
• Visit www.supportyourschool.co.uk.

Training

Anyone for tennis? (All KSs)
Insurance group Aegon supports tennis in schools
with resources that include a coach-led DVD. New tools are designed to give teachers everything they need to offer tennis and to challenge old-fashioned views of the sport. An equipment pack is provided free to teachers who attend the training course.
• Details from Tom Gibbins at the Tennis Foundation on 0845 872 0522. www.schoolstennis.org.

COMPETITION

Win a luxury flat (Teachers)
Help the Cystic Fibrosis Trust raise £50,000 – and win a luxury flat into the bargain! CF, a life-threatening, inherited disease, kills three young people every week.
• Find out how to enter at www.winaluxuryflat.com.


MORE RESOURCES

On reflection… (KS1-2)
Over 410 child pedestrians are killed or seriously injured going to and from school. Nationwide building society has distributed a million cats’ eyes reflectors to schools across the UK as part of its free online safety education programme. The cats’ eyes help children increase their visibility to motorists when they attach them to coats or bags.
• For more information visit www.nationwideeducation.co.uk.

Music for your car(ears)! (KS4)
To encourage students to consider their future careers, the Institute of Physics has produced an excellent free resource pack for schools and colleges that gives students the chance to discover more about the practical applications of physics. The Ashfield Music Festival allows them to try out life as sound or lighting engineers at a music festival.
• For details and/or a pack, email education@iop.org.

Wherefore art thou? (KS3-4)
Views from the balcony: ways of teaching Romeo and Juliet is an exciting new DVD from the National Strategies based on video footage of rehearsals of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 production. There are ten units of teacher resources to accompany it, including a range of lesson plans and worksheets.
• For details visit www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/nationalstrategies/pr3/shakespeare.

Hands on history (All KSs)
The National Archives provide students with direct access to the greatest collection of original historical source material in the world. Accompanying activities help develop key skills at all levels by allowing students to investigate key historical questions. Workshops include Jack the Ripper, Votes for women and the British Empire.
• Visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education.