Products/resources Fancy getting your hands dirty?
More than a million grubby hands have been raising money with Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Mini Pots of Care schools fundraising activity over the past fi ve years. Schools receive
hands dirty?
their planting kits in autumn. Children plant a daffodil bulb in their own mini pot and learn to care for it throughout the winter months while collecting donations. A Mini Pots of Care Day in spring gives children the opportunity to celebrate their daffodils in bloom. On this day children get creative and paint their pot wrappers, learn about the work of Marie Curie Cancer Care and raise funds. By fundraising, your school will be helping to support the vital work
of Marie Curie Nurses. They provide high quality nursing, totally free, to give people with terminal cancer and other illnesses the choice of dying at home, supported by their families. It is a simple way to get involved and a great way of teaching children about science and nature.
• Visit
www.mariecurie.org.uk/minipotsofcare or call 08700 340 040 by September 30, 2010.
Adaptable to your needs
Adaptaboard takes all the letter and number skills of the Morphun learning system and combines these with the vast experience of the Adaptaboard company which is owned by a newly retired UK teacher. It promotes enjoyable, creative, interactive learning through a
patented system of teaching using magnetic tiles on a magnetic board with a simple grid. Tried and tested in the classroom, the new Morphun Adaptaboard
brand has a wide range of multi-sensory, hands-on numeracy and literacy products to choose from. Each product provides tactile, magnetic tile based activities to teach both numeracy and literacy skills in a child-friendly more fun way.
• Visit
www.adaptaboard.co.uk Understanding homelessness
Housing and homelessness charity Shelter has produced an online classroom kit that offers an interactive programme of themed work exploring the complex issues they deal with every day. Packed with exciting and stimulating free resources, including videos, drag and drop activities, games and information slides, the kit is designed to inspire students while meeting key curriculum objectives. Four key stage 2 lesson plans (for geography, design and technology,
English and citizenship, ) explore what “home” means to children in Britain and around the world. They consider what it means to be without a home, and encourage feelings of empathy with families who are homeless.
• Visit
www.shelter.org.uk/teachers 6
Health & safety answers
HeadSafe is a new web based e-learning resource specially designed for headteachers, school business managers, governors, school bursars and anyone else who is responsible and involved in managing health and safety issues in the education sector. Whether you are concerned about asbestos in your school, pupil
safety on school trips, fi re safety, the content of your school’s health and safety policy or simply whether, as a headteacher or school leader, you are doing enough to manage health and safety, HeadSafe provides you with the answers. Making use of interactive learning, HeadSafe provides users with
a course based on real life issues, whilst also providing access to a number of downloadable safety resources and templates that school managers can put to good use in their own school environments. HeadSafe has been developed by Three Spires Safety Ltd, a risk
management consultancy based in Coventry. • Visit
www.headsafe.co.uk
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