Silver Award
The Niki Davies Book of Everyday Songs
Supplier/Distributor/ Manufacturer/Publisher: Out Of The Ark Music
Tel: 020 8481 7200 Web:
www.outoftheark.com Price: £23.95 Age range: 3-6 years
Description: 20 catchy songs full of energy and fun, so you can sing your way through every day! Includes everyday subjects such as getting dressed, tidying up, lunchtime, plus ideas like encouraging each other to have a go and putting your thinking cap on.
Score: 88.1% ISBN: 978-1-906988-45-6
What the testers said: “Absolutely brilliant – the children and staff got a great buzz from the music book and CD. The songs are so catchy, small children
were captivated by them. Encourages individual and group participation in songs and activities about everyday subjects which children can relate to. The book is nicely illustrated and well written. Overall, a great product for speech and language development.”
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Nursery Rhythm Kit Manufacturer: Sound Children
Tel: 0800 1577 686/ 0115 931 4513 Web:
www.soundchildren.co.uk
Price: £141-£143 (education – £99) Age range: 1-5 years
Description: 14 percussion instruments with lots of variety to encourage all sorts of movements and interactions, a big drum for the teacher. Comes with Music Cards with hints and ideas for 25 musical play sessions, plus information about each of the instruments. Everything fits neatly into the compact bamboo storage basket.
Score: 88.1%
What the testers said: “All the children really enjoyed this, investigating the new instruments and looking at how they could be used before they were told how to use them. Good ideas in the instruction cards, best suited to adult-led and directed learning or older children who could read and follow multiple stage instructions. Great content and a good storage basket too.”
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Teachers Kit
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Manufacturer: Sound Children Tel: 0800 1577 686 Web:
www.soundchildren.co.uk Price: £129 (nursery price) Age range: 1-5 years
Description: The perfect add-on for settings that have lots of good instruments already includes a drum for the teacher, 30 music cards with hints and ideas for 25 musical play sessions and some unusual extras: stethoscopes, harmonicas, ping-pong balls and wrapping paper. You’ll be amazed by how much learning can be sparked off by a little blurring of the normal musical boundaries.
Score: 86.5%
What the testers said: “The children absolutely loved this! They have really enjoyed using the ping pong balls on the drum and listening to the different sounds. They have been quickly bored with some other instruments but this held their interest. It is great value for money as it contains such a wide variety of instruments. The instruction cards had some really good ideas which really appealed to our age group.“
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September 2013 Issue 148 for Schools
Performance-related pay – ‘the work has only just begun’
School leaders have been warned that the ‘work has only just begun’ over the move to performance-related pay for classroom teachers.
Schools across England have been rushing to create and consult upon new performance-related pay policies, which had to be in place at the start of this month.
The move to performance-related pay for classroom teachers was approved in April, meaning schools only had the summer term to revise and consult on their pay policies.
The first pay decisions under the new system will take place from September 2014, but policies must be in place now
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After the rush to draw up revised pay policies, schools now face the ‘acid test’ of implementation and the challenge of training and supporting staff and governors to adjust to the new system.
so that teachers are fully aware of what is required to achieve progression.
School leaders now face the challenge of fully briefing and training all staff and governors and providing the additional support to help them adjust to the new system.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said that performance-related pay is welcome in principle, but that the timescale has been ‘immensely challenging’ in light of wider education reform and ongoing industrial action.
He said: ‘The vast majority of secondary school leaders have now amended and consulted upon their pay policies and made concrete and manageable plans for preparation and careful, measured implementation.’
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However, he added: ‘The work has only just begun as all schools will need to provide teachers and governing bodies with additional training, briefing and support.’
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, agreed, adding that the implementation of performance-related pay will be the real ‘acid test’.
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The Wolfson Foundation
Amount of award Up to £100,000 Deadline
30 November 2013
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www.wolfson.org.uk
Historic Scotland Amount of award £2,000
Deadline Ongoing
Contact details
www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
The Lefèvre Trust
Amount of award Up to £5,000 Deadline
30 September 2013 Contact details
http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil. org/programmes-and-funding/ the-lefevre-trust#
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