School suppliers Smart Kids
Smart Kids is an award-winning supplier of resources for the primary curriculum. Its simple ethos is that it takes the curriculum and key learning objectives and turns them into fun games and products. Smart Kids specialises in providing resources and whole class schemes for Literacy, Numeracy and PSHE. Aside from this core range of highly popular resources, the product range also includes support for children with various
special educational needs: ADHD, Autism, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, and those with English as an Additional Language. Resources to develop children’s memory and speaking and listening skills are also offered.
New products to the range include demonstration and student multiplication squares, letters and sounds, new Graphemes chute cards and English Writing prompts. All of Smart Kids’ resources are multi-sensory and engage learners through the use of play with every item being bright,
colourful and tactile, allowing children to work independently or as part of a group. In particular its Letters and Sounds Phonics kits and Number Smart Maths kits provide solutions for essential parts of the primary curriculum. All resources are guaranteed to provide hours of fun and engagement in learning. Every product has been designed with the help of educational practitioners which has in turn resulted in the significant growth of Smart Kids’ business.
uwww.smartkids.co.uk
Maped Helix
Maped Helix has been synonymous with quality educational products for many years; Oxford represents traditional premium academic school accessories, Helix is a range of quality technical education equipment and Maped offer practical and ingenious products for schools. Helix school stationery and equipment has helped innumerable students through their schooling. Known across the
globe for having the world's original maths set, the brand- leading Helix Oxford Maths Set continues to equip millions of pupils worldwide. Since joining forces with Maped, the Helix brands are now complemented by design-led, user-friendly and innovative
Maped products. Products such as the Award Winning Jungle Innovation are used in classrooms all across the country leaving the days of scattered pens, lost lids and general scenes of colouring carnage in the past. The Jungle Innovation felt tip pens bring a sense of innovation to a traditional product. The resource features ultra-bright, high quality washable pens in one flexible compact holder. Further new and innovative items added to the education range include the Maped Kidy’board, an ultra-safe, educational
product for children who are learning to write. It includes thematic exercise sheets that correspond to school programs for different age groups. It also provides links to constantly changing downloadable content for new activities and exercises. Maped Bunny Innovation is the Educative Pencil Sharpener which combines fun and innovation to teach children how to sharpen pencils correctly. Proving to be highly popular with teachers and parents the unique Maped Color’peps Smoothy Crayons feature a plastic, twistable body so hands don’t get mucky. The triangular shape makes them easier for young children to grasp and the smooth texture allows the bright colours to be blended and smudged to create beautiful artwork.
uwww.mapedhelix.co.uk
British Film Institute BFI Education runs an annual programme of schools events from its base on London’s South Bank.
Its programme
covers study days in all modern languages, from KS2 – KS5, Film and Media Studies, and events for English and literacy, as well as programme for primary. Typically an event will comprise a morning of interactive activities and a relevant screening in the afternoon. BFI
publishes teaching resources to support learning about and through film in all the major subjects. Find out more about its schools’ programme here:
www.bfi.org.uk/education The BFI also supports film education in schools across the UK through Lottery funding for Into Film, its delivery partner. To find out how to set up a Film Club, and to support the curriculum through a range of film related resources, contact Into Film at
www.intofilm.org For 16-19 year olds BFI Film Academies’ offer is particularly exciting, with various opportunities to get involved in
the film industry, at 44 locations across the UK. Local participation can lead to a series of national residential courses, in Film Production, Animation, Visual Effects, and Programming running every spring.
uwww.bfi.org.uk/education
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