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Butterfly Conservation
Schools Minister Jim Knight has launched a new children’s website as part of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the charity Butterfly Conservation. Remarkably, as he was posing for pictures at the launch, a Red Admiral butterfly landed beside him and then moved onto his finger.
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Extended Schools & Extended Services
A free online guide for parents/carers, plus guidance for schools on producing information leaflets for parents/carers. Did you know that all schools will be extended schools by 2010? |
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Learn with Dogs
Meet the gang - Rex, Rosie, Zippy, Flick, Muffin and Digger - they all live in Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre, which takes care of them until they find a new home. They have lots of fun together.
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Helping your child through exam time
Children aren’t known for coming forward about their problems. Sometimes it can feel as though they don’t want to talk to you about anything. There are lot of reasons why your child might be bottling things up but a new poll shows that the main reason young people don’t share their worries is embarrassment. |
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Children missing out on Practical Skills at School
British children could be missing out on practical skills they need to make it in the real world. 85% of Brits think kids should be taught more about cooking and baking at school rather than purely focusing on intellectual study |
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Teachers Voice
Not everyone would regard the human voice as a tool but for teachers in particular, and for parents too, that is exactly what it is and it needs to be nurtured. |
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ActionAid launches new Chembakolli Resource
Following ActionAid’s award winning website Chembakolli.com, the international development agency has just launched another exciting teaching resource to extend Unit 10, A Village in India (QCA scheme of work). The photo-pack and DVD, ‘From Bangalore to Chembakolli’ takes children on an fascinating journey through the diverse communities, cultures and landscape of south India – from booming Bangalore city to the remote village of Chembakolli. |
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Making science fun
For centuries, Britain has dominated the world of science – particularly medical science. Some of the world’s greatest scientists have been British – think Issac Newton, Alexander Fleming, Joseph Lister, or James Watt. |
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THE CHILDREN OF THE PLAYGROUND REVOLUTION
Award winning artists Snug & Outdoor and Sutcliffe Play, one of the leading designers and manufacturers of children’s play equipment, have announced the arrival of ‘Snug’, a revolutionary new concept for school playgrounds. |
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RSPCA Encourage Animal Friendly Schools
Animal-friendly schools do more than just teach about animals. They encourage both teachers and pupils to think about animals’ needs and to develop a sense of care and responsibility for them. |
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Children from schools across the UK can now use their computer skills to sell or swap unwanted gifts and toys online in a bid to get to raise some cash and make mum and dad happy by clearing out their bedrooms at the same time! |
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The humble British blackcurrant has been announced this summer as the number one Superfruit which can help fight cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s, new findings show. Recent research by Dr Derek Stewart, of the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) has found the blackcurrant contains greater levels of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants than 20 other fruits tested |
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CRE Launches Web Site for Teachers
The CRE has today launched Teaching about slavery, an on-line resource for all secondary and primary school teachers. The web pages will for the first time, pull together a range of materials to assist teachers when covering issues relating to the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST). |
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Three- Step Plan to Stamp out Absenteeism
The national Every Lesson Counts campaign has enlisted Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Raj Persaud, to help advise parents on the best ways in which to tackle attendance problems with girls and children with special educational needs. |
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What has made these poems especially useful to children and also to ESL students, is the fact that Josie has added her own clear English voice recording to each of the poems, as children pointed out how useful this was as a tool to help them with reading. |
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In the beginning… there was blackboard and chalk. Then along came whiteboards with marker pens, same idea but neater, and without all that pesky chalk dust. These days, teachers can teach using interactive whiteboards, which as their name suggests, work interactively with a computer and multimedia projector |
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Newly founded Irish publishing house Special Stories Publishing has just released their exciting and unique collection of children’s books, The Special Stories Series. The series, launched in Temple St. Children’s Hospital, comprises 7 full colour picture books for children, parents, teachers and healthcare professionals that address a range of childhood health and social issues |
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Internet Safety - Life Skills |
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As the Internet and related technologies are now enmeshed in children's lives Barnardos in its 2008 Childlinks issue sets out to explore both the benefits and the dangers to children because of the Internet.
More>> www.webwise.ie/article.aspx?id=9314 |
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Language Teachers: Training in Berlin |
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Based on the experience of the Speech Bubbles project, European Schoolnet are offering a European teacher training course in October 2008 in Berlin. The deadline for application at the National agencies is the end of June. Please pass the message on to your colleagues. More>> http://www.23muskeltiere.de/course.htm
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Primalingua - we speak European |
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'Primalingua' is looking for primary schools in different countries, which would like to participate in their part of the European Lifelong Learning Programme. On a web-based learning platform, primary school pupils, aged 8-12 years, work on interactive learning units. They discover other children's lives in different countries, their environment and culture. The project starts in October 2008 and will end in June 2009. More>> www.primalingua.info/Home.749+B6Jkw9MQ__.0.html
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Organised by Amnesty International (Rep of Ireland & UK) and the teachers Unions - INTO in the Rep of Ireland and the UTU in the North of Ireland, Lift Off has been running since 2001 and uses human rights issues to support teaching and learning. All material is written by teachers and ties in with the SPHE curriculum. More>> www.liftoffschools.com/Default.aspx
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SAFIR - English and Working Life for Beginners |
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This is a web-based resource for teaching English which may be of interest. It contains 7 modules and has various tasks and exercises, including Grammar.More>> http://www.cfl.se/safirenglish
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Software Spotlight: FÍS and iMovie HD 06
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FÍS is a Film in School for Primary Schools project to explore film as a medium of expression and introduce pupils to aspects of film making process. It is an initiative of IADT and NCTE. Most of the films have been created using iMovie06. Regional screenings are currently on at the moment around the country.iMovie is part of the iLife’06 suite of programs. The iMovie HD6 program is a Apple movie editing programme used to edit digital imported from a DV camera via firewire to an Apple Mac Computer.More: www.softwarecentral.ie/Evaluations/iMovieHD06/
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The summer course schedule for fully funded ICT courses is now available on the NCTE’s website (http://www.ncte.ie/courseschedule). This contains details of ICT continuing professional development courses running in Education Centres around the country during July & August. For further information on these courses and booking details please contact your local ICT advisory service www.ncte.ie/advisornetwork. Courses are fully funded by the NCTE and primary school teachers attending these courses may claim EPV days for attending. |
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All NCTE courses are available as whole school training events. These can be run in your own school, customised to your staff's requirements and using the school's own technology. They are an ideal way to promote the use of ICT as a teaching and learning resource throughout the whole school. For more information contact your local ICT advisory service www.ncte.ie/advisornetwork.
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Developing an eLearning Plan |
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Developing an eLearning plan is a new 20 hour summer course, the objective of which is to provide the ICT co-ordinating teacher (or any teacher involved in ICT planning in their school) with the necessary information and tools to develop an eLearning plan for their school.
More information click here.
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Over 120,000 primary school children throughout the country are expected to take part in the Heritage in Schools Programme that has been significantly expanded this year to include a number of environmental specialists. |
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SchoolTube is for educators who want to:
- share approved videos nationwide.
- empower students and encourage creativity.
- join recognized leaders in video broadcasting.
- access lesson plans and helpful classroom information.
- encourage students to compete in moderated competitions.
More>> http://www.schooltube.com
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The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. It seeks to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site
to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. More>> http://www.teachertube.com
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New teachers' website delivers a strong lesson in e-safety
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The launch of the TeachToday.eu website fills a major gap in the web awareness puzzle. Many teachers may feel the need to address the e-safety issues in class but fear that they know less about the new technologies than their pupils; others consider that such issues should indeed be addressed in school but don’t know how to tackle a topic that is outside the official
curriculum and therefore unsupported. For more information click here.
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A great online resource for all who wish to learn more about the computer and internet. Click on the link above to find out how to achieve it. |
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| Great ideas on using the digital camera |
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For great ideas on using the digital camera for Maths in the junior classes, read an article entitled 'Ideas for using the digital camera for Maths in the junior classes' which was published recently in 'In Touch' magazine. It was written by Anne White of the NCTE. Read: http://www.ncte.ie/documents/InTouchFebruary08.pdf
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What started fifty years ago with a father’s simple desire to help his son with his maths homework, has today developed into a global network of students. Every hour worldwide, someone somewhere is studying Kumon. |
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Over the last year, I’ve been encouraged and surprised by the creativity and variety of school websites all over the country. Websites are hugely important. They allow children and teachers tell the story of their school using their own words and pictures. They also allow the school to present its core values, and so share its unique ethos with schools both in Ireland and overseas and with their local community. |
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Bebo workshops are now available in your local Education Centre.
It is suitable for all teachers, both primary and post-primary.
It will suggest classroom activities, practical resources and easily accessible support materials to incorporate Internet Safety good practice to enhance teaching and students learning.
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Teachers' TV Anti-bullying Resources |
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Access a range of resources to help address bullying in your school, including downloadable documents, websites ad video clips. For more information, log onto http://www.teachers.tv/bullying |
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This site provides real learning activities for young children. Lessons include letter recognition and letter building, on upper and lower case letters. The number activities include matching both the number and the name of the number with objects. It provides activities not only in English, but also in Spanish, French and German which means it could be used with children beginning to study those languages. For more information, visit http://www.scoilnet.com/article.aspx?id=8385 |
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Petmania have recently started to visit various primary schools with a selection of animals and educate the children on how important it is to research all about pet’s if they are planning to own one. Our Team will then get all the children to do a work sheet on a day in the life of my pet. In this work sheet the children must put in how to feed, exercise and clean a pet. |
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As many primary schools around the country look at the cost of upgrading and even rebuilding some or all of their buildings, parent’s councils are largely responsible for organising and raising funds for those extra projects that will help teachers implement the curriculum and make school life fun and interesting for children
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The Discover Primary Science programme and Molly Cool are ready to kick-start another exciting year of explorative activities, discoveries and Awards of Science Excellence for primary school children and their teachers.
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There are nearly half a million pupils in our primary schools. The INTO is demanding reductions in class size in order to improve the quality of their education, the quality of their future lives and indeed, the quality of this country's social and economic futures. Primary school must give all children a fair start in life
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Play is so critically important to children in the development of their
physical, social, mental, emotional and creative skills that every
opportunity is welcomed by parents.
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Most children love the annual school tour no matter where they go, some would be even happy to spend all day on the bus, although teachers (and long suffering bus drivers) would not agree! The best days out are fun, informative and memorable for the children and not too stressful for the teachers. |
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MAMBO ("Me And My BOdy") is an exciting new science programme aimed at primary school and young secondary school pupils. It combines an understanding of the human body with hands-on scientific investigation, teacher resources and interactive web content with stylish graphics.
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