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Have come across this brilliant offer from FantastICT!  They are offering their Gold Package for the cost of the Silver Package, saving you a whopping £300 on your new website!  For £900 you get:

Download the flyer to find out how to contact them and start your New Year off with a brilliant new website!

Website Packages from FantastICT

Perfect!  This came out last year, but still makes me smile!
 

I am always looking for ways to improve this blog and would love to hear your suggestions!  If you have any ideas or requests for things you would like to see, leave a comment for me and I will see what I can do!

Thanks
Sally

The Four Nations Maths Challenge is free to every school in the UK to take part.  Children from the four nations will unite in their quest to reach the top of the leader board by answering thousand of maths questions.  Registrations open on 31st October 2011 and the event opens for practice on 7th November 2011.  The challenge will end at 12 midnight on Friday 18th November 2011.

The Four Nations Maths Challenge

Download this exciting adventure game and complete set of teacher resources to support your teaching of the Gunpowder Plot.

The game will be available for download on 31st October 2011 together with the first in a set of four teacher resource packs.

The Gundpowder Plot

I love this website!  What a brilliant way to share music with children – for once a safe site that you can use in the classroom without any worries!  Can’t recommend it enough! 

Find all the music tracks and videos here…..

This should make you smile……………….brilliant!!

Gaming industry leaders fear that a lack of computer science teaching in schools is denying youngsters the opportunity to learn how to use computers creatively and will leave the country bereft of necessary skills.

Watch this interesting report on BBC Newsnight

 BBC Link

 Can the UK raise its game?

 Scratch – free programming tool

We have two sessions running at the Kingston Centre to support you with e-safety in your school:

360 Degree Safe Self Review Tool
This is an opportunity for you to discuss e-safety in your school and through the 360 Self Review Tool, identify your current position and develop an action plan.  You will register for the tool and have help during the session with completing it and auditing your current practice.

16th November 2011 – 13:00 – 16:00 – Booking Code ITB61003
30th January 2012 – 16:00 – 18:00 – Booking Code ITB61001

Preparing e-safety sessions for parents
This session will support you to develop an understanding of the e-safety issues affecting young people and adults at home.  You will be able to take a way a number of resources which you can then use to help you plan and deliver your own sessions for parents.

16th November 2011 – 16:00 – 18:00 – Booking Code ITB62001
30th January 2012 – 13:00 – 15:30 – Booking Code ITB2002

To book on any of these courses, please telephone 01785 277932 or email qls@staffordshire.gov.uk