BwD E Learning Service

There are 4 Pathe News clips which may be of interest to anyone basing work on the World Cup:

World Cup – Ramsey’s Men See How They Won;
Various shots from the football World Cup Final;
World Cup Stamps A Sell Out;
Review of the year 1966.

Since the change to BwD schools’ Internet server at the start of [...]

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Many of you will already be aware that teams of children from Ashleigh Primary, Hawthorns Junior, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Primary & Shadsworth Junior Schools have won places in the finals of Destination Imagination®, taking place this week in Tennessee.
Over 200,000 students in over 40 countries and most of the [...]

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Friends of the Earth have designed a series of lesson plans, offering stimulating ideas for bringing major environmental issues to life within the classroom. With curriculum links into geography, citizenship, ICT and English these new resources are ideal to provide extra support for teachers.
They are designed for 6-10 yr olds, and are based [...]

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A number of local schools are intending to use the World Cup as a stimulus for cross-curricular work. We have collected together some resources which they might find useful. Follow: resources > WorldCup2006.
A much larger collection of resources, including a very useful PowerPoint presentation, has been produced by NAACE: http://www.mape.org.uk/WorldCup2006/index.htm.
If any [...]

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No – we’re not 20 years behind! It is 20 years since the publication of the BBC project which involved 1000s of schoolchildren in a survey of Britain (as part of the 900th anniverary of the original Domesday Book). The original photographs and text typed in by children are available on line [...]

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The GIS zone is part of Ordnace Survey’s educational site, Mapzone. This particular area defines GIS, using visuals and animations to help. It covers the reasons why so much in modern life depends on the use of GIS; the benefits of using it and some of the key components that make up [...]

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Recent months have seen a wealth of material to help with this issue. This latest offering from BT is a .pdf file with advice and help for adults, links to helpful websites, a jargon buster of ICT terminology and worksheets to use with students.
http://www.broadbandsecurity.bt.com/img/teacherparentguide.pdf

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The free software is Photo Story 3 from Microsoft, the ideas for use come from a BT website: http://www.bteducation.org/resources/view.ikml?id=184&mailid=20060428-165 The BT website tells you how and where to obtain the software, and has ideas for use in a variety of curriculum areas. Basically PhotoStory allows you to create a movie from a series of [...]

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For those who use the River Darwen when studying rivers, we have added a set of shots of the river to the Blackburn with Darwen photographs (resources section of site). The intention is that we will eventually follow the river to its confluence with the Ribble.
http://www.elearningbwd.net/Resource_tree/rootFolder/Blackburn_with_Darwen_Photographs/RiverDarwen/index.htm
If any BwD school would [...]

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Although there is no “official” Local Authority transition project this year, many Year 6 teachers have said that they intend to re-use materials from last year.
The reference materials are still available from this website, and we can supply copies of the CD ROM for anone who has misplaced it. If anyone intends to produce [...]

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