City Today - April 2011

This month we've got lots to show and tell; from brand new subject video trailers to great new customer service initiatives. We know April's a busy month for you too, with school breaks and bank holidays galore, not to mention the Royal Wedding for which we have a fun little competition!

COMMUNITY

Competition - Royal Wedding Colouring

Our Royal Wedding competition for the holidays - colour it in for an EducationCity.com prize. 

National Science and Engineering Week

Missed it? You can still access our bank of lesson plans, fact sheets and more.

Showcase of Science

Check out this 2 minute video - it's the perfect showcase of our Science Module.

Live Chat launched

Have your customer service questions answered in under a minute!

EVENTS and TRAINING:

You can find all of our events by visiting our events calendar.

for FREE local authority training in your area visit our forum.

WHAT'S NEW?

Mind Map Tools - Literacy and Science

The smart and easy way to brainstorm and organise ideas and concepts, helping teachers to improve students' thinking, writing and organisation skills. 

Open and Save added to more tools!

Now live in Mind Map Literacy, Mind Map Science, Sentence Builder and Teleprompter Tool.

Literacy

Wilderness Park - Year 6/ P7/ Second **Identify the common noun, proper noun, collective noun or noun phrase within a sentence.

Revenge of the commas - Year 4/ First ***

Understand and use commas

Mind Map Tool for LiteracyOrganise ideas and concepts, revise planning techniques and discuss the features of fiction and non-fiction texts.

Maths

Number Line Tool - F2 to Year 6

A brilliant tool that brings traditional paper and pen workings to the whiteboard.

Science

Mind Map Tool for Science

Organise ideas and concepts, revise planning techniques and illustrate life processes.

Remember -  you can find out and access all of these updates via What’s New in the Teacher Area of the product.

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