City Today - February 2011

Welcome to February’s edition of The City Today - our monthly news bulletin - bringing you all the latest from EducationCity.com! We are particularity excited about National Science & Engineering Week in March and have lots of fantastic activities, experiments and lesson ideas planned!

COMMUNITY

Free resources in celebration of National Science and Engineering Week 2011!

Did you know that it’s National Science & Engineering Week (NSEW) soon? To celebrate, we have lots of fun filled ideas and resources to keep the young scientists tuned into science planned around the NSEW theme ‘Communication’. 

Blog takeover! Week 1 - A spy in camp :)

Blog takeover! We have a resident student teacher working with us. For the next four Fridays Emma will be sharing reflective thoughts from her time at EducationCity.com, so without further ado, we pass the baton...

Oakham primary school visit EducationCity.com on a journalistic outing

Last week we had a very exciting day indeed when pupils from local school, Brooke Hill Primary, paid us a visit to find out more about how their favourite resource is created. The budding journalists made quite an impression; find out what happened…

Award alert - your favourite educational resource receives triple ERA nomination!

A show stopping month for awards, with three nominations for ERA! Including: The best Early Years Resource involving ICT, Education Exporter of the Year and Supplier of the Year (over 3 million annual turnover) categories – well done team!

Congratulations... Literacy competition winners announced!

On behalf of all the staff here at EducationCity.com we would like to offer our congratulations to Rhys and George from St Edmond’s Catholic School in Whitton for winning our literacy competition. Please take a few minutes to read this fantastic entry and take a look at the fab book cover designed as a prize!

Staying Safe Online - Printable resources for the classroom

As an online company, EducationCity.com is committed to raising awareness of online safety to children, parents and teachers.  For Safer Internet Day we produced some handy printable guides and fact sheets, download them here!

EVENTS and TRAINING:

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WHAT'S NEW?

Challenge a friend on PlayLive

After lots of requests from teachers and pupils across the UK we’ve updated PlayLive so that players are now to able to compete with class mates and pupils from their school.

Very useful ideas for your maths lessons

James, our Maths Producer, has been busy writing new guides filled with suggestions and activities to use Topic Tools with your class. With step-by-step instructions they give you an easy reference to quickly get started.

Science Tests for Year 5 now LIVE!

Hot on the heels of the massively popular Science Tests for Year 6 and acting on feedback from you, the teacher, we have broadened our offering of tests.

Literacy

Revenge of the Comma - Year 4

Understand and use commas. The grammar goblin is adding and removing commas to disrupt the group’s communication, help the group fix the messages using your knowledge of commas.

Maths

Party Planner  - Year 6

It’s prom time at school and Klara’s planning the party! Help Klara budget for the event with a calculator and work out multi-step problems with a handy notepad.

Water World - Year 6

Sten is visiting the swimming pool to try out the new water slide. Simplify fractions with Klara, Manu, Stig and Sten at the pool to help Sten get to the slide!

Dungeon Run - Year 3

Sten and the gang are playing hide and seek at Granny’s. Help Sten explore the house and find his friends by answering questions on addition correctly. Once you have explored all the rooms, the activity ends with a quick fire maths game – answer the questions correctly to reveal a famous mathematician.

Science

Science Tests - Year 5

The tests are short and manageable, designed to fit perfectly within the tight timeframe of a lesson, featuring engaging graphics and in some cases real life photos. Six Unit Tests and a Full Test.

World Dress Up – Asia for F2

Klara uses her “extra-special, super-duper, fabulous world map” to show her friends some of the wonderful places she has visited. Today she’d like to show traditional dress from Asia. You can dress, print and colour in a doll in traditional clothing from India, China, Japan and Vietnam. 

MFL

Mon Passeport – French Year 3

Create your very own French Passport. With real life video clips and great interactivity, get pupils can to create their very own French Passport. There’s a great map of France too that familiarises pupils with the country and it’s culture, mmm… fromage!

Chantons l'alphabet Tool - French Year 3, 5 & 7

Sing the alphabet in French.

Welcher Buchstabe ist das? - German Years 3 & 5

Learn the letters of the alphabet in German. 

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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