The City Today - May 2011

We hope you've returned refreshed and ready for the new term. At EducationCity.com we have a spring in our step - with all the new projects we're working on we can hardly contain our excitement! In particular, our brand new Learn English module that we're launching free to all subscribers from 9th May - 30th June!

COMMUNITY

Learning about natural disasters

We have created a brand new bank of lesson plans, fact sheets and a gallery on Japan and natural disasters - all free to download now!

Learn English - Launches on May 10th!

Does your school have English Language Learners? If so, we think our brand new module, Learn English, will be perfect for use in your classroom - join our webinar for a guided tour.

City News - Spring Edition

The latest City News will be landing on your doortep shortly. For those of you who can't wait, we've made it available for a sneak peak!

Product Update - Subject Select Screen

Have you noticed our new Subject Select Screen? We think it gives a clean, easy to navigate interface without losing the signature EducationCity.com look.

ThinkIts - New Module Coming Soon!
Punchy, fun and thought provoking, ThinkIts answer your call for a cross-curricular tool to get pupils thinking on their feet fast.
 

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.

TeachMeet Midlands: 20th May
Sign up now! 

WHAT'S NEW?

Literacy

River Deep - Learn Screen (Year 6 / P6/ Second**)
Place full stops, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, brackets, quotation marks, question marks and exclamation marks within a passage with prompts to help.

Mouse in the House - Learn Screen (Letters and Sounds)
ou - reading new graphemes.

Star Clown - Learn Screen (Letters and Sounds)CCV (C) words using 3 graphemes.

Vowels Sing-Along (F2/ Reception/ P2/ Early**)
Sing-along to this modern alphabet that highlights
the vowels... "five of these letters are special pals, each of these letters are known as a vowel"...

Maths

Bar-B Shapes - Learn Screen (Yr 6/ Second**/ P7)
Calculate the missing angle in the triangle.

Smooth Shoppers (Yr 1/ Yr 2/ Early** & P3)
Find the total change given from 20p.

MFL

Entrevista Animales
Rosa, our Spanish character, interviews our four resident Spanish children about their favourite animals and their real pets.

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