Bromley ICT Forum Blog

Click here to complete the electronic version of the faxback sheet accompanying the Learning Platform Guidance and Advice booklet for all Bromley Schools

Congratulations to all the staff and pupils at Charles Darwin Secondary College for achieving the ICT Mark.

Charles Darwin now joins Darrick Wood Secondary College as a recognised Bromley school for ICT excellence. Primary Schools who have achieved the ICT Mark include Valley Primary School, Clare House Primary School, Darrick Wood Junior School, Warren Road Primary School, Highfield Infant School and Alexandra Infant School.

For any other school contemplating applying for an ICT Mark assessment, the Local Authority can assist either by providing an assessor or providing support to schools in putting together a portfolio of evidence for an external assessor to consider.

For further information please contact Andrew Ferrier (Phn 0208 4616224) or email andrew.ferrier@bromley.gov.uk

London Grid for Learning would like to promote an opportunity for Primary and Secondary Schools in the new school year.

National Poetry Day Competition and Video Conference - October 9th 2008

London Grid for Learning partnering with Havering LA would like to invite you to take part in this National Competition. The theme for this years National Poetry Day is `Work`. In order to celebrate this we would like children to write poems about different jobs. We have lined up Alan Peat and Gervase Phinn to judge the finalists.

We would also like to invite you to take part in a videoconference for primary and secondary schools during National Poetry Day, on October 9th 2008, hosted from Engayne Primary School, starting at 8.50 am and ending at 3.30pm.

Opportunity: National Poetry Day

Organiser’s Profile: Mina Patel at London Grid for Learning

Visit the National Poetry Day site find out about the rules, prizes, programme details and how you can take part www.poetryday.lgfl.net

SENJIT Conference

Friday 11th July, 2008, 10-15:30

Nunn Hall, IoE 20 Bedford Way, WC1H OAL

Pupils  in mainstream and special schools are being offered exciting opportunities to learn online, whether at school, at home, or in the community. But are these opportunities open to all? This conference will explore entitlement, policy and practice for all those with special needs - including the estimated two percent with severe and complex needs. And ask what we – as a community of stakeholders – need to do to ensure real access for all?

Audience:-

Senior managers in schools leading on implementation of learning platforms

BSF teams devising output specifications

LA Advisors supporting schools developing learning platforms

Providers of systems to schools

Practitioners in the field of ICT and SEN

Cost :-

SENJIT Subscribers £30

            Non-subscribers £120

For further details and to book a place contact SENJIT

Phone Tina Catchpole on 020 7612 6305
Email t.catchpole@ioe.ac.uk

www.ioe.ac.uk/senjit

Further information:-

John Galloway (speakers and programme) john.galloway@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Imogen Westwood (exhibition and organisation)

imogen@cenmac.com

1.Vamos from Espresso

Module 1 of Espresso’s resource for KS2 Spanish, covering Greetings,In School, the Alphabet, Numbers, days of the week, Festivals and Weather.

Lost of video of native speakers, support activities along with Espresso’s commitment to high quality multimedia.

2. RM Sonica Spanish

Sonica Spanish is an innovative software product commissioned by the DfES. Sonica Spanish is designed to help teachers including modern foreign language (MFL) specialists bring Spanish language into the classroom.

LGFL is hosting 24 of its 240 activities as an online resource for school and home

12,00 high quality music files are available from the LGFL web site.

These files have been created from a cooperative of professional British composers. This is a ’paid for’ resource provided by the NEN RBC’s , saving schools up to £95 every time they download a clip for use in teachers adn pupils work.

The Audio Network Licence has been extended for another three years with lots of additional files to download. Great for podcasting

Like the real world, the online world has good and bad in it. And going online is like going out in the real world. We need to take care. London Grid’s unit on e-safety gives practical advice and activities to help you use the internet safely. Find US Online either through the LGFL Content Grid for ICT (KS2) or go directly to www.usonline.lgfl.net

Now available in the KS2 and 3 ICT menus. www.ict.lgfl.net

Tricia Neal has started an ‘ICT in the early years’ community and that her first community blog entry asks people to talk about what ICT is happening in their foundation stage classrooms.

So stop by and make a contribution, where are we now with early years ICT? Either add a comment to the original post or join the community and add your own entry.

To see what’s happening and contribute:

• Click the link below
• Log in (using the bar across the top of the page) using your normal Naace username and password
• Use the Back button on your browser to return to the ‘ICT in the early years’ community

There’s a link on the right to request community membership or scroll to the bottom of the list and add a comment.

http://communities.naace.co.uk/eyict

FREE Event at Friends House Meeting Rooms, 173 - 177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ

Want to be an expert ICT Co-ordinator at your organisation?

Did you know that Naace supplies the only course in the whole of the UK that offers an ICT Co-ordinator’s course covering vision, planning, staffing and much more, plus you can achieve 30 credit points at level 3 which could be counted towards a Masters degree. This is a one day event aimed at those who may consider providing this course as part of their Portfolio next year. During the day you will receive tuition and further details of what the course covers and how to teach the course.

Look on the Naace website for further information www.naace.co.uk/252 or to book contact Pippa on 0115 848 3326, pippa@naace.org.

“Teachers here in the UK have the job of ensuring that children grow up with an understanding of the interconnectedness of the world and the positive role that they can play in today’s global society.”    Department for International Development/DCSF Bringing the World into the Classroom 2008

 London’s Development Education Centre, the Humanities Education Centre (HEC), based in Tower Hamlets, is working with London Grid for Learning to promote the global dimension and poverty reduction agendas in our schools. It aims to support all groups and providers working in or with schools to frame what they are doing within the global dimension. HEC has been working with Tower Hamlets City Learning Centre and e-Learning Team over the past few years exploring ways of using ICT to deliver the global dimension.

It has now launched a global portal that has areas for teachers and their students to start exploring, across the curriculum issues such as water, gender, health, transport, food, trade, tourism etc, and there are webquests exploring how the DfID works, what is sustainability, how to be a UN Special Rapporteur for human rights…

Visit the Global Portal; book HEC to run a free session for your CLC or PDC or conference or professional development day; or for advice and support contact: e-mail: hec@gn.apc.org  global portal: www.global.lgfl.net

tel: 020 7364 6405                     fax: 020 7364 6422 

website: www.citizenship-pieces.org.uk

http://www.globaldimension.org.uk 

On behalf of

Michael Newman

Global Citizenship Project Worker

Humanities Education Centre and City Learning Centre

Tower Hamlets Professional Development Centre