Start the Chopwell Wood Heritage TrailThe Chopwell Wood Heritage Trail is a resource containing worksheets and interactive activities covering the areas of Art, Design & Technology, Geography, History, ICT, Literacy, Numeracy and Science.
Heritage is about history and how the past has shaped how we live today. There has been woodland where Chopwell Wood is today for thousands of years. Over all those years people have always used wood for all sorts of things from building their homes and furniture, to burning it as fuel for cooking and to keep warm. Woodcrafts developed, and many ancient woodcrafts are still practiced today. For example, coppicing is an ancient woodcraft in which young stems on trees are used to make things like fences, shelters and, brooms. Coppiced wood has also been used to make charcoal for hundreds of years. The associated craft of green woodwork has also taken place for hundreds of years, making things like spoons, bowls and chair legs. These ancient woodcrafts are part of our cultural heritage.
The types of trees found in Chopwell Wood and the uses of the timber from them, have changed over time. It wasn’t until the 20th century that conifer trees arrived in great numbers when the Forestry Commission took over management of the woodland. Chopwell Wood today is used mostly for recreation purposes, but it is also a commercial working forest supplying wood to the timber industry. Forestry is part of our industrial heritage.
Chopwell Wood also has lots of natural heritage. There is a great variety of wildlife, including birds, animals and insects and they live in habitats...
ICT planning and assessing the curriculum for students with learning difficulties
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These documents were kindly provided by Ickburgh School, Hackney.
You can find them attached to this page
These documents were kindly provided by Deborah Moppett from Ickburgh School, Hackney.
You can find them attached to this page
This material is being hosted on the Northern Grid SEN site. It has been produced by David R Wilson from Harton School, South Shields. If you find other useful links please let us know so that we can update the lists.
Inclusive Curricula: Subject Teaching and Special Educational Needs
Here is a series of links to websites featuring the teaching of National Curriculum subjects to students with special educational needs. Click on a category to view links for that subject.
Using ICT with SLD and PMLD students
The following very detailed information and recording sheets are from Ian Bean at Priory Woods school, Middlesbrough.
You can find an MS Word document version of this resource attached.
Assistive Technology
Over the last few years, the computer has developed into a valuable resource for teaching children with severe learning difficulties. Rapid advances in processing power have enabled manufacturers to provide sophisticated hardware and software solutions to the access and learning needs of disabled people. This 'Assistive Technology' was best described by Professor Stephen Hawkin, himself perhaps the most famous assistive technology user, as "A bridge to independence".
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