The Early Surfers' Zone is now live within the "I work with Kids" section of Childnet International's Kidsmart website.
Internet safety presentations for Nursery, Reception and KS1 aged children
The Early Surfers’ Zone is designed for the parents and carers and educators of 3-7 year olds, to help introduce young children to the idea of internet safety, in an age-appropriate, fun and engaging way. The site introduces the character of Smartie the Penguin, who learns to be safe online, by asking his family for help whenever anything happens to make him feel upset, confused or worried.
The resources include a new printable E-book, accompanying questions for discussion (for parents / carers / school staff who are reading the story), a lesson plan with relevant curriculum l...
A head teacher from a primary school in one of the Northern Grid partner LAs recently asked about teaching Control Technology and what equipment was needed. Susie Arnott, who has worked with Northern Grid regularly over the last few years, has produced this helpful guide.
Esafety Ideas For Teaching Esafety to Primary School Learners
A local primary school contacted Northern Grid and asked for a session on resources for teaching esafety to their pupils, and it was agreed that I would deliver a session during their weekly staff meeting.
This is an interesting area for staff development and on one level is a fairly basic task in identifying (often online) activities for children to try. There are many useful and accessible online activities available on websites across the world and for local examples we need look no further than and www.childnet.com and CEOP's
Northern Grid has been working with Northumbria Police to develop teacher resources within a web resource that contains a wealth of crime prevention information and personal safety advice aimed at youngsters. Issues such as alcohol, awareness, drug misuse and bullying are all featured on the site, with information on where to get help and what is and isn't legal.
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Young people, parents and teachers can now get information about Northumbria Police at the touch of a button after the launch of a new youth website.
Called ebeat, it's been designed with help from school pupils and teachers and features...
The Museum of London offers sessions for Primary, Secondary and SEN groups. Each session allows pupils to interact with characters or educators from the Museum and investigate objects from the museum collections via a television screen or interactive whiteboard.
The museum covers a range of different topics, including a new session on the Olympics for KS2 in 2012.
Details of the full range of videoconference sessions are available here.
Parliament's Education Service works with schools and Members of both houses of parliament to support pupils to develop their understanding of Parliament and democracy.
They provide free online resources to support citizenship for teachers and pupils from 5 to 18 years old. These include games, videos, whiteboard resources and lesson plans.
They also provide school visits, an outreach programme and printed resources.
Get Involved and promote good practice in this region.
Childnet’s Film Challenge was launched last year and received some great entries from young people. Childnet are hoping to build on last year’s success and see another batch of fantastic 60 second films promoting the positive uses of the internet (previous winners can be seen on at http://www.childnet.com/film/).
Positive and inspiring use of the internet is at the heart of Film Challenge 2011 and we at Northern Grid know from our visits to schools and entries to our awards that there are many great examples of this going on in the region.
Childnet is inviting all schools and youth organisations in the UK to enter the challenge. Two separate projects are in place for primary and sec...
On March 27th 2011 the great census was taken and schools connected to the National Education Network are invited to join a project where they can compare the present with the census of 1911, undertaking their own research with online support and guidance. This is a great opportunity for schools to take advantage of broadband provision and join in this census based research project, that encourages schools to look not just at the census for 1911 but at their own communities in 2011. Free access for schools to the ...
Northern Grid has been working with Rising Stars an educational publishing specialist and they have offered to give some schools in our region some of their resources free of charge. All you have to do in return is provide some feedback.
Shaping Learner Landscapes is a project set up by North Tyneside School Improvement Service to allow schools to explore enquiry based learning over an extended period of time supported by ICT.
This case study looks at one particular Shaping Learner Landscapes project with Norham Community Technology College’s Y7 history students.
Hypotheses explored included:
Enquiry based learning, supported by ICT over an extended period of time improves learner skills dramatically!
Free, easy to access 24/7 ICT tools aid understanding, creativity, communication and
engagement.
Student understanding and skills are deepened by utilising extended periods of time.
The students worked in groups of four to explore whether e...
This is the latest in the very popular Young Science Investigatorsseries (see the other resources in the series here:www.bp.com/bpes/ysi) of free teachingresources for 7-11 year olds/KS2
YSI: Cool Creations is an online set ofmaterials to teach Science through exciting Design and Technologyprojects such as Paper Spinners and Electric Helicopters. The...
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The Museum of London offers sessions for Primary, Secondary and SEN groups. Each session allows pupils to interact with characters or educators from the Museum and investigate objects from the museum collections via a television screen or interactive whiteboard.
Parliament's Education Service works with schools and Members of both houses of parliament to support pupils to develop their understanding of Parliament and democracy.
Oddizzi is a new, primary school focused, multimedia website. We wanted to find out more so we asked the creators to tell us a bit more about it.
Northern Grid has been working with Rising Stars an educational publishing specialist and they have offered to give some schools in our region some of their resources free of charge. All you have to do in return is provide some feedback.
Shaping Learner Landscapes is a project set up by North Tyneside School Improvement Service to allow schools to explore enquiry based learning over an extended period of time supported by ICT.
