Archived Press Releases 2005November 2005TEACHERS HAVE THEIR SAY IN THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF ONLINE LEARNING 4 November 2005 - With Personalising Learning high on the agenda for schools, Granada Learning and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) are working in partnership to find out teachers’ views on the subject. Today, Granada Learning and the SSAT will launch the National Survey of Personalising Learning - an online questionnaire that is designed to take a national picture of personalising learning, and to identify schools’ visions and aspirations for the future.
LECKIE & LECKIE UNVEILS NEW SQA PC PASSPORT SERIES The first of three new learning resources for the Scottish Qualifications Authority’s practical qualification, PC Passport, will be launched at SETT 2005. Published by Leckie & Leckie, Scotland’s leading educational publisher, the new PC Passport Course Notes and CD-ROM series is designed to help secondary students and employees improve their computer skills and prepare for the PC Passport examination. PC Passport is a Scottish Progression Award and receives full, appropriate credit through the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework. As such, it is recognised by employers, training providers and admissions staff.
NEW BLACKCAT PROGRAM TURNS TEACHERS INTO PROFESSIONAL ICT DESIGNERS Primary tools publisher, BlackCat, will today launch a new CD-ROM designed to help teachers create interactive whiteboard activities that look as professional as any pre-packaged content. Literacy Activity Builder enables teachers to create a range of Foundation Stage to Key Stage 2 Literacy activities (such as gap fill, multiple-choice, matching games and sorting) using a set of template-based tools. The program then automatically generates professional content, saving hours of preparation time and allowing teachers to meet their own class’ specific learning needs.
A FRESH APPROACH TO REVISION FOR 7 - 14 YEAR OLDS Letts Educational, the market leading publisher of home study materials, has introduced a new range of books for 7 to 14 year olds that offer a refreshingly fun approach to revising. In The World Of … series, the learner is not just presented with important facts and ideas that need to be remembered, but is encouraged to discover these facts for themselves in the context of real life scenarios.
schoolcentre.net, an online portal designed by The Skills Factory to aid school improvement planning and effective self-evaluation, has added the new Ofsted Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) to its range of school management tools. Teachers can now cross-reference their SEF with their school development plan, action plan and improvement plan. Importantly, they can attach evidence, such as assessments, photographs and video files to support statements made in the SEF and as part of their action plans. Teachers can also insert actions against each SEF question, creating a direct and secure link between the SEF and their school improvement plan.
NORTH LIVERPOOL ACADEMY GIVEN THE GO AHEAD Plans for the North Liverpool Academy have been given final approval by the Secretary of State for Education, Ruth Kelly. The Academy will now move into the final phase of its development.
VICE PRINCIPAL JOINS NORTH LIVERPOOL ACADEMY The North Liverpool Academy has appointed John Rigby as its Vice Principal. Mr Rigby joins Kay Askew, the new Principal, in preparing for the Academy’s opening in September 2006. The Academy will be one of the largest in the UK with 1,750 pupils from the combined Anfield and Breckfield Comprehensives. It is set to bring about a significant improvement in secondary education in the area and will also benefit the local community through new educational and sporting facilities, as well as adult learning programmes.
NORTH LIVERPOOL ACADEMY APPOINTS PRINCIPAL The North Liverpool Academy has appointed Kay Askew as Principal, in preparation for the Academy’s opening in September 2006. The Academy will be one of the largest in the UK with 1,750 pupils from the combined Anfield and Breckfield Comprehensives. It is set to bring about a significant improvement in secondary education facilities and will also play a key part in the regeneration of the local community.
LETTS EDUCATIONAL LAUNCHES TV ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN IN RUN-UP TO GCSE AND A LEVEL EXAMS Letts Educational, the UK’s leading publisher of examination study and revision guides, has this week launched a nationwide TV advertising campaign for its range of GCSE and A Level Study Guides, and its “test your revision” website, lettsrevise.com.
NEW ONLINE TOOL IMPROVES SUCCESS RATE OF CHANGE PROGRAMMES With almost 70% of change programmes ending in failure, leading psychometric test publisher, ASE, has developed an efficient online solution called Cymbion to help organisations achieve successful business transformation following a change process. Cymbion has been designed to provide a single performance framework on which to analyse an entire organisation. The tool is an extremely cost-effective way of defining jobs, skills and development requirements for all levels of management and administrative roles, and it can help organisations develop a competency framework for use in a wide range of integrated human resource processes.
DAVID FULTON PUBLISHERS WINS ERA 2005 SPECIAL NEEDS AWARD The Education Resources Award 2005 for Special Educational Needs has been awarded to an innovative series of subject-specific books that provide secondary teachers with practical guidance on teaching pupils with SEN. Published by David Fulton Publishers, Meeting SEN in the Curriculum consists of 13 books, each dedicated to a specific secondary subject from English to PE. With greater inclusion, mainstream teachers are now directly involved in the education of more pupils with all kinds of SEN and the series offers effective strategies that teachers can incorporate into their lessons immediately to ensure that all pupils get full access to the curriculum. Interactive Storytelling from Speechmark Publishing was the joint winner of the award.
LETTS LAUNCHES KEY STAGE 3 ONLINE ICT COURSE BETT 2005 (Granada Learning stand, E40 / F40) - Letts Educational, the UK's market leader in study and revision guides, is launching a new online course that contains everything teachers need to deliver Key Stage 3 (KS3) ICT. Covering all three years of the National Curriculum KS3 ICT scheme of work and modelled on the Framework for Teaching ICT, the Success for Schools Interactive: KS3 ICT course is intended for use from the front of the classroom via an interactive whiteboard or data projector, as well as by students on their school computers. The course can be used on its own, as part of schemes of work, or in conjunction with the Letts Success for Schools: KS3 ICT print resources.
SEMERC LAUNCHES SECOND IN SERIES OF POPULAR VOCALISATION TOOLS FOR EARLY YEARS AND SEN PUPILS BETT 2005 (Granada Learning, stand E40 / F40) – Special needs software publisher SEMERC is launching the second in its series of highly interactive and motivational resources designed to develop communication and vocalisation skills in special needs, Foundation and Lower Key Stage 1 pupils. Building on the features of the original program, Sound Beginnings 2 encourages pupils to confidently develop an awareness of some of the dimensions of speech such as volume and breath control. The program also concentrates on text-free screens that respond to specific vocabulary such as numbers, colours and positional words. A simple microphone is all that is needed; voice input training or complicated configurations are not required.
FIRST DIGITAL ASSESSMENT TO IDENTIFY SENSORY NEEDS ACROSS ALL AGES BETT 2005 (Granada Learning, stand E40 / F40) – The Sensory Assessment and Profiling Tool, a new digital assessment to be unveiled at BETT 2005, is the most comprehensive profiling CD-ROM for sight, sound, movement, smell, taste and touch ever published. Jointly developed by SEMERC and ROMPA with the backing of the School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Southampton, it is an assessment tool that identifies areas of sensory need in individuals of all ages. Responding to the Government Strategy for Special Educational Needs, ‘Removing Barriers to Achievement', it can be used with children in mainstream settings as well as children and adults with multiple learning disabilities or mental health problems.
BLACKCAT LAUNCHES NEW TOOLBOX TO INTRODUCE EARLY YEARS TO ICT BETT 2005 (Granada Learning, stand E40 / F40) – BlackCat is launching the second in its BETT Award-winning series of introductory ICT toolkits for Foundation Stage to Lower Key Stage 2 pupils (Levels A – B of the Scottish curriculum). Building on the success of the original program, Numbers, Words and Pictures 2 has been designed to give a bright and integrated introduction to ICT in the early years. It focuses on key ICT skills – data handling, graphs, art and turtle graphics – and can be run from a simple menu and set to the needs of individual pupils.
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