Category Archives: Education General
Naace ICT Impact Awards 2013 shortlist
Bradford’s Curriculum ICT team are delighted to announce that they have been shortlisted as a finalist at the Naace ICT Impact Awards 2013. The shortlist for the awards was announced on Thursday 31 January at 2pm on the Naace stand … Continue reading
(e)safeguarding – a 360° view
Our Curriculum ICT (CICT) Team, working through the Bradford Innovation Centres, are all (e)Safety trained (many to CEOP Ambassador and 360 e-Safe Assessor level) and we support all school stakeholder groups, council teams and organisations to ensure that everyone can … Continue reading
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Tagged e-safeguarding, e-safety, E-Safety Mark, Robert Bashforth
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New CEOP / ThinkuKnow video resource
CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre) have produced many high quality resources for supporting schools with their E-safeguarding curriculum through the ThinkuKnow website and their video resources are always of a very high quality. On the 31st October they … Continue reading
Data Protection guidance from ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office)
The ICO recently released a document entitled ‘Report on the data protection guidance we gave schools in 2012’ available here. The document highlights how the ICO helped several schools earlier in 2012 to comply with data protection rules and highlights the … Continue reading
Ofsted briefing for inspectors (September 2012) – Inspecting e-safety
Ofsted recently released new documentation for use during inspections of maintained schools and academies. Click here to access the updates that have been released. One of the documents that several schools have raised concerns with us about is the Inspecting e-safety section. The document states:- … Continue reading
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Summary of Gove’s KS4 proposals
Removing controlled assessment and course from the six EBacc subjects (though “practical” subjects such as art will retain them) No teacher assessment in these subjects at all: 100% externally marked exams. No separate higher and foundation tier papers – everyone … Continue reading
ClassDojo
ClassDojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers improve behaviour in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behaviour that teachers can share with parents and administrators. Better learning behaviours, smoother lessons and hassle-free data … Continue reading
Online P.E. planning tool for Primary schools
I have always enjoyed teaching PE in primary schools and have seen first-hand the impact it can have on pupil development both physically and emotionally. I remember starting a new job at a school in Special Measures where the behaviour … Continue reading
Artsmark helps schools to nurture their students’ creativity, resilience and imagination
Artsmark is the national programme that enables primary, secondary and SEN schools, further education colleges and youth justice settings to evaluate, celebrate and strengthen a quality arts offer. From April 2012, our friends and partners at CapeUK started to operate … Continue reading
Opening Up Problems!
Top Tip from Nrich! Initially, it is easier to think of basic closed word problems than it is to devise open-problems, but luckily, a good source of open problems is actually these same basic closed problems. Moses, Bjork and Goldenberg … Continue reading
