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Professionals online safety helpline

The Safer Internet Centre has been funded by the European Commission to provide a Helpline for professionals who work with children and young people in the UK, specifically tackling the area of e-safety. The Helpline provides support with all aspects of digital … Continue reading

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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

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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

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‘BYOD’ – Bring your own device!

There is a lot of talk at the moment about the ‘BYOD’ agenda in business and education and the continual blurring of work and personal life and networks. The vast majority of mobile devices are designed specifically for personal use and many … Continue reading

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Smart Notebook Windows 7 issues

It has recently come to our attention that some of you are having trouble connecting your Windows 7 machine (laptop or PC) to older series 500 Smartboards. We recently contacted Steljes with this query and they kindly sent us the … Continue reading

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8th Annual Film & Animation Competition 2012

It is that time of year again when I have to dig the tuxedo out of the wardrobe and work out how many pounds I need to lose so that I can wear it in July at the Annual Film and … Continue reading

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RMC – The Winners!

Mark Chambers presents the winners with their certificates and iPad 2. Wow, what a competition! The children were fantastic, having to work so intensely all morning was very demanding and I can imagine there maybe a few tired children back … Continue reading

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RMC continues at a pace

The tasting aspect of the Challenge is now complete and the judges are now analysing the answers, obviously as judges we too have to very carefully check the chocolate to see if the results are accurate. Several of the groups … Continue reading

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Real maths Challenge F2F update 2

RMC F2F challenge part two has brought a smile to many faces in the room as the children now have to decide which egg tastes the best. I can see a few of the teachers eyes light up as well … Continue reading

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Real maths Challenge F2F update

The first part of the challenge is complete and the children are now taking a break as the judges begin the difficult process of scoring the children’s work. Some very interesting conclusions and methods used to work out which egg … Continue reading

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