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Archive for the ‘History’ Category

Myths and Legends Website

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Mythsandlegends.com is a great website for children who are interested in hearing tales from the past. You can also make your own stories with the Story Creator.

Posted in Curriculum, History, Literacy, Year 4 | No Comments »

Book Club

The Book Club is updated each term to introduce three authors talking about a book that they have written. Alongside the video clips is a biography of each author. This term the following authors talk about their books:

Chris d’Lacey introduces Icefire
Cliff McNish introduces The Silver Child
Jacqueline Wilson introduces The Diamond Girls

Find it: English 1 > Book Club

TV News

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Food packaging campaign

The Women’s Institute are campaigning to reduce food packaging.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Taking action

Millennium Bridge sound art

A live feed of the sound of the Millennium Bridge is being piped into the Tate Modern Gallery.

Find it: Art > Galleries > Tate Gallery

News Bites

A news round-up of events in the form of four short video clips. The video clips are reporter-led pieces using language aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils.

Queen’s children’s party
Mummies help doctors
Model insects on display
Michelangelo exhibition

Find it: English 2 > News Bites

Newspaper articles this week include..

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Chalk drawing helps wildlife

The National Trust yesterday began the first wildlife survey of the Cerne Abbas Giant - a 180ft chalk figure of a man carved into the hillside near the Dorset village.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Wildlife

New emblem for Red Cross

The Red Cross are changing their emblem into an internationally recognised humanitarian emblem.

Find it: PSHE & Citizenship > Politics > World Politics

World Cup 2006 data [Data]

Data handling exercises using recent results from the group stages of the World Cup.

Find it: PE > Football > World Cup and Maths > Handling data > Data

Charles Darwin [Profile]

A profile of Charles Darwin that explores important events in his life.

Find it: History > People in history > More

Posted in Art, Curriculum, Espresso Updates, Geography, History, Literacy, P.E., P.S.H.C.E., School | No Comments »

Bizzikid

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Bizzikid is a great site for children. It has lots of interesting pages collected together, with info about PSHCE, sport and almost all of the school subjects.