Foundation Stage Resources
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FlashMeeting is an application based on the Adobe Flash 'plug in' and Flash Media Server. Running in a standard web browser window, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Typically a meeting is pre-booked by a registered user and a url, containing a unique password for the meeting, is returned by the FlashMeeting server. The 'booker' passes this on to the people they wish to participate, who simply click on the link to enter into the meeting at the arranged time.
During the meeting one person speaks (i.e. broadcasts) at a time. Other people can simultaneously contribute using text chat, the whiteboard, or emoticons etc. while waiting for their turn to speak. This way the meeting is ordered, controlled and easy to follow. A replay of the meeting is instantly available, to those with the 'unique' replay url.
FlashMeeting users belong to one of three account types; Guest, Sign In and Booker.
These illustrations and photographs are free for any kind of educational use - whether you are a teacher creating topic worksheets or looking for ideas to spark creative writing, or a pupil who needs illustrations for a presentation or website.
You can download them, print them off or use them online.
A mixture of drawings, photos and images of the world around us. The collection includes pictures of seasons, landscapes and natural habitats. Other images concentrate on man-made environments including buildings and famous landmarks.
Animals are always a winner! We have images (including some photos) of wild animals and birds from Britain and abroad, pets, farm animals, dinosaurs, prehistoric creatures and minibeasts.
A wide variety of images of people, from illustrations of babies, children's faces showing different emotions and people working in a variety of jobs, to anatomical drawings of the human body and fine art portraits.
Many coloured and black and white illustrations of people in the past - Egyptians, Celts, Picts, Vikings, Greeks, Romans and medieval Scots as well as scenes from the two World Wars. Also have a look at the visual primary sources, such as 19th-century photos, medieval manuscripts, and portraits since 1780.
Great images of Scottish fine art from the Royal Scottish Academy and illustrations of musical instruments are available to download here, as well as information on how to use pictures and text from a beautiful medieval manuscript.
Activities and items for leisure - from musical instruments to cultural events, children interacting, photos of foreign holidays and paintings of holiday-makers in earlier times.
The prehistoric world
Scenes, people and animals from the prehistoric world including crannogs, standing stones, woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed cats.
Illustrations, photos and paintings of food and drink - some healthy and some not so healthy! Plus photos of restaurants and pictures of birthday cakes.
Resources for helping pupils to develop language and number skills, including modern foreign languages. The images include colourful pictures of numbers, safety signs, notices for the classroom and photos from continental Europe which feature signs and notices in French and German.
Coloured and black and white illustrations of clothes, including children's shoes, different outfits for different types of weather and working clothes and uniforms such as those worn by police officers and firefighters.
Photos and drawings of different types of transport, from around the world. Fancy taking the camel to school?
Ensure the digital natives are up to speed with today's technology from video cameras to tablet PCs, with these coloured and outline illustrations of gadgets and equipment.
Helping young people to become successful learners is one of the key aims of Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland.
Our knowledge about learning is continually changing in the light of research and there is still much that we do not know. This site provides an overview of current thinking on how people learn.
This website contains a captivating collection of activities for children aged 5-8 years. The site is based on popular children's stories by authors Scoular Anderson, Debi Gliori, Mairi Hedderwick and Frank Rodgers.
The NEN weather stations site, with live and archived online data from weather stations across the country
A drag and drop literacy activity. This resource is for KS1 children with severe learning difficulties.
A set of matching activities in the form of an interactive game of “Snap” where pupils are required to match: lower case letters, upper case letters, lower and upper case letters, high frequency words.
This resource can also be accessed by switch users via a switch interface which emulates the enter key.
A set of matching activities in the form of an interactive game of “Snap” where pupils are required to match: pictures, shapes and colours.
This resource can also be accessed by switch users via a switch interface which emulates the enter key. Suitable for older pupils with SEN.
Town trail is an online village with different places for the children to visit and explore, with activities aligned with early learning goals.
A suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers.
Sa cheacht seo ar chlár bán déantar fiosrú ar na fuaimeanna a dhéanann cnaguirlisí éagsúla. Tugtar deis do pháistí éisteacht leis na fuaimeanna éagsúla, iad a aithint agus a ainmniú agus canadh leo. Baintear úsáid as scéal Na Trí Mhuc Bheaga chun páistí a spreagadh chun fuaimscéal dá gcuid féin a chumadh agus a chur i láthair. Is féidir an ceacht a úsáid ag an Bhonnchéim do theagasc ranga uile nó grúpaí beaga.
Downloadable resources to support work in the Foundation Stage including worksheets, activities, photographs and videos. Includes ICT scheme of work for foundation stage.
Indexed resources, help and advice for pupils, parents and carers, governors, schools and local authorities covering a wide range of esafety issues.
This is a colourful interactive resource containing curriculum-linked activities for children in Reception and Year 1 classes .
Pupils from a school in Redcar and Cleveland know all about the opportunities the Internet provides. They also know about the risks.
The pupils, aged from 6-8 years old, worked with their class teacher and Creative Partnerships to produce this powerful message about how to stay safe online.
Please note that this video can only be viewed from a connection on the National Education Network
Homerton Children’s Centre has long had a national reputation for its work on using appropriate technologies in Early Childhood Education. This website is a result of work and training undertaken at Homerton.
Use the Planning area of this website to find out how you can plan for ICT so that it underpins each principle of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
Also look at how the principles of the EYFS can inform our practice in developing uses of technology in the Early Years.
This website has arisen out of a learning network project that involved six Cambridgeshire Nursery Schools and Children’s Centres in building on good practice in children’s mathematical development. In particular we looked at the area of mark making for mathematical purposes and as a process towards informal forms of written calculations across the Early Years Foundation Stage.
A collection of high quality images, sound and video files that can be repurposed by teachers and students. All materials can be used for educational, not for profit activities.
Registered users can also upload images, sound and video files to the Gallery for use by other members of the educational community.
The Audio Network Education Licence has been developed to provide Schools with world-class music recordings over the National Education Network and the UK's national education broadband networks. It is hosted at London Grid for Learning and delivered to schools throughout the UK over the NEN.
Schools have FREE access to the same high-quality music resource that is used by professional film, television and media producers. Just right for ICT and digital video projects across the curriculum. Works for Primary, Secondary and FE. Ideal for vocational courses and developing a sense of the world of work.
The service enables the FREE download of Audio Network music files for use in school and college projects including ‘synchronisation’ use in audio-visual productions together with general guidance on music copyright.
Summary of benefits 
Ease of use: digital and on-line over the education broadband networks. Standard file type.
Free: school and connected college users do not have to pay.
Choice: huge range of types of music.
Quality: industry quality recordings.
Clean: no viruses...non pop-up advertising.
Legal: all rights cleared for education use in school/college.
Creative Licence: resources can be used creatively.
Restrictions: can’t be distributed or performed outside school/college or on the WWW without additional licences...but...
Additional licences: provide a one-step process for public performance/distribution.
Curriculum relevance: meets the needs of e-learning and 'Harnessing the Technology' and supports many areas of the curriculum in Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education.
Examinations: meets requriements of examinations and the new generation of e-assessment.
World of work: uses industry procedures and supports of vocational courses.
A colourful and stimulating set of thematic resources based on the S4C television series Pentre Bach and Sali Mali.
The resource is navigated by visiting the different characters houses in the village and can be used as whole class activities or accessed by individual children.
The activities cover every aspect of learning from mathematical to creative development.
Simple yet highly effective Art and Craft techniques that non specialist teachers can feel confident at trying in the classroom.
The Art skills for teachers resource is a website that has been created by the Ben Uri Gallery to support the teaching of Art and Design. It is targeted at the non specialist. It aims to offer simple, yet highly effective, ideas and techniques that both teachers and children can feel confident at trying both at school and at home.
The ideas and techniques can be used to create artworks in response to the Ben Uri Teaching Resources produced by the London Grid for Learning: A Sense of Place, Relationships and Movement, however their application can occur across many and varied contexts in the Primary and Secondary classroom.
A video case study filmed at Richard Cobden school in Camden shows the impact of using the Ben Uri Art resources and explains how the resources can be used in a range of Key Stages.
- The resource features an image viewer that is designed to allow teachers to move an image around freely on an interactive whiteboard display
- All the resources are available for .pdf download
- All pages in the online book interface have unique web addresses so that links from other resources (such as the London MLE) can be created
Visit www.artskills.lgfl.net for more information.
NEN launches a new website for schools 'Copyright in the Digital Age'
- While we are all used to copyright as users or consumers we can often be unsure what is 'OK' for education use and what is not
- Digital technologies, in particular schools' VLE, IWB systems and websites, have brought to the foreground the 'reuse' of other people's copyright materials
- The extension of the virtual school to include the home and anywhere/anytime access through mobile devices is today as much a copyright consideration as the school location itself
- Schools are also in effect publishers and distributors of copyright materials, as schools increasingly use networks, 'cloud services' and activities such as 'podcasting'
- Copyright is an aspect of E-Safety
- And last, but far from least, 'copyright' for creators - an aspect that is highlighted by the widespread use of websites, cams and imaging devices, teacher and student produced presentations and resources and will be significant in the new ICT curriculums with their increasing focus on developing 'code'
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