Monday 2nd November – Staff INSET – ICT

These are some of the resources you will find on the LGFL
site (our homepage in school) which can be very useful in
class. You can access them via the content grid or by subject
in the curriculum subjects drop down menu. Please spend
some time having a look at them to consider which resources
you could incorporate into your teaching. Enjoy!

Laura Mason – ICT Staff INSET - Monday 2nd November

The weather monitoring system established by London Grid for Learning collects
real-time data from more than fifty sites around the UK, allowing conditions around the country to be
displayed and compared in a number of ways. Additionally, a complete archive of data can be queried
to demonstrate the variation of parameters over hours, days, weeks, months and even years!

podcasts provide a simple method for publishing audio and video in situations where
new content is added on a regular basis, such as school newsletters and extra-curricular courses. The
LGfL Podcast Service makes it easy for anyone to create podcasts - no coding skills required!

An online multimedia word processor which creates and stores

your work online - in schools, at home on any machine you like.

Learn to Play Guitar, Bass, Keyboard and Drums. It’s easy with our
Lessons and Software!

Gigajam Junior - Interactive Drum School

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Award winning production music library & Hollywood sound effects

archive for the media professional. Includes copyright free music for you to use in podcasts.

Virtual Experiments is a whole-class, interactive teaching tool

that contains simulations of key QCA Scheme of Work experiments. For Years 1 and 2.

Virtual Experiments is a whole-class, interactive teaching tool

that contains simulations of key QCA Scheme of Work experiments. For Years 3 and 4.

Virtual Experiments is a whole-class, interactive teaching tool

that contains simulations of key QCA Scheme of Work experiments. For Years 5 and 6.

2Simple and London Grid for Learning

are pleased to announce the launch of 5 Talking Stories. All 5 stories are engaging, creative and cross
curricular, bringing in aspects of English, Science, ICT, Geography & History.

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An up-to-date practical guide to the law in England and

Wales, covering many aspects of everyday law and how it affects your life.

Books and stories are familiar starting points for

cross-curricular work, allowing children to make connections in their learning and to put their learning in
a relevant context. "P.B.Bear's Interactive Adventures" uses video in the same way. Each story is
surrounded by activities linked to early learning goals and to literacy or numeracy objectives.

Learning adventures online for nursery and primary schools.

2Create allows children in KS1 & KS2 to plan and

produce their own multimedia projects, interactive books, talking stories, presentations, slide shows,
websites and much more!

This tool allows the teacher or pupil to create 2-D geometric

objects such as quadrilaterals, circles, triangles, lines, arcs, ray segments and vectors on a co-ordinate
grid of a specified scale. Co-ordinate graphs can also be easily created on a specified set of axes by a
mouse click or a tap on an interactive whiteboard.

This toolkit includes modules related

to 2-D Shapes, Coordinates and Graphing, Charting, and Numberlines.

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I-board by Electronic Blackboard. Contains interactive teaching

resources organized into 3 levels of difficulty (purple, red and green)

Computer-based resources for the Primary Maths Framework (FS2

and KS1). You choose your year group, maths strand you are focusing on and then your objective.
You will be given a selection of interactive activities. By clicking on them once you get a preview screen
for you to find out more information about the activity

This new portal integrates the old i-board club materials with the newer i-board
maths materials. Good for KS1 – has some good activities for Early years which link to the early
learning goals

i-learn: speaking and listening offers explicit and systematic

teaching of the speaking and listening strands of the Primary Framework for literacy for Years 1 to 6.

An Excellent resource for KS2 maths lessons. You search by

year group, strand and objective and are then presented with interactive activities for starters and main
activities as well as differentiated worksheets. You can also access maths plans which can be
downloaded for your year group in PDF format.

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dida-delivered - managing your project.

Espresso for Primary is a massive library of cross-curricular

digital resources for use in the classroom at Foundation, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Also
accessible through our school network which is faster and more reliable than accessing through the
web.

These materials cover the basic tenets, cultural traditions and religious
observance of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism. Very useful resource for
videos showing different faiths etc.

An exciting world of fun interactive learning, for children aged 3 to 11 years,

the Big Bus provides the very best in engaging, interactive and multi-active learning activities.

Learnpremium's content is written by teachers as an e-learning

resource that follows current government educational strategies. It provides variety, inspiration, and
new ways of teaching topics for varying learning styles.

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Sunflower Learning provides on-line multimedia modules to help teaching

and learning science.

additional Talking Stories from 2Simple providing Key Stage 2 resources.

Celebrating Us is an extensive online module containing 32 interactive student

activities with a host of background information focused on Key Stages 2 & 3 Citizenship and PSHE.

Raps, like rhymes and songs with a regular beat or pattern, tend to stick
in the mind and so are an excellent way of lodging facts in our memories. These maths raps can be
used to help children remember those tricky facts and definitions they meet in the maths classroom

Espresso videos are used as a starting point to encourage children to: retell and
recall stories; order events; predict events and to tell imagined stories.

Another five Talking Stories from 2Simple.

Rigolo 1 VLE Content Pack by Nelson Thornes.

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Picture Book Maker

Picture Book Maker allows children to create their very own picture book using a fun, interactive online
activity. The Picture Book Maker activity can be used at home or in the classroom; it is accessible for
children of all ages and can be used to help children with creative writing.

Super Action Comic Maker

Choose your action, tell your story, publish your own online comic. Helpful
to support teaching dialogue between characters in literacy.