ICT in Havering

HIAS ICT Learning Community - Sharing ideas, Innovating with ICT

Here’s how to engage more with technology and your child’s learning

This resource was recently featured at the HIAS Primary ICT Leaders’ meeting.  A sample pack is being distributed to all primary and special schools in Havering by the HIAS ICT Team - please encourage parents/carers to access these excellent materials via…

 

http://www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/Get-involved/Supporters-materials/Recommended-reading/Heres-How-Information-Packs/

includes:

  • an overview of the benefits of effective technology use within schools
  • a useful booklet giving some questions for you to ask when talking to your child’s school about technology
  • an overview of the Next Generation Learning Charter including a tear off slip to take into schools to encourage them to sign up
  • a selection of “Here’s how activity cards” so you can start using the wealth of learning resources on the internet with your child.

HIAS Primary ICT Newsletter - Summer 2009

HIAS_PrimaryICT_Newsletter_Summer_2009

Includes information on the Rose Report and how it relates to ICT, HIAS ICT Bursaries winners, video-conferencing opportunities - including Michael Rosen and National Poetry Day.  Also, how to sign-up for the Becta Self-Review Framework (SRF), which provides an excellent audit tool for your school’s current and future ICT provision.  NB. The number of Havering schools actively engaged with the SRF and aiming for the extremely prestigious ICT Mark has doubled in the past three months.  The momentum is really growing.  We hope to be announcing more ICT Mark accredited schools before the end of the Summer Term.  If you have Activemark, Arts Mark, Healthy Schools Award etc – it is time to get the ICT Mark too.

Create-A-Scape

http://www.createascape.org.uk/

Create-A-Scape is a FREE web resource that enables students to design and experience their own learning journeys using handheld computers.  Users can create a range of experiences from tours of discovery to art installations - the only constraint is imagination.

Matthew’s Natter - WriteOnline from Crick Software

Matthew_Turk_Write_Online

Click in the link above to read Matthew Turk’s article on WriteOnline from Crick Software…

Find out more about WriteOnline from Crick Software themselves… http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/writeonline/ 

 

 

LGfL launch i-Board content

www.iboard.lgfl.net

 

Click on the link above to open.  If you are not opening it via the LGfL network, you will need your LGfL log-in and password.

Primary ICT Leaders’ Meeting June 2009 Whybridge Infant School - still time to sign-up for session on 17th June 2009

ICT Leaders June 2009

Click to watch a video of images from the meeting.  ICT Leaders June 2009 

A resounding success, with opportunities to see Whybridge Infant School’s Creative ICT in action, demonstrations on visualisers, Talking Products, Clicker in the Classroom, videos from the HIAS Early Years’ ICT Project, updates on the Rose Review, HOscars, HIAS Innovative ICT Bursaries and so on.  Did you miss the last one?  Well come to the repeat showing on Wednesday 17th June 2009.  Sign-up now via the HIAS Course Booking system…

Click to open the agenda Primary ICT Leaders Meeting Agenda June 2009

Michael Rosen gets ready for National Poetry Day at CEME

On Thursday 11th June 2009 Michael Rosen visited CEME to be filmed in readiness for National Poetry Day live over video-conferencing from Crownfield Junior School on October 8th 2009. Michael performed some of his vast array of poems, shared inspirations for poetry and set some poetry activities ready for Poetry Day on October 8th 2009. You do not have to have video-conferencing equipment to participate. Sign-up now at www.poetryday.lgfl.net. Check out Michael Rosen’s website at http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/

Sing-up!

http://www.singup.org/

Sing Up is the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme. It’s a programme to make sure that singing is at the heart of every primary school child’s life. We believe that singing has power to change lives and help to build stronger communities. Thanks to Brookside Infant School for flagging-up this website.

Principal Tuba of the LSO tunes-up Havering students’ music skills

Students from Abbs Cross, Campion, Coopers and Sacred Heart of Mary Schools had the excellent experience of linking with Patrick Harrild, the Principal Tuba of the London Symphony Orchestra http://lso.co.uk/patrickharrild over video-conferencing who worked with the students to develop their tuba playing skills in readiness for a competition in July.  The students worked on Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. Patrick gave advice to the students, helping them to hone their playing skills.  Head of the Havering Music School Isobel Liebman commented, “This was a great opportunity for our students to work with an expert in the field to improve their playing skills.”

Primary ICT Leaders’ Meeting - 10th/17th June 2009 (Choice of dates)

 

 1.   This Term please join the HIAS ICT Team and Whybridge Infant School to explore ICT in Early Years and Key Stage One as part of the ICT Leaders’ Termly meeting, with practical ideas on how to embed ICT across the curriculum.  We will also be joined by consultants demonstrating benefits of visualisers, Clicker software and Talking Products (Talking Tins, Photo Albums etc) to support teaching and learning and we will also provide a sneak preview of the forthcoming content of the HIAS Early Years’ ICT Project DVD.  We shall also be announcing the winners of the HIAS Innovative ICT Project Bursaries…

Please note - this session is aimed at ICT leaders from across the primary phase. 

 

2.    Please find the full agenda below for your perusal – travel details included.

Primary_ICT_Meeting_Agenda_June_2009

 

3.    Please sign-up now via the HIAS Online Course Booking System. 

http://cpd.havering.lgfl.digitalbrain.com/lgfl/leas/havering/cpd/cpd/web/cdb/index.php?authenticated

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