Welcome Back - New Goodies for a new year!

Welcome back! I have found a really interesting website that I wanted to share with you called 'Born to Learn'. There are some great animations on here and some lovely resources to support your PD. Enjoy!

http://www.born-to-learn.org/


Born to Learn: Class Reunion from Born to Learn on Vimeo.

Have a great year. I am really looking forward to working with you.

Nina

History-pin

http://www.historypin.com/
This is a rich source of historical photographs that could benefit colleagues accross the curriculum.  On this site, photos are entered according to their date and place, so they produce historical records of every part of the world.

Nina

Brilliant Leadership and Strategic Planning Tools

I have discovered two brilliant sites that are loaded with fantastic resources for leaders to broaden thinking and gain practical tools for strategic planning.

Vision Mapper is a superb site with a diverse range of tools, resources and ideas to make you think 'Outside the Box' and strategically plan for the future. Click on the link to discover more:


 http://www.visionmapper.org.uk/index.php

The Exploratree web resource has been developed by Futurelab and emerged out of our work on the Enquiring Minds project. It provides a series of ready-made interactive 'thinking guides' or 'frameworks' which can support students' projects and research. Thinking guides support the thinking or working through of an issue, topic or question and help to shape, define and focus an idea and also support the planning required to investigate it further. Exploratree guides can be used as a basis for whole class discussion, or emailed to individuals or groups to complete. They can also be used as a presentation tool to share your findings and thinking with others. As well as providing a set of ready to use thinking guides, which are completely customisable and shareable, Exploratree also enables teachers and students to create their own simply and easily.

http://www.exploratree.org.uk/

Ninax

A Super offering foir ALL Teachers froim Mike in MFL

I have attached a list of links to good interactive or resource making websites. The first of these ( blockbuster quiz) is for plenaries and is particularly impressive. There are countless ready made quizzes in all subjects but the site also enables you to make your own very quickly. There are also some other brilliant sites here for people to play around with - 'Topmarks' is again another excellent one for all subjects.There is a splendid one for History teachers, although they may already know about it. You may already know about a lot of them but then again, maybe not. I hope they are useful.

Mike Davies
1. http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters/
2. http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/graphics-sitemap.html
3. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/
4. http://www.blogger.com/goog_1264278729146
5.http://puzzles.about.com/od/beginnersxwords/Easy_Crossword_Puzzles_Crossword_Puzzles_for_Beginners.htm
6. http://www.tes.co.uk/resources/Home.aspx
7. http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-home.htm
8. http://www.tes.co.uk/Resources/Resource.aspx?page=Resource&resourceId=357

A great blog for St Andrews School - Some great stuff!

Mr Paige kindly e-mailed me a link to this excellent Blog from St Andrews School. It is a fantastic blog with some great resources for Arts, RE, Assemblies and a brilliant area set up by older students to give the new Year 7 cohort an introduction to the school. The 'Soul Food' area that can be accessed via Sailsbury House link is pretty cool too. I really like it and I hope you can find something useful for your teaching.

 http://www.andyblogs.co.uk/