This week, Boardworks are giving away a free KS3 Computing presentation on E-Safety.

Staying safe online is extremely important for your KS3 students. This presentation, which includes two interactive activities on online and social-networking dangers, asks students to consider what they are posting online and the best ways to deal with the problems and risks they may face.

Visit our ICT and Computing free stuff page to download the presentation:

Regards,

The Boardworks Team

P.S. We still have resources on Sampling, IF Statements and Python available in our archive – access them via our free stuff page!

www.essa-schoolswimming.com

Patron:
HRH The Duke of Cambridge

National Swimming Championship for Primary Schools 2015

January 2015

This National Swimming Championships will be organised by English Schools’ Swimming Association under A.S.A. Laws and Technical Rules.

All schools in England with primary aged children (aged 9 years and Under 11 years as at August 31^st / September 1^st 2014, the commencement of the academic year) are invited to enter relay teams.

NEW AGE GROUPS FOR THIS YEAR

For the purpose of these Championships there will be three school size categories:

(a) Large Schools are defined as being those which have a combined total of 101 or more in curriculum years 5 and 6.

(b) Medium Schools are defined as being those which have a combined total of between 51 and 100 in curriculum years 5 and 6.

(c) Small schools are defined as being those which have no more than a combined total of 50 in curriculum years 5 and 6.

Conditions of entry can be found on the ESSA website: www.essa-schoolswimming.com.

There will be a series of Divisional rounds, and in some Divisions these will be preceded by County rounds. These will take place before the end of May and the first three in each event from each Division will go forward to the Finals. The Finals will be held on Saturday 20^th June 2015 at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.

A list of Divisional/County Rounds is listed below. Divsional Representatives may be contacted via our website: www.essa-schoolswimming.com

John StivenHon.
General Secretary
j.stiven@essa-schoolswimming.com
01932 345011

Championship Secretary
Mrs C.M. Young
5 Eskdale Close
Oadby
Leicester
LE2 4TJ
0116 271616

PRIMARY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015

DIVISIONAL EVENTS: Look on ESSA website for details. essa-schoolswimming.com

NORTH EAST

South Area Gala:
22^nd March 2015 1.30 p.m.
The John Smiths’ Stadium, Huddersfield

North East final
30^th April 12.30
Freeman’s Quays Durham

NORTH WEST
Friday 24^th April, Warm up 6.0pm
Everton Park Sports Centre, L5 5PH

EAST MIDLANDS
Friday 24^th April, Warm up 6.00pm
Meridian Leisure Centre Louth Lincs

WEST MIDLANDS
Friday 20^th March 2015 Warm up 1.00pm
The Queen’s Jubilee Centre, Rugby CV22 5LJ

EAST
Herts/Bucks: Friday 27^th February Warm up 6.30pm
Woodside Pool, Watford. WD25 7HH
Suffolk / Norfolk Round Sunday 19^th April
Warm up 3.30 Saint Felix School, Southwold. IP18 6SD

LONDON
Wednesday 29^th April 2015
Jags Sports Club, London. SE24 9JN

SOUTH EAST

County Rounds:

Surrey: Saturday 31^st January at 6.00pm Guildford Spectrum
Hampshire: Fri 6th March at Waterlooville, 9.30am
Hertfordshire: Friday 27^th February Watford at 6.30pm
Oxfordshire: Friday 13th March Dragon School -12.30pm
Kent: 22nd March Venue: TBC
Sussex: TBC

South East Finals: Saturday 25^th April at Spectrum Pool, Guildford

SOUTH WEST

Monday 23rd March. Warm up 6.00pm
Millfield School Pool, Street, Somerset. BA16 0YD

ENGLISH SCHOOLS’ SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

www.essa-schoolswimming.com

Patron:
HRH The Duke of Cambridge

ESSA Dolphin Award

The Dolphin Award is an ESSA initiative to reward the teaching of School Swimming programmes. The 2015 competition will be available from February 1^st 2015.

How to enter the ESSA Dolphin Trophy Award.

• Go to the ESSA website for regulations and entry form or contact Richard Thorp to email excel version. Print off form from website, fill in and scan and return to Organiser. All entries will be acknowledged by email.

• Schools record their highest level of distance achieved from 5m to 100m swims as directed by the ASA National Teaching Plan. All results must conform to ASA stroke descriptors.

• This competition will be free to enter and entries must be submitted before the end of the current academic year.

• The event is designed to allow schools an additional value added event on top of their goals of achievement of progression towards all pupils swimming 25m by the end of Key Stage 2

• The Competition will be split into four year groups: Yr 3, Yr 4, Yr 5, Yr 6. There is a Small schools and Big schools sections. Points are awarded based on distances swum.

• There will be an overall Dolphin Trophy winner but there will also be separate State Primary and Independent Prep School sections for 2015.

• Entries close on July 18th 2015. Certificates and shields to be won.

GO TO http://www.essa-schoolswimming.com/ for more details and follow the Dolphin Award link

Help the ASA with future strategy for Primary school swimming. Use the results to help with your Primary Sports Premium funding from Government.

Teacher submitting data must sign entry form and acknowledge the Head Teacher is aware of the entry.

Richard Thorp – ESSA Dolphin Award Email: r.thorp@essa-schoolswimming.com

How can we use the time we spend cleaning up more effectively?

As we all know, the most effective way for children to learn is to experience the object or concept first hand, and in as many ways as there are senses.

And it is the sense of touch which often results in there being a significant amount of temporary collateral damage – also known as mess.

Yet the valuable learning experiences they get from using their sense of touch is significant, rendering the resultant mess somewhat insignificant.

However, the process of cleaning up this mess takes time, time that could be better spent with the children.

So what can be done to reduce that amount of time?

Quite simply, as in all workplaces, where staff are provided with plentiful and readily available means to carry out the cleaning tasks safely, without spoiling their clothing, the cleaning up process is faster.

What’s more, when the relevant materials are available in the room, or near the workstation where the activity is taking place, then the time taken to clear up can be dramatically reduced.

Whether the staff decide to wear protection when cleaning up is up to them, but making sure that there is a plentiful supply of protection is a must.

S & S Services offer a range of clothing and skin protection for both staff and children. Among these are Adult Aprons, Vinyl Gloves and Paper Towels along with Paper Towel Dispensers – the necessities of any nursery school room.

You can order in any of the following ways:

• On our website at the web links above
• By email to info@ss-services.co.uk
• By phone on 01789 765323
• By fax to 01789 765469
• By post to S & S Services, Units 4-8 Tything Road, Arden Forest Industrial Estate, Alcester, Warwickshire, B49 6EP.

Delivery

We offer free delivery on orders over £35 and charge only £2.99 delivery for orders which come to less than this across the majority of the UK.

For those requesting delivery from Northern Ireland, the Isles of Scilly, the Scottish Highlands, Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man, delivery is £7; and for those lucky enough to be living in the Channel Islands the delivery charge is £12.45 irrespective of the size of the order.

Make Sushi in School –
A new skill for the New Year

Kick start your New Year with a fun healthy eating project that is guaranteed to put a smile on your pupils’ faces even on those cold wet January days.

Order your sushi making kit now and start teaching your class how to make sushi this term. What better way to kick start the new term than by teaching a fun and exciting new skill that will engage and motivate the children as well as boosting their confidence in the kitchen. Sushi is one of the few fast foods that is also extremely healthy and that children aspire to eat. Whilst the process of making sushi is simple, the results are very impressive and children can use their new found knowledge to impress friends and family.

As long as you have the facilities to cook the rice before the lesson, the sushi making can take place in any classroom. The children can also learn to use the chopsticks provided in the kit to eat their creations.

The equipment in the kit is re-usable and the food is low cost and has a shelf life until the end of term. It is easy to replenish making this a great value ongoing project for your school.

Order now at www.makesushiinschool.com quoting HOUSE1 for our reference.