Imagine a whole school picture… without the hassle of getting everyone together.

In recent years, the whole school picture has, sadly, become a bit of a thing of the past. 

Whereas it used to be customary for an image of the whole school to be taken every few years and then hung in the school hall or in the reception area, for many schools today the production of such a picture is seen as too much of a problem or too expensive.

And this is a shame, not least because a series of whole school photos taken over many years will invariably have a huge impact on visitors to the school.  For such photographs impart a sense of continuity, permanence, and style.

And today it is a fact that the taking of a whole school photograph is easier and a lot less expensive than it has ever been.

Furthermore, and quite amazingly, there is no need for a complicated rig to be set up for everyone to sit or stand on together.  Nor does there need to be any great disruption to the school timetable as there is no longer any need to get everyone together at the same time. 

Now I can understand that this might seem impossible – to have a full school picture taken without all the disruption, setting up the rig, and gathering everyone together.  But indeed, it can be done.

What’s more, the whole production is now less expensive than ever before because of the new techniques involved.

To see an example of a whole school photograph shot in this individual way please click here.  Alternatively, if you would like to talk about this process or make a booking, please:

• Phone 01202 692433
• Email roy@fraserportraits.com
• Or write to Mr R. L Fraser, Managing Director, Fraser Portraits Ltd, 206 The Broadway, Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Dorset, BH18 8DP

Roy Fraser

Ensure it’s your teachers who make pupil progress decisions, not your software

Children’s progress needs to be measured in line with a commitment to high quality, in-class assessment for learning. But, many of the pupil progress trackers on the market simply aren’t cutting it.

That’s because lots of the systems are driven by tick-box thinking. Based on formulas that calculate overall objectives, they only succeed in taking assessment decisions out of teachers’ hands.

When Sue Hackman decided to work with us to create the Climbing Frames Assessment app, she wanted to create a system that went beyond simply adding up objectives, or that limited the school to just measuring Maths and English.

That’s why we’ve made sure that the assessment app is quick, manageable and user-friendly.  While also allowing your teachers to draw progress judgments directly from their own knowledge of how pupils are doing.

Teachers will find it easy to take an all round view of where each child is, based entirely on the new National Curriculum, ranging from not yet started to substantially secure.

Not just for the core subjects, either. Climbing Frames covers all National Curriculum subjects.

The app also lets you know at a glance what each child has achieved and where they need to go next.

As a school leader, you can see reports on what pupils have not yet attained at individual, class and cohort level. Giving you a clear indication of what teachers have covered and what remains to be taught.  

The app gives your leadership team the solid data you need for accountability.

Tracking and reporting data is transparent and easy to share. So, you have the information you need to understand how individuals, classes and cohorts are progressing across all subjects. 

If you would like to see how the Climbing Frames app supports your teachers and leaders, I would be delighted to organise a demonstration of the app.

You can book your demonstration quickly and easily online at www.climbingframes.org.uk/book-your-demo/.  Or you can contact me directly 0121 224 7584 and by email at james@imaginativeminds.co.uk.

I look forward to hearing from you.

James Mason
Marketing – Climbing Frames
Tel: 0121 224 7584 | Fax: 0121 224 7598
www.climbingframes.org.uk

PS Climbing Frames will help your teachers measure progress across all core and foundation subjects. Try it for yourself at: www.climbingframes.org.uk/book-your-demo/.  

Perhaps the most important aspect of playtime for children at Sure Start centres is that it feels different from the rest of the day. 

But of course, when it is very cold or raining the normal routine of playtime is disrupted.  Which is why increasing numbers of Sure Start centres have introduced a wet playtime policy.

There is a dual point to this. First, it ensures that all colleagues know exactly what the routine is when it is wet outside during playtime.

Second, it ensures that for the children, playtime still feels like playtime. It is still a break from the other activities that the children undertake during the day.

This means that the Sure Start centre should have a range of indoor play activities that are entirely different from those they use as part of active learning or learning-through-play.  The change of activity which children get during clement weather is maintained.

As a result of providing a set of entirely different play activities to be used only at wet playtimes, the concept of a “break” is maintained, and children then return to their regular indoor activities once playtime is over.  Even though they haven’t been outside.

It is for this reason that Edventure regularly supplies Sure Starts with an Infant Wet Playtime Pack, specifically designed for young children, which contains a total of 18 games for just £70. Additionally, this particular pack comes with a free colour and shape game.

You can find our full range of wet play packs on our website.

You can order the Infant Wet Playtime Pack in a variety of ways, including:

• at www.edventure.co.uk
• by faxing us to 01323 50 10 41
• by calling us on 01323 50 10 40
• by emailing us at sales@edventure.co.uk   
• by post to Edventure Ltd, Hargreaves Business Park, Hargreaves Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 6QW.

And if you quote HH0515 on your order delivery will be free. Without quoting the code the charge is £3.95 if ordered online or £6.95 if ordered by fax, phone or post.

Suitable for the new examination specifications 2015 and covering the requirements for all the major examination boards this unique PowerPoint resource, is designed for the experienced teacher or teachers who are new to teaching statistics as part of A-level Psychology. Also it requires minimal statistical knowledge to deliver.

This resource carefully and clearly demonstrates how to calculate:

1.     Standard Deviation
2.     Binomial Sign Test
3.     Chi-Square Ӽ²
4.     Spearman’s rho
5.     Mann Whitney U
6.     Wilcoxon T

There are seven PowerPoints in total (one introductory and then the six statistical tests). The slides are set out in a way to engage students in a simple yet informative way. Each test has an explanation, a progressive worked example and one for the student to attempt themselves. They are designed to be presented as six whole lessons.

Quite simply, this pack contains everything you need to deliver the statistical tests, just simply ‘pick up and go’.

The author is a Chartered Psychologist, an experienced publisher, Psychology Teacher/Lecturer and a member of the Royal Statistical Society.

Reviews:

“These are no nonsense PowerPoints which simply talk the viewer through the statistical calculations. The students found it accessible and we could easily flip back through slides for clarification.”
Claire Barker: Head of Psychology, Queen’s College, Taunton

“Does exactly what it says on the packet, teaches you how to teach the statistical tests: understandable, fun and informative for students.”
Dr Agnes Lech: Queen Mary’s, London

A-Level Psychology “How to do series”: Statistical Tests.

6 Powerpoint Presentations, total 76 slides. £49.99 (£59.99 including VAT)

Once purchased, the CD can be freely copied and networked throughout the school!

To see sample pages please email info@classroom-resources.co.uk quoting the order code H19053

You can order the A Level Psychology “How To Do” Series Statistical Tests CD-ROM in any of these ways: 

• On our website
• By phone on 0117 940 6409
• By fax on 0117 940 6408
• By email (quoting a school order number) to info@classroom-resources.co.uk
• By post to: Classroom Resources Ltd, 9 Logan Road, Bristol, BS7 8DU

Classroom Resources Ltd
9 Logan Road,
Bristol,
BS7 8DU

www.classroom-resources.co.uk
info@classroom-resources.co.uk
Tel: 0117 940 6409

What more can be done to support your pupils
in preventing, managing and overcoming
poor mental health?

With 76.9% of school leaders reporting that they have had to support a student with poor mental health, and 65.8% reporting that they have had reason to make a referral to CAMHS, it is vital that support is readily available for students, now more than ever.

One way that you can support your students in preventing, managing and overcoming poor mental health is by offering them a comprehensive understanding of mental health through your teaching in PSHE lessons or elsewhere.

As a result, MHTV has produced a whole range of DVDs which you can use to help develop your students understanding of mental health. Titles include Extreme Anxiety, Depression, and Anorexia Nervosa, among just a few.

You can see the full range of our DVD titles on our website. And if you quote save2015 when ordering we will give you a 10% off the prices shown on the website.

Even the smallest most inexpensive item can have a significant effect on student behaviour and parental perception.

Can a pen make a difference? Could a pen change the way a person thinks and behaves? Might it actually make a person perceive their environment in a different way?

It seems rather strange that an inexpensive item such as a pen really could change the way students and their parents might see the school and their place within the school community.

And yet pens which carry the school’s name, presented perhaps to each new pupil after their first half term at the school, do have this impact. In a recent survey over 90% of schools that had given a free pen to pupils and students felt that the approach helped enhance the identity of the school.

Indeed presenting after half term can be quite an important moment, because by this time the new school year has become established, the newness of the classes and timetable has worn off. Now here is one unexpected token of association that takes the pupils, students, and parents by surprise.

This is particularly important when it comes to the question of how the pupil or student sees the school. Being given a pen bearing the school’s name becomes a symbol of the world that the pupil is part of, and it will undoubtedly be shown to the parents.

And, of course, there is always the opportunity for the school to recover much of the cost of the pens that are given out in this way, for as well as giving away a pen to each pupil or student in a selected group, the students can also have the opportunity to buy a school pen later on.

All you have to do is order slightly more than you need for the initial give away and hold the spares in stock. You might be surprised at just how fast they are sold!

You can find more information about our Contour Ballpen with coloured grip on our website. If you require any other information or have any questions please do email sales@image-logo.co.uk or call 01323 745710.

Delivery normally takes 15-20 working days from artwork approval, but just in case time is tight we do have a wide range of Express items which could be turned around in 5 days (from artwork approval).

What’s more, if you are looking at getting any other branded items for your school, Image Logo UK Ltd has a wide range of different products available, all of which can be marked up with any details of the school that you wish. You can see the whole range on our e-book.

Nicole Carter
www.image-logo.co.uk

I am writing to invite your school to a training session on tackling homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in secondary schools on 14th October 2015

Homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying is endemic in secondary schools. 55 per cent of lesbian, gay and bisexual students say they’ve experienced homophobic bullying, and almost nine in ten secondary school teachers say pupils regardless of sexual orientation experience it in their school, with nine in ten also hearing homophobic language (phrases like ‘that’s so gay’) in school. Almost all teachers say they want to tackle this problem, but lack the training or support to do so. These issues impact upon student lives, grades and how a school addresses these areas are scrutinised by OFSTED.

Sir Christopher Hatton Academy has worked closely with Stonewall and were the first school to achieve their prestigious “Gold Award”. We are an ethnically diverse school with a very active peer support team and were pleased to be graded as Outstanding by OFSTED in January 2015.

‘Without a doubt the most helpful training I have attended in 17 years of teaching!’

‘Superb range of ideas that will introduce staff to the practical aspect of tackling homophobic behaviour.’

99.9 per cent felt more confident afterwards and would recommend the course to others

Feedback from courses in 2014 – 2015. Statistics from The School Report (2012) and The Teachers’ Report (2014)

Stonewall Train the Trainer courses give staff the knowledge, tools and confidence to train colleagues in tackling HBT bullying and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans young people.

Attending a course means your school will receive year-long membership of Stonewall’s School Champions programme, including an extensive pack of resources, free access to their School Role Models programme and ongoing support and guidance. All this – the course and a year’s membership – are just £150 +VAT (£100 + VAT for qualifying schools – contact us for details)

This course will be delivered over a full day at Sir Christopher Hatton Academy – a Stonewall Training Partner with particular expertise in tackling HBT bullying.

I do hope you or a colleague can make it. For more information or to book, please contact Mr J Barker via Barkerj@hattonacademy.org.uk ASAP

Best wishes,

Mr John Barker

Sir Christopher Hatton Academy
Stonewall Training Partner

A STEM related Saturday Workshop aimed at G&T students, held in your school, and at no cost to the school.

Gifted and Talented students tend naturally to be particularly interested in latest developments in science, technology, maths and engineering.  They tend to take more notice of the news and become ever more fascinated by possibilities.

Of course, it is difficult to adjust the curriculum every time a big story that could be used with such students comes up.  And that is why the Spectacular Saturday Workshops series exists.

At present one of our most popular events is Target: Mars – a one day project suitable for secondary students from year 7 to 13.

Here we have six heroic individuals embarking on what turns out to be an ill-fated colonisation of Mars.

Each group knows that they are involved in a space race and must work together to achieve the ultimate glory of the first landing on the Red Planet.

But they have to invest their funds wisely, determine which of their team members has the skills to complete each of the changes, undertake experiments, and solve the problems they face.

They use the techniques that are fundamental to scientific research but meanwhile have to overcome a terrorist plot, an outbreak of disease, industrial espionage, and all the dangers that Mars itself will present.

Quite simply, you choose a day on which you can open up your school, and we will come in and run the event based around the theme you choose.  Our costs are paid for by parents (usually around £35 per student) although the school can, if it wishes, subsidise the cost in certain or indeed all students from its own funds.

The Target: Mars team will need access to the hall or a large room in which the project takes place from 8.30 to 15.45 and during the course of the day will provide different versions of the event for different age ranges.

We will also supply posters and leaflets to your students and all the promotional literature for parents, which you can put on your headed paper, or edit if you wish. There are more details about Target : Mars here.  

Thinkers in Education also undertakes two other Saturday projects, “Bunkered” (in which an asteroid is heading towards Earth) and “Dead on Time” (in which crime scene investigators unravel a suspicious death) – and there are details of all three projects on our website.

For further information, please call us on 01603 520866 or email events@thinkersineducation.co.uk

Activity books that will support your pupils on the journey from decoding to comprehension and on to critical thinking.

In order for your pupils to become confident in their comprehension abilities, they must first be confident in their ability to decode texts. Once decoding has been mastered they are well on their way to becoming confident in their comprehension abilities.

Towards the end of their primary school career, an ability to think critically about texts will also be established where they will be pondering questions, such as: “what does the writer really mean?” and “why has the writer chosen to use these words?”

With Topical Resources’ Comprehension Activity Books for Year 1 to Year 6 you can support your pupils with this journey, all the way from decoding texts, to comprehending texts, to thinking critically about texts.

You can see sample pages from each of the activity books by clicking on the links below:

Comprehension Activity Book – Year 1

Comprehension Activity Book – Year 2

Comprehension Activity Book – Year 3

Comprehension Activity Book – Year 4

Comprehension Activity Book – Year 5

Comprehension Activity Book – Year 6

We have also produced a Comprehension Activity Book for Year 7 which you can use to challenge your Year 6 pupils who have progressed above and beyond expectations.

The activities can either be used with full classes, small groups, or individual pupils and are available in three formats:

• Black and White Photocopiable book (£17.95)
• Full colour PDF e-book on a CD (£15.95+VAT)
• Or you can download the PDF straight from our website (£13.95+VAT)

If you are looking at implementing a whole-school Comprehension programme using our clear, concise, easy-to-follow and child-friendly Comprehension Activity Books, you can buy all seven books at a discounted price of £112 for the books, £105+VAT for the e-book on a CD, or £84+VAT for the download on our website.

Or if you’d prefer, you can order the comprehension resources:

• By phone on 01772 863158
• By fax at 01772 866153
• By email to sales@topical-resources.co.uk         
• By post to Topical Resources, P.O. Box329, Broughton, Preston, Lancashire PR3 5LT

   
www.topical-resources.co.uk
sales@topical-resources.co.uk

Exclusively prepared for teachers who organize
student trips to Germany

Dear Teacher,

It’s not too late to organize an amazing and affordable student trip for this year! 

Here just some of many ideas for a student trip to one of Germany’s best areas for student travel from the UK, the Rhineland:

Discover Duisburg

This city of almost 500,000 is one of Germany’s largest university towns, has the largest inland harbor, and is an important city for commerce, steel production, architecture, history, and culture.   Only about 20 miles from Düsseldorf Airport, Duisburg is the perfect city to include in a Rhineland itinerary filled with the region’s exotic and unique attractions. 

Stay at these two DJH City Hostels in Duisburg:

DJH Hostel Sportpark
An amazing hostel – brand-new, and with a look and a list of features that equal many top sports hotels:

• In-house sports center, gym and sauna
• Ball field on-premises
• 2 volley ball fields
• 7 conference rooms
• All rooms with private bath

The hostel is located right in the enormous Sportpark Duisburg, one of Germany’s largest and most modern sports parks, with over 500 acres of land and 150 acres of water facilities. It supports 40 different sports and is home to 30 local clubs and teams.  Perfect for your sports-related trips! Click here for information and pictures

DJH Hostel Landschaftspark
The hostel is named after the Landscape Park Duisburg, a public park built in 1991 on a former industrial site and a stunning example of how the industrial past of a region can be healed by transforming industrial elements into objects of beauty and recreation.   Our modern hostel is right in the park, and it’s the perfect location for your Rhineland adventure.

Bonn & Cologne Christmas Market

A Magical Germany Christmas Experience for Your Groups

A visit to the enchanting Christmas markets in Cologne and Bonn is a spectacular occasion for all ages.  Each city’s market is unique, and Cologne’s has seven different markets all over the city waiting to be discovered by your student and group travelers.   Stay at our hostels in Bonn and/or Cologne.  Optional: additional activities, e.g. a trip to the Odysseum Adventure Museum in Cologne, the Cologne Cathedral, the Chocolate Museum, and much more – for a fascinating itinerary.

Rates: starting at € 22.90 per night per person, including breakfast, lunch or dinner, and all taxes.

Contact us for a free proposal for rooms and activities!

For more information, contact Rainer Perry – Marketing & Sales Manager North America, UK & Ireland; email:  rainer@go2city.travel

Full contact info below

Christmas Markets are just one of many reasons for a school trip to Germany.  Germany is becoming a trendier and more popular travel destination all the time, especially for student groups from the UK.   You know why:  whether by train, coach, car or plane, Germany is an easy reach from most places in the UK, often in just a few hours.  The country offers great values in accommodations, restaurants, and many other attractions – and the options keep growing from year to year. 

We at DJH GO2CITY want to help you get the latest about traveling to one of Germany’s most fascinating – and most accessible – areas: the Rhine Ruhr Region. 

For all 2015 and 2016 Student Trips to Germany’s Rhineland:
Your partner Go2City – DJH’s all-in-one travel agency 

The incoming agency partner you’ve been looking for!  We help you with all aspects of your stay, so that you don’t have to spend your time and money planning the best travel for your students. Our in-house meeting planning agency creates the best itineraries at no cost and helps you book tours and tickets, often at huge discounts.  You safe money and time. 

We own the accommodation and the in-house agency.  No middle men, no extra fees, no miscommunications or wasted time.  Just tell us what your group wants to do, and we’ll put the whole package together!

What do you want your students to experience in Germany?

• Music? – We know the right festivals, concerts and local choirs and music groups for your performance
• Performances? – We find local theaters, rehearsal spaces, audiences and stage time.
• Sports? – We connect you to local teams, competitions, and stadiums
• Education? – We have loads of contacts at local schools, universities, and programs.
• Other programs also available, including drama, languages, etc.

Choose your customized itineraries and activity modules

• Museum and theater visits
• Sports and tournaments
• Specialized city tours and looks behind the scenes
• Excursions beyond city limits
• Transfers and coach trips (free coach parking at our hostels!)
• Local contacts for activity-centered trips (sports, theater, music, education)
• And much more

Packages also available:

• 3-day programs starting at 79 € per person
• 5-day programs starting at 161 € per person

For more information, visit: www.go2city.travel

Free Unlimited Overnight Stays for 2 Chaperones with any Student Group Bookings!
Teachers and chaperones stay free with a group of 10 students or more, no matter how long the stay.  Ask us for details!

Budget accommodations – high quality hotel alternatives for student groups
You’ve heard amazing things about modern hostels in Germany. They are true at DJH City-Hostels in Bonn, Cologne, and Düsseldorf.  You get amazing 3-star hotel-quality accommodations in Germany at hostel prices, and they are perfect for student groups.  Our hostels are still among the best kept secrets of the budget-conscious traveler, but more and more foreign groups are catching on to the amazing value and quality:

• Some of the best hostels in the world.  3-star hotel level at hostel prices!
• Pristine, modern single & multi-bed rooms, all with private baths
• Amazing rates: starting at € 22.90 per night per person, including breakfast, lunch or dinner, and all taxes

Who we are:

DJH GO2City is the new in-house travel agency by non-profit DJH (German Youth Hostel Association).   Operating  6 hostels in 4 cities in Germany’s Rhine Ruhr Region, DJH GO2CITY also plans and executes customised itineraries and programmes for groups and individuals.

Here a list of all our hostels:
City-Hostel Bonn
City Hostel Cologne-Deutz
City-Hostel Cologne-Riehl
City-Hostel Duisburg Sportpark
City-Hostel Duisburg Landschaftspark
City-Hostel Düsseldorf

For more information about DJH, to request a customised proposal or to book your group reservations, please contact:
Rainer Perry – Marketing & Sales Manager North America, UK & Ireland

DJH Go2City

934 8th Avenue 2b; New York, NY 10019; USA
phone: +1 646 207 6406
email: rainer@go2city.travel
www.go2city.travel
www.city-hostel.de
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/djhgo2city

click here for our online ebooks:
DJH City-Hostels in Cologne & Düsseldorf

New in-house agency Go2City

Students who can touch-type will deliver more accurate, better presented and easier to read work. That will save you and your teaching colleagues’ considerable time in deciphering and marking badly written scripts.

Meanwhile, Ofqual has publicly stated that online exams should replace pen and paper for today’s students. The major awarding bodies have already welcomed this view. When the inevitable happens, students who can type accurately at speed will perform better in tests.

So to improve the keyboard skills of your pupils so that they can type quickly, accurately, effortlessly and safely, then look no further than Type&Test Ltd, the UK’s leading specialists in online touch-typing training and assessment.

Whatever your budget for this activity – or even if you don’t have one – we have a solution for you!  Our range of options even includes an income generation scheme.

Simply click here to reply to this email using the subject line ‘Improved typing skills’ and we will email you a link to our Schools Brochure.

Kind regards

Andy Stevenson
Director
Type&Test Ltd

What is the most unexpected unwelcome event
that can befall a school?

It is hard to imagine a school in which senior management know that the law is being broken and yet in which they turn a blind eye and continue to allow the offence to happen.

And yet, if you were to go onto Google and type in “School breaches data protection” you will find page after page of examples of schools that have suffered the fines, ignominy, and bad publicity that comes from being caught out.

No school ever deliberately breaks the Data Protection Act.  Every school has a Data Protection policy in place.  But it happens.

The worst of it is that most of the people who break the Act are actually trying to be helpful, for the most common cause of breaking the Act involves a member of staff  transmitting sensitive data via email – perhaps to their home address so that they can once again continue working at home.

The data might be personal data including staff and pupil names, dates of birth, addresses, national insurance numbers, school marks, medical information, exam results, SEN assessments, and staff development reviews….

Sometimes they even transmit sensitive personal data which covers race, ethnicity, political opinions, religious beliefs, membership of trade unions, physical or mental health, sexuality… The difference between processing personal data and sensitive personal data is that there are greater legal restrictions on the latter.

The person who is responsible in such circumstances is the head teacher as it is the head who holds the role of Data Controller in a school.  Equally, the Board of Governors are responsible for ensuring that the school has taken appropriate measures to ensure data confidentiality.

The fine for getting it wrong is up to £500,000 from the Information Commissioners Office.

And yet the solution is easy.  You just need to ensure that if you are sending any information via email, or putting it on any transportable device, it is encrypted.

Emailsecurity supplies email encryption software to schools in the UK.  There is nothing to be installed on individual machines, just some very simple changes to your email configuration, and typically takes less than 10 minutes to get you up and running.  That’s it.  You use your existing email address as normal.

The pricing model is also really simple and is payable annually.

There is no installation charge, no upfront fee, and no long term commitment.  Please contact schools@emailsecurity.eu and we will be more than happy to work with you and your local IT support partner to get you up and running within 10 minutes.  Alternatively please call Tel: +44 20 3598 4798

X509, Enniscorthy Enterprise & Technology Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland www.emailsecurity.eu

Start a Creative Writing Club
in the click of a mouse

Many schools are running a creative writing club  – either after school or at lunchtime in the library. It’s a fantastic way to boost writing. However, dreaming up new writing materials every week is a time commitment.

Now you can start a lunchtime or after school club with zero preparation time!

• Our interactive writing Apps make writing fast and fun
• New topics every week mean they’ll never run out of things to write about!
• Publish pupils work in our Hall of Fame on in your own book.

Plus: use it to write class stories on your topic: the rainforest, floods, space, the Stone Age, the Romans, the Greeks, the Bronze Age, the Anglo-Saxons, Romeo and Juliet, Great fire of London, unicorns, football, hamsters and sci-fi.

There are 30 topics planned this year (two new topics are added every week in term time). Suggest a topic and we’ll create an activity especially for you.

How do I start my free trial?

There are two ways. Visit http://creativewritingclub.co.uk and click on the sign up button. (Use the coupon hamlet for a 20 percent discount).

Or call 0845-8385-526 and we’ll set up your free trial with you over the phone. It only takes 5mins. (Don’t forget to mention the coupon hamlet when we set the trial up).

Note: You’ll need to provide some invoicing details. You will not be invoiced till the end of the trial. Cancel at any time during the trial and you won’t get billed – no quibbles!

Would you describe yourself as ‘not so great’ with computers?

We’ve designed the site with everyone in mind.

• Pupil passwords can be torture! So we’re using a single user name and password for the whole school.
• Multiple users can use the site at the same time. So your whole class can work on different stories.
•  It works on Mac, PC, Ipad and interactive white board.
• Print out your pupil’s planning work and use it for ‘evidence’.

There’s everything you need to start a Creative Writing Club in the click of a mouse. Visit:

http://creativewritingclub.co.uk and use the coupon hamlet for a 20 percent discount.

Activities To Help Young People Deal With Anger

These 33 activities have a particular focus on developing skills for managing anger and conflict, plus relating to others. Using a mentoring approach, they provide specific structured tasks that can be used during one-to-one intervention or for group work.

The activities include:

My Anger Triggers – For students to recognise the initial signs of anger and identify some ways of diffusing the emotion of anger.

Anger Matrix – To give students the opportunity to map their approach to anger and visualise where they are going and where they would like to be.

Initial Self-Assessment: Relating To Others – To give students the opportunity to assess themselves in order to provide a baseline for measuring progress with a focus on relating to others and issues of conflict.

Student Reassessment And Evaluation – To give students the opportunity to reassess themselves in order to measure progress.

How I Feel When I Am Angry – To give students the opportunity to reflect upon the physical responses to anger.

A Letter Home – For students to recognise how others may view their behaviour and reflect upon the impact this behaviour has upon others.

Ways Of Coping – For students to generate ways of coping in moments of crisis.

Improving My Listening – The aim of this activity is to raise student awareness of listening skills and how to improve them.

Dilemmas 1 & 2 – To give students the opportunity to consider dilemma-based learning situations.

Conflict: What It Is And How To Deal With It – To raise awareness of the skills students will need to enable them to mediate between students in conflict.

Read All About It: Making Headlines – Students are to consider the content of a story then think about how stereotypes can influence people’s actions and reactions.

Crime Scene Investigation – To give students the opportunity to act as investigators and look objectively at a given situation and come to their own conclusion, thereby encouraging independent thinking.

What Happens Next? (1 & 2) – These activities aim to help students to consider a set of circumstances and consequences.

Stop Seeing Red – To identify strategies for coping with highly charged emotional situations.

My Autobiography – To augment and support the idea that the students’ decisions have an impact upon their lives and their futures.

My Progress – For students to demonstrate that there is measurable progress in aspects of their learning.

Target Setting And Action Planning – To develop a set of SMART targets and create a plan of action.

Review: Target Setting And Action Planning – To review a set of targets and prepare a plan of action.

Each activity includes full instructions, and worksheets which can be photocopied from the A4 book or printed out from the FREE CD Rom.

ISBN: 978 1 909380 49 3- 64 page A4 ring bound book with FREE CD Rom. 

Ages 10-16

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Do you want this job or would you sooner check your text messages?

People who find themselves undertaking interviews of students who are seeking a job or who are looking for a place on a course love to share horror stories.

They talk of the young women who don’t turn their mobile off or, worse, actually check their phone while in the interview. 

They share stories about school leavers who write outrageous comments on social media about their school, college or current employer, and then can’t believe that their potential employer or course organiser has actually looked them up. 

Such tales of course tell us what we already know: that many young people are very naïve when it comes to applications and interviews.

Which is why we produced “101 Ways to be Successful at Job and College Interviews.”

Like all good manuals this one starts with a premise, and here the premise is that an interview is a two way process, allowing the candidate to get an idea of what the company or college is like as well as being a chance to impress potential employers and lecturers.

Thus we ask the most obvious question: “Why do you want this job/course?” and moves onto the variations, such as thinking about “Why do you want to work for this company”, “Why do you want to study here?” and so on.

Each of the 101 Ways is an exercise or an activity as well as providing information on what to do in different situations. Thus 101 Ways will enable your students to prepare thoroughly for first job or college interviews and help them to manage any nerves.

Students can dip into chapters that will help them brush up on specific bits of preparation or use it as a workbook from start to finish as a complete guide to being successful at interviews.

This book has been written by an experienced recruiter who both trains recruiters and helps inexperienced interviewees of all ages. Each chapter covers a different aspect of the interview process with 101 practical and thought provoking tips that have been proven to work.

Teachers may also use this book as a class resource in Careers, English, Drama, PSHE, Citizenship or other lessons to prepare pupils for interview practices or the real thing. Each chapter is followed by a series of suggested exercises, mostly working in pairs or small groups, which develop the key themes of that chapter.

You can see some sample pages at http://www.pdf.firstandbest.co.uk/careers/T1633.pdf

Publisher’s reference: T1633EMN ISBN: 978 1 86083 683 1

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