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@school
@school gives pupils, parents and teachers immediate access to thousands of
resources and online activities relevant to Key Stages 1 and 2, special needs
and early years. @school is free from advertising and acts as a gateway to
online assessment activities, learning tools, resource materials and online
educational activities.
AccessArt
AccessArt is a collection of online workshops and arts-education activities
aimed at all ages. For teachers, educators and artists, AccessArt provides
access to contemporary issues in visual arts education and an exchange of
information and ideas.
BBCi Schools: Key Stages 1 and 2 resources
A range of useful websites covering art, geography, history, languages,
literacy, numeracy, PSHE, science, and other subjects.
BBCi Schools:
Revision
BBC multimedia revision services with websites, TV programmes, books and
CD-ROMs which can be used together or separately.
Channel 4's Learning
Online educational resources for teachers, pupils and home learners and a
complete guide to over 400 hours of Channel 4's programmes for schools.
CreateArts
Enter your primary school to win a free visual art and creative writing project
that will see pupils working with professional artists and business volunteers
to transform a neglected area in your school. Open to all state-funded Inner
London primary schools. Launched: 17 September 2007.
Curriculum Online
This DCSF website is an online catalogue of thousands of multimedia
resources, linked to the National Curriculum. Many are free, the rest can be
bought with a school's eLC (electronic learning credit) money.
EducationGuardian.co.uk
EducationGuardian.co.uk is the Guardian newspaper's online news and
information service for the world of education.
Electronic Telegraph: Internet for Schools
Internet for Schools is a free service provided by the Electronic Telegraph, to
help teachers and students get more out of the Internet.
English Resources
A site containing free resources for teaching and revising English language
and literature with over 250 resources to download.
Film Education
Film Education is a registered charity funded by the film industry in the UK.
Its aim is to encourage and promote the study of film and cinema within the
curriculum. In addition to providing a range of free educational materials, Film
Education organises INSET courses, workshops, seminars and events including the
National Schools Film Week.
Granada Learning
Granada Learning produces a range of educational resources spanning the primary
and secondary school syllabuses to meet the requirements of learners of all ages
and abilities, ranging from infants through to A level and adult education.
Independent
Education
The Independent newspaper's online news and information service for the
world of education.
Learn.co.uk
Learn.co.uk is a learning resource for homework, revision, or preparing
lessons.
National Archives
Learning Curve
The National Archives Learning Curve is an online teaching resource, structured
to tie in with the history National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. Designed
for teachers, the Learning Curve contains a varied range of original sources
including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings.
National
Schools' Observatory (NSO)
The National Schools' Observatory is a major web-based resource that allows
UK schools to use world-class astronomical telescopes sited all around the
world. Observing time has been specially reserved on these professional
instruments for schools. Working with the resources developed by the Schools'
Observatory, students can prepare and carry out their own astronomical research
and share in the excitement of discovery.
Neighbourhood
Journeys
The Neighbourhood Journeys website is a practical guide for Key Stage 2
teachers to making the most of the local built environment as a context for
learning, in and around a school. The activities are achievable in any location,
and are designed to deliver the national curriculum in relevant and stimulating
ways. Tasks are organised into 'journeys', centred on literacy, dance, numeracy
and geography, and can be used in a variety of ways.
Nuffield
Primary Design and Technology
The Nuffield Primary Design and Technology Project is developing materials
to support design and technology teachers, with examples of pupils' work, sample
classroom materials to download and other resources for teachers.
Nuffield Primary
History
This website has a collection of real primary history lessons taught by real
teachers. For each one there is an account of the lesson including objectives
and outcomes, resources needed, and examples of children's work.
The Poetry Archive
The Poetry Archive is a free online resource, new in 2005, which will make
available recordings of English-language poets reading their own work. The
website is packed with information about poets and poetry, with advice on
teaching poetry effectively, lesson ideas based on the Archive's recordings and
an area where teachers can create and save their own lesson plans.
The Primary
National Strategy
This website explains what the Primary National Strategy is, what the key
initiatives are, and outlines the priorities for numeracy and literacy.
Primary Resources
Lesson plans, worksheets and activity ideas for primary-school teachers.
Spark Island Learning
Adventures
Spark Island contains more than 100 curriculum-led educational activities
designed to help ages 3 to 12 improve their learning. Activities are designed to
meet specific curriculum learning outcomes and allow teachers to easily and
effectively integrate ICT into the classroom.
Teacher
Assessment Activities
QCA has developed support materials for the Teacher Assessment Activities series
in art and design, design and technology, geography, history, and ICT. These
materials are fully integrated with the national curriculum, and provide
examples of assessment activities to help identify, track and enhance pupil
progress. Each book includes activities and teacher guidance.
Times
Educational Supplement
Internet version of the Times Educational Supplement
publication, covering the world of primary, secondary and further education.
Key Stage 2 information can be found in the A to Z of School Leadership and Management, and on TeacherNet's Literacy and Numeracy pages. New Key Stage 2 National Literacy Strategy booster lessons for Year 6 are now available.
Find out about target-setting or read the Primary Document for background information.
Go to TeacherNet's series on effective classroom techniques, distilled from research on teaching and learning worldwide, for articles on teaching literacy and numeracy at Key Stage 2. Or search the bank of lesson plans and TeacherNet resource reviews.
Here you can access a list of BBCi Schools resources for teachers and students at Key Stage 2, including a range of activities and revision guides.
Finally, many entries in TeacherNet's Useful Sites directory are now mapped by Key Stage, and now the site is fully searchable. More Key Stage 2-related useful sites are coming in all the time, so watch this space!
Key Stage 3 builds on the achievements of 11-year-olds at Key Stage 2 and the firm foundation which the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies are designed to deliver. The Key Stage 3 National Strategy is central to achieving wider objectives at secondary level, and this page is dedicated to supporting teachers as they implement it in the classroom.
The Framework for teaching English: Years 7, 8 and 9 and the Framework for teaching mathematics: Years 7, 8 and 9 are available to view, print and download.
The Key Stage 3 tests in English, mathematics and science went through some changes in 2003. Read a summary and find out where to get more help and advice.
Online tests for Key Stage 3 ICT are currently being piloted — see the separate article for further information.
For the first time, value-added performance tables were published for 14-year-olds (December 2003), providing a better reflection of school effectiveness than the threshold indicators on their own.
Since the Key Stage 3 National Strategy represents a fresh perspective on teaching and learning, TeacherNet has put together a guide to the range of sources of support, information and help available on the Internet for Key Stage 3, covering a range of topics, from Government guidelines to great lesson plans and projects.
See also TeacherNet's effective-teaching article on setting homework.
Children with autistic spectrum disorders newly arrived from primary into secondary school may have difficulty accessing the curriculum. For tips, see the guidance for SEN coordinators and teachers.
Click to go straight to searchable banks of lesson plans and reviews. Many of the Useful sites directory entries are now mapped by Key Stage: sites with specialist Key Stage 3 content include the Ordnance Survey's Mapzone, and the Ask Cedric trading standards website which is full of citizenship resources.
The BBCi Schools website also provides a broad range of resources for teachers and students at Key Stage 3.
Existing Strategy training and materials are being revisited and expanded, with the aim of increasing pupils' rates of progress. The focus will be on how the core subject departments can enable many more pupils to progress two levels across the Key Stage. In English and mathematics, attention will also be paid to pupils who enter at Level 3 and find it more difficult to progress to Level 5. In science, the focus will be on pupils who achieve Level 4 at the end of Key Stage 2 but find it difficult to make further progress to Level 5 during Key Stage 3.
The publication of the Key Stage 3 National Strategy 2004-05 (DCSF 0122-2004 G) expands on these aims and shows how the strategy links with the principles of school improvement and the actions that school leaders should undertake to promote improvement. It also offers practical guidance for senior leaders on working on whole-school initiatives, working with subject leaders and teachers. You can order or download the Key Stage 3 National Strategy from the Standards Site. You can also access Strategy Spring Headlines 2005 which offer a brief summary of priorities and information to support headteachers and senior leaders
Focussed learning Visits: continuing to help deliver 14-19 reform
'The enthusiasm and "joined-up thinking" combine to bring clarity to a very difficult area.'
In 2005/06, the then DfES established a programme of structured Learning Visits so that strategic planners and practitioners could visit areas where a great deal had been done, to learn about what has worked on delivering 14-19 education and training in a range of settings.
Following the success of the first five Tranches of Learning Visits, the DCSF is offering a sixth Tranche between mid-January and the end of March 2008.
These will be 'Focussed Learning Visits' on Diploma Delivery, including curriculum modelling, and will be hosted by a number of Consortia that were successful at the Gateway.
Visit the DCSF 14-19 website for further information and to book a Learning Visit.
Diploma Gateway
As part of its proposals to improve secondary, further and higher
education, the Government is introducing 14 specialised Diplomas covering all
sectors of the economy. From 2008, the first five Diplomas will be ready for
teaching.
Find out more.
14 to 19 Implementation
Plan
This Implementation Plan sets out how the Department for Children,
Schools and Families intends to implement the proposals contained in the 14 to
19 Education and Skills White Paper (described further down this page).
It comprises three main parts:
Access the 14 to 19 Implementation Plan, or read the press notice accompanying its publication. For full background and details on the 14 to 19 reforms, visit the DCSF 14 to 19 Gateway.
Summer term 2007 newsletter now available
The latest edition of the
14 to 19
education and skills Implementation Update is now available on the 14 to 19
Gateway. The newsletter includes an update on the progress of 14 to
19 reforms, including Diplomas, support for Gateway consortia and the marketing
campaign to support the roll-out of Diplomas. The newsletter is aimed at
everyone with an interest in 14 to 19 reform and is produced on a termly basis.
If you would like to read previous editions of the newsletter, these can also be downloaded from the 14 to 19 Gateway. You can also subscribe to an email alert service, letting you know when the latest edition of the newsletter is available.
14 to 19 Education and Skills White Paper
On 23 February 2005, the Government published the 14 to 19 Education
and Skills White Paper. The White Paper sets out clear proposals for reform,
which build on the strengths of the existing system, that will:
For further information on the 14 to 19 White Paper, please visit the 14 to 19 Gateway.
Electronic copies of the White Paper can be downloaded from the Online Publications site. Hard copies can be ordered from The Stationery Office (TSO) website or by calling their publications line, telephone 0870 600 5522, quoting reference number CM 6476. Please note that the hard copy is a priced publication.
14 to 19 resources on the
Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) Excellence Gateway
Those involved in 14 to 19 education can benefit from a wide range of
valuable resources accessible via the Excellence Gateway, including:
To discover these and more, visit the QIA Excellence Gateway.
Start by typing '14-19' in the search bar, or by choosing 'Browse resources' from the left-hand menu.
Sources: teachers.net with additional materials