by Carol Rainbow | Sep 19, 2019 | Curriculum
‘Is Seeing Believing?’ is the title of a new lesson shared by Common Sense Media: “The web is full of photos, and even videos, that are digitally altered. And it’s often hard to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s...
by Carol Rainbow | Sep 19, 2019 | Curriculum
Studying Picasso gives children an introduction to cubism and offers fun with abstract drawing and painting. Tate Kids has an introduction to the works of Pablo Picasso, taking a look at three different images. Ducksters offers a short biography, assigning his art...
by Andy Campbell | Sep 18, 2019 | Competitions, Curriculum
Our First Great New-Style Competition! Our first exciting competition of this year is to create an Online Safety Rules Poster for Classroom Display. We think that this challenge will provide a great start to the the new computing competition year; it will...
by Andy Campbell | Sep 18, 2019 | Competitions, Curriculum
Exciting news about our new-style competitions and our latest offering for all 123ICT competition followers! As you know, 123ICT have for a number of years provided many stimulating and interesting computing challenges for our schools, in the form of our...
by Carol Rainbow | Sep 14, 2019 | Curriculum
Studying Piet Mondrian is probably best started at Tate Kids: “Piet Mondrian is a Dutch artist best known for his abstract paintings. Art that is abstract does not show things that are recognisable such as people, objects or landscapes. Instead artists use colours,...
by Carol Rainbow | Sep 14, 2019 | Curriculum
Teaching media literacy is becoming more important by the day. We live in a world of Fake news, fake social media, review sites with fake reviews, false websites offering wonderfully impossible free iphones, tablets, Xboxes, etc. This all forms part of today’s rich...
