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Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Summer Term Competition
8 May - 1 August, 2012
Win the chance for your class to meet Dr. Jane Goodall!
Roots & Shoots is the education programme of the world famous primatologist and wildlife campaigner Dr Jane Goodall. Central to Jane’s beliefs is that every child or individual can make a difference every day to the planet in which they...
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Schools Storyonics Story-Telling Competition
18 May - 31 July, 2012
Competition is for whole class (all years)
A Class Story-Writing Competition for all schools – UK and overseas. Entrants are divided into two categories – pupils aged 5-11.
All schools submitting a story receive a Free Storyonics for PC/Whiteboard for the whole class... 
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Free seminars from the British Council
Comenius application webinars and surgeries
Applying for funding for 2013-14 from the British Council’s Comenius programme? Attend one of our face to face events or an online seminar to help you with your application. For more information, see
http://www.britishcouncil.org/comeni 
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VC User Group awards 2012
Celebrating the use of videoconferencing in schools and colleges to enhance teaching and learning
Have you used videoconferencing this year at your school or college? Would you like to share what you’ve been doing and enter the Janet VC User Group Awards 2012?
The categories for this year’s awards are: Best collaboration... 
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EXCLUSIVE TO WEST MIDLANDS SCHOOL - Make Time to Change - competition with fantastic prizes
Get pupils talking about mental health and enter our inspiring, curriculum-led schools competition.
Exclusive to West Midlands senior schools only, get your pupils thinking about mental health, and addressing the stigma and bullying issues that surround it, with these amazing resources. Sign up for your free teacher toolkit and you will...
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Animals in Primary Education Reframed
‘ANIMAL AWARE’ SCHOOLS
For details about the national recognition scheme, please contact APER
enquiry@animalsreframed.co.uk 
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Streamline the UCAS statement process with new Reference software
Kesgrave High School in Ipswich has developed a new Sixth Form management tool to streamline the annual UCAS application process. Known as ‘Reference’ the software provides a central database where subject and tutor references can be entered,...
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Great opportunity for Yr 5 & 6 to take part in a debating competition
Enter by Wed 27th for a chance to go to Birmingham on the 12th July
Would you like to come to our great all expenses paid fishtival!
I just wanted to let you know that we are on the look-out for entries to the Year 6 Big Fish Debate – this all expenses paid trip is on the 12th July to the ICC...
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Use of Video Games by Teachers
To all , please can you help in my research by completing the following survey. It will only take a couple of minutes from your busy schedules. Thanks…….. :-)
link are for teachers https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SherryTeachers 
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Free assembly!
Street Child of Sierra Leone is currently offering free assemblies in celebration of the first ever Sierra Leone marathon!
Street Child is offering free assemblies to educate children about life for young people in Sierra Leone.
If you are interested or would like to find out more, please contact us on schools@street-child.co.uk ...
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Emotional intelligence training days
Remove the internal emotional conflicts that stop you succeeding
R.P.D.Consultants is offering a limited number of zero fee introduction days of their student engineering course.Often students are told or know what to do to become a success in school at subjects and in life but something still holds them...
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HASTAC Announces New Teacher Mastery and Feedback Badge Competition
HASTAC is proud to announce a new Teacher Mastery and Feedback Badge Competition. The new Competition—held in conjunction with the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition
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HASTAC Announces New Teacher Mastery and Feedback Badge Competition HASTAC is proud to announce a new Teacher Mastery and Feedback Badge Competition. The new Competition—held... 
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Voice your opinion on school trips
Free service for teachers to find and review school trips and visits
Schoolvisit.co.uk is conducting a nationwide survey into school trip destinations.
Add your review (good or bad) for any recent visits and help improve the experience for colleagues across the UK. 
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Flame Followers - only 2 days left to nominate your school for the chance to carry the Olympic Torch during the Olympic Torch Relay in 2012
This is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity -Register now at http://www.schoolsportweek.org/FlameFollowers_Register.aspx
To celebrate the epic journey of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, your pupils can join us as Flame Followers and join in the celebrations during the Olympic Torch Relay.
All you have to do is Register for Flame Followers...
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Charity Willing to give talks on Law
Justice in paraguary
Just in paraguay is a charity that fight the injustice that so many poor families are forced to suffer in paraguay.
They are more than willing to give an assembly to students about the cause and may be very useful for A Level... 
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Fully funded place on Quest Overseas Project Team up for grabs by winner of the Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots Individual Endeavour Award
Roots & Shoots is the education programme of the world famous primatologist and wildlife campaigner Jane Goodall.
Each year the programme awards one student the prestigious Roots & Shoots Individual Endeavour Award.
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Live online interview with top teaching author
Live interview with author of several top teaching books - get your questions answered on air
Register now for free online event with Julia Thompson at
http://www.classroom-expert.com 
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RNLI E-card Competition
Less than a month to go for your pupils to enter our E-card competition
What will your pupils be doing this Christmas? RNLI lifeboat crew will be on call throughout the Christmas holidays, risking their own lives to save lives at sea.
This year we’re asking pupils to design a new Christmas card,... 
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A survey for teachers - Girls’ & boys’ academic conduct and achievement
We would like to invite all teachers in England to take part in a current nationwide research project run by the School of Psychology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England.
We are conducting a short online survey entitled... 
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Teacher Training: Amnesty International: Speak Free!
Celebrate 50 years of human rights campaigning and the right to freedom of expression with Amnesty International UK!
Amnesty is offering free teacher training for teachers interested in finding out how to get the most out of... 
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Link to London Primary School Wanted
Plan for city / countryside exchange
I am a teacher at a small primary school in Cornwall and I am looking to create a link between our school and an inner-city school, preferably in London.
We would be looking for our year 5 and 6 pupils to develop ongoing communications... 
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Fancy linking up with a school in sunny Cornwall?
Foundation Stage classes’ would like to establish a link with a culturally different school in the UK.
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I am one of (soon to be three) Foundation Teachers in a large (for Cornwall) primary school. We have been accredited as an International School and we follow the International Primary Curriculum to teach our Foundation subjects.... 
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Kagan Cooperative Learning
Free tuition for trainee teachers!
‘Free Course’ fees available to trainee teachers. Are you a teaching student looking to learn more about Kagan Cooperative Learning? At the Kagan-UK Summer Academy workshops (Thursday 26th and Friday 27th May 2011) we have 5 student teacher...
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Join NCB Schools Network for free; plus take our survey and get a taster pack of education resources
If you’ve organised an assembly for Anti-Bullying Week using an Anti-Bullying Alliance teacher’s briefing or developed playground activities with help from Play England then you’ve worked with project
NCB is the leading national charity which supports children, young people, families and those who work with them. We have been working with education professionals for more than 40 years and for the first time we are bringing together our...
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Community Education Awards 2011 - Open for entries
Entries are now being accepted for the Community Education Awards 2011
The Community Education Awards is an annual celebration of schools’ efforts to help children to become positive community members.
High schools, primary schools and pupil referral units from across the UK can enter the Awards... 
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Gifted and Talented Education
A short survey for teachers and headteachers
I am enrolled on a MA in Gifted Education trying to establish what are the key factors that make a primary school a nurturing school for able and gifted children. I would greatly appreciate your input in this matter. Please complete my questionnaire....
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Were you a Best Practice Research Scholarship Award holder?
Teachers’ engagement with research: the experiences of BPRS award holders
Between 2000 and 2004, the DfES funded the Best Practice Research Scholarship programme (BPRS) to promote teachers’ engagement in small-scale classroom-based research. If you were awarded a Best Practice Scholarship, we would like to invite...
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Cut Films competition
Film competition for under 24s
Cut Films challenges young people to research, write and produce 2-minute films to persuade their friends not to smoke. The focus is on peer to peer communication, empowering young people to decide what messages work best for them and we...
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Behaviour Factsheet
New Behaviour Factsheet from Teacher Support Network
Poor behaviour and discipline are growing problems in schools. 90 per cent of teachers who responded to the 2010 Behaviour Survey from Teacher Support Network and Parentline Plus, with promotional assistance from the National Union of Teachers...
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Help save Kent and win a Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots Award!
www.rootsnshoots.org.uk
Kent is widely known as “The Garden of England” because of its abundance of orchards and hop gardens. However, in our Dustbowl Mission, the future of Kent is under threat…
Chrono-bot R00T5 has travelled forward in time and Kent...
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Behaviour Survey 2010
Tell us what behaviour is really like in schools.
Do you think discipline is getting worse in schools? Are lessons more about crowd control than teaching? Do you believe more should be done to improve the way children and young people behave?
Maybe you think behaviour is not...
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Educational charity in need of assistance
Need help tailoring resources and training mentors
We are a mentoring scheme within an educational charity in inner city London. We have very limited funds and all of our mentors are volunteers. We focus mainly on English and Maths and the girls who are mentored with us are between the ages...
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Pearson Education Research Project
Hi all,
My name is Jessica Chan and I’m currently working as an intern at Pearson Education. The research project that I’m working on involves looking at how teachers receive information about teaching resources. I... 
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Free Homework Calendar For Your School
Show students all their homework on one page
I created a simple homework calendar to show students all their homework on one page at Henry Compton School. Teachers can write short homework questions, upload worksheets and set deadlines. Parents can keep track of their child's homework.
It's... 
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International Volunteering
Lattitude Global Volunteering (formerly GAP Activity Projects) is a UK registered youth development charity that has been organising international volunteering opportunities for young people worldwide since 1972. Every year we send more than...
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Volunteer Mandarin Language Assistants
Lattitude Global Volunteering (formerly GAP Activity Projects) is a UK registered youth development charity that has been organising international volunteering opportunities for young people worldwide since 1972.
Every year, we help...
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Your views: Leadership, personality and your well-being
A survey for my MA(Ed) dissertation
Hi,
I am currently a head of department in a large secondary school, and also completing my MA(Ed) dissertation. I am interested in your opinions and views concerning your employment as a teacher and your well-being, and would be... 
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Subscribe for FREE to The Teaching and Learning Review
a new blog to share successful ideas, policies and practice with teachers
www.theteachingandlearningreview.co.uk aims to share ideas, plans and practice.
With a new idea to share each week, it is easy and FREE for teachers to subscribe to keep up to date with the latest ideas in teaching and learning... 
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AccessArt
Support for creativity and making in school
The AccessArt Studio Project aims to inspire, enable, promote and support making through simple, effective and sustainable means. By working together, as a community with shared needs and interests, the Studio Project should help create...
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Animal Handling Workshops
Fun and educational
Check out the animalz take over website!
www.animalztakeover.co.uk To get a selection of animals to visit your school for children and teachers to look at, touch and hold... 
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Regional Big Bang Fairs - across the UK this summer
The Big Bang took place in March 2010, and hosted the finals of the National Science and Engineering Competition, enabling students who have participated through a range of initiatives to come togethe
The Big Bang is getting Bigger….
For more details about each event and how to register to attend please go to: http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/map.cfm Regional fair dates... 
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Comic Art Masterclasses in Schools
From Kev F Sutherland
Kev F Sutherland is a highly motivational workshop leader and practicing artist and entertainer. He delivers energetic and informative Comic Art Masterclasses that feed into individual subjects and cross curriculum links including Boys Into...
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Financial Advice
A TEACHERS GUIDE TO BANKS AND OTHER LENDING INSTITUTIONS
It is estimated by the FSA that nearly 2m people in the UK have been sold the wrong series of financial products by lenders over the last 10 years.
This includes approximately 35,000 teachers. Though the regulations... 
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Climate Change Innovation event
Get involved! For teachers, parents and children in Greater Manchester
All are welcome to our first fun climate change and carbon innovation free event for Greater Manchester schools and communities, at the Zion Centre, Hulme. 22 April from 4 - 7 pm. Refreshments provided.
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CEWE Photobook competition
A lucky winner will win 100 free year books for their school worth £26.99 each!
TES Connect have teamed up with CEWE Photobook to give away 100 free photo books worth £26.99 each – all you have to do is enter your details via this link (
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cewe )...
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Climate Change Innovation event
For teachers, parents and children in Greater Manchester to get involved
Climate Change Innovation event at the Zion Centre in Hulme, Manchester, 22 April 2010 from 4 - 7 pm.
Get involved! This is an opportunity for teachers, parents and children to change the world one step at a time, at this fun...
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Cartoon Classroom
An online information resource for those wanting to find tutors in cartooning, sequential art and allied areas of study.
Schools can register on this site to access tutors in their local area who give talks or stage workshops in cartooning and sequential art. These forms of art are growing in popularity and always enthuse a classroom. As well as being attractive...
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New online academic bookstore
Textbookmark.com - New site for lecturers & students in the UK
Textbookmark.com is a new site aiming to be the most useful place on the web to find all the textbooks you need!A lot of students have told us they seek peer recommendation when deciding... 
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Delivering Careers Education
New acreddited PPD unit
From March 2010 London South Bank University is offering a new accredited PPD unit (level 7) to support staff responsible for delivering of careers education in schools and colleges.
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BBC - Money
We want to talk to teachers about it!
Are you motivated by money? Are you paid enough? Are you fulfilled?
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National Survey of School Libraries
National surveys of Primary and of Secondary/Middle/Special/Independent School Libraries
Please help us to build up a full UK picture of school libraries by completing a questionnaire. This work was instigated by the School Libraries Group (SLG) of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and...
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Free books for schools, nurseries, sure start etc!
Usborne books
If i can assist any of you in your schools with Usborne books then please dont hesitate to contact me.
