Tuesday, 31 January 2012

On line Shop

 Currently  newhamteamspirit is taking a short break Jan 2020
Entry 1 students at Newham College have opened an on line shop as part of their enterprise project.They have a shop on the website etsy.com where they sell greetings cards.


www.etsy.com/shop/newhamteamspirit

Learners design cards and then add them to their shop on the site.The learners pay a small fees and then wait for their orders. Items are then packed and posted out .
The project has been a good way to improve ICT and communication skills.

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Early Addition



Practice additon using single digit numbers from Sheppard Software


Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Knowing how to use ICT safely

Here are some resources for teaching about keeping personal information safe everyday and on the internet.

Safe
A widgit resource from Childnet about Personal Information.



Two short films from BBC Learning Zone which can be used to discuss the information given out and the consequence

online safety part 1

online safety part 2

Personal Information Powerpoints and workbook about information we should share from Communication 4 all ( look under ICT)



Behaving appropriately at Work

Here are some resources for teaching about behaviour and attitude at work forOCR Life and Living Entry 3 unit Behaving appropriately at Work.

Northern Ireland Curriculum

Key stage 3 Education for Employability Book 4 page 4.http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/inclusion_and_sen/mld/employ_ks4_4.pdf

A work sheet which can be used to record appropriate behaviour and attitudes at work


Thema
tic unit : Nothing stays the Samee
Employability .Its up to me Resource 20 : Things to remember page 50,51
2 pages of scenarios to discuss attitude and behaviour at work.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Buses

TES I board
Phase 2 Tricky words


Count us in
Tar heel Reader: We Love buses


A bus joke

A website about buses
Link

Keyboard games

Splat the Clown from Help Kidz Learn
Unfortunately you now need to register before you can play this free games on Help Kidz learn.

Frog Game


Balloon Bang! from Shiny learning

Coin recognition

Some coin recognition activities
from Crickweb


Money snap level 1 from BBC

Sunday, 18 December 2011

Art Competition theme: world music festival


Stay up Late have launched an art competition for anyone with a learning disability.
Closing Date 31st January 2012.

The brief is to come up with an image to use on The Wild Things website. The image will help to launch the next Wild Things compilation featuring new music made by musicians with learning disabilities from around the world.
The image needs to be of an imaginary ‘world music festival’ and will be the main feature of the project on the website, along with a compilation CD.

Further Information here

and Easy read here

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Relationships


Jump Cuts have a new film:

Moving On (Relationships & Sexuality training DVD)

5 real life stories about relationships and sexuality from people with a learning difficulty. The stories cover different issues in relationships:

Michael wants a girlfriend but is stuck in the grey zone.

Phil and Ali are moving in together.

Jo has never talked about it, since it happened.

Anton says it’s just a label.

Dan thinks they’re ready but Sue is not so sure.

Includes a menu of specially devised questions to accompany each story and promote discussion.

Review of the year 2011

Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review