To colour in ICT lesson

The Personal Computer an online picture to colour .


If technology should fail here is a verion to print out and colour

Simple On line drawing tools

These online drawing tools have pictures and shapes to colour rather than free drawing. Basic Mouse skills are required. I shall be using these with my M8/Entry1 Autistic students . ABCya! Paint
Drag the pictures from the side bar and choose the paint tin from the paint tools below the frame. You can also colour in shapes which are on the left hand side bar




Colouring bugs from Poisson Rouge
NOW HAVE TO REGISTER FIRST 14.01.15


TheColour.com



And for those students with very poor mouse control
from Help Kidz learn a free drawing activity.NOW A FEE PAYING SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE 14.01.15


Here are some simple drawing tools for students using Switches

and from Paupnet simple drawing with switch or mouse



From NGFL Switch colouring






For a full list of drawing and painting tools visit


Webtool4u2use

Why Recyle ?

To introduce the topic of Recycling and Managing Waste

Why Recycle? a PowerPoint aimed at Entry 1/2 learners available to download from My Box net






A card quiz linked to the PowerPoint PDF available to download from My Box net.








For other resources see my blog entries on Recycling

Dangers in the Kitchen

30/10/15,sorry to say some of the links have been removed as they are no longer available - these have been checked



link no longer works but have left the image




Disaster Kitchen from Harcourt school (needs shock wave)



 working April 2020
Dangers in the Kitchen from Sensory World  




 April 2020 link updated and working
Fire Safety Pack from Widgit includes Kitchen Safety Requires COMMUNICATION IN PRINT to download

Cleaner Hands

Here are some resources for teaching hand washing to students with a learning disability.

From the BBC learning Zone, for young people with a severe learning difficulty (Milestone 8) Dirty Hands- a short animated film show a young man eating crisps with dirty hands.


Also from the BBC learning Zone (an Entry 3 resource)

A film :

The importance of Hand washing in Food Hygiene

Hand washing posters from Teachers Underground (Entry level)




Primary section of the Carex site has some good resources on hand washing You will need to register before viewing the resources.

Germs don't like soap animated film (shows vomiting!)


Three hand washing videos,although none are exactly what I wanted
hand washing on You tube

hand washing on Video jug

hand washing challenge

For further links and resources view my blog entries Clean Hands and More Clean hands

food hygiene

Family learning has a list of useful Food games to help teach food hygiene


Scenario cards from Food a Fact of Life
A series of questions with answers
e.g. What would you do if you needed to got to the toilet while cooking ?

Food a Fact of Life
has a series of PowerPoint on Food Hygiene Food contamination suitable for entry 3. A bit wordy but has all the information.

TES Schools Award

I’ve just been to the TES Schools Award held in London on 8^th July. I thought it was a great occasion . The TES invited some of their contributors and as I’ve uploaded quite a number of resources I was invited along.

The TES awards were hosted by Rory Bremner who entertained us with some sharp and witty comedy with a few up to the minute jokes at The News of The World’s expense.

Rory Bremner commented on a recent programme he had made for Radio 4 ADHD and me . It is still available on the I player and well worth a listen.

Other SEN highlights included the award to Beverley Evans from Communication 4 all for her outstanding contribution to the TES website.She has contributed 275 resources which have been viewed 2,559,485 times.

Outstanding Special Needs School of the Year was won by

The New School at West Heath, Sevenoaks, Kent

for their pioneering therapeutic centre: Heart.

The TES F.E awards (previously the Star awards) are up next and its not too late to nominate someone -closing date Friday 15 July

A lesson on Money

A lesson on money Entry 1. Time - 40minute

Aim : to get better at reading and recording money values and coins.

A game on the interactive whiteboard to start

Recognising coins up to £2.00 from Crick web



A work sheet on coin recognition - Match the values

Writing money amounts practice- use a small whiteboard, paper or a large calculator (for those that don't use a pen) . Use the money values from the Bingo game

Bingo game (uses Java to open)

IFL membership fees

Many Further Education teachers have withheld their IFL membership fees this year .
Following discussions with trade unions and employers, the Institute for Learning (IfL) has issued a statement setting out the agreements reached. For those who teach under 28 hours membership is no longer a requirement.
Membership fees at a a reduced rate of £68 for two years have been agreed and should be paid by Friday 22 July 2011
Further information from the IFL website

Facebook for The Grid 2

Smartbox has announced the launch of

Facebook for The Grid 2 .

The grids are easy to understand and can be used straight away – all you need is a Facebook account.(and be a user of The Grid 2!)