Issue 3

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Summer Term Overview

This term I have been involved with three schools, working with staff to create web pages using Front Page, and with children using Publisher. I have also undertaken a major project with a local art gallery to create an educational resource on the Internet.

Art from India

We have many local art galleries which don’t have their material on the Internet, which would be of educational use to our pyramid of schools. One such gallery is the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at UEA. Part of their gallery contains a collection of paintings and statues from India. As well as providing a useful resource for various topics in Art, such as claywork, portraiture and use of colour, it also provides a resource for Geography (KS1 – a country overseas & KS2 – a country that is less economically developed) and Hinduism. The web site is called Art from India, and it has two reading levels.

Dennington

As well as two training sessions to help them develop their own school web site using Front Page, I have worked with groups of Year 5 & 6 children to create maths challenges about their school environment for younger children, and also the history of the school. The Web pages for Dennington’s new school Web Site is now up and running. Make sure you visit the pupil’s pages, where a link can be found to their maths and school history pages.

Sir Robert Hitcham

Year 5 & 6 children have been creating Web sites using the high school computers on the Tudors and Ancient Egypt.

Wickham Market

I have been working with the KS1 ICT co-ordinator on the intricacies of Front Page, Paint Shop Pro, GIFs and JPEGs at Wickham Market. It also gave me an opportunity to work with Reception children, with whom I have had little experience. She has now created a Wickham Market KS1 Web.

Next Term

In September I would like to visit each school again to discuss with them individually how I might be best used as a resource. In the academic year I hope to:

continue to work with staff in helping them on building school Web sites

encourage staff to develop their own curriculum resources

work with children to develop their confidence in building their own Web sites

develop more pyramid educational resources

Already in the pipeline is Churches in India, working on that cross-curricular theme, so that the Web site would be useful in more than one subject. Other ideas could be working with Ipswich Museum to bring some of their exhibits (such as Romans) on-line. Any ideas would be very much appreciated.