LGfL is redeveloping its website to make it easier to find information about all the services available to new customers and for existing customers to utilise our open access resources and training. This will include updated navigation and changes to the overall design, but we will keep frequently used links the same, such as staff mail and training. As well as making them visible and easily accessible from the home page.
We are planning that the new website will go live during the summer term 2022.
Google for Education
On Tour
Google for Education is on Tour, coming to a Reference School near you!
Pleaseregisterfor these free professional development experiences to see Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks in action. Hear stories from their distinguished schools and visit classes for demonstrations of best digital practice in education. They’ll have Google experts conducting training and presenting hands-on sessions with the Google tools.
Bite-sized Challenge
Teachers, Google have a fun bite-sized challenge for you - #22DigitalDays- 22 tasks to engage you and your students in digital dabbling; they can be adapted as you see fit. Get stuck in and share out these cool tips, tricks and resources to use in the classroom and beyond.
Google and Greenpeace
Join Google and Greenpeace for a fun, interactive, LIVE lesson! This Earth Day, you and your students will be inspired to contribute towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 🌍 They have some great resources to share too!
A once-in-a-lifetime moment rather than a syllabus staple, the Platinum Jubilee presents an exciting opportunity for learning and taking part in a key historical event.
Therefore we have created templates for use in just2easy, Busy Things have curated a whole range of different activities for the jubilee (find by visiting the special events tab/jubilee), and Tablet Academy has created activity cards for both the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and the 2022 Commonwealth Games being hosted in Birmingham for Adobe Creative Cloud Express.
Women in Computing Redevelopment
Our Women in Computing resource which celebrates the unique positive contribution of women to the development of computing in the UK has recently undergone a redevelopment.
The resource contains interviews with experts in the field and has sections on WW2 codebreaking, Cold War Computing, Pushing the Boundaries and Inspiring the Next Generation.
We are always keen to hear how teachers have used our resources and how we can improve them. Emailcontentsupport@lgfl.netto tell us more!
SafeSkills
LGfL has recently launched SafeSkills – an interactive, diagnostic online safeguarding teaching tool linked to the RSHE curriculum framework mentioned in KCSIE, enabling teachers to monitor progress throughout the year, It's FREE and available to ALL schools!
The idea of Hive Hackers is to give teachers step by step guidance through the basics of teaching coding. It will show you how you can teach sequencing, loops, conditionals, debugging, and much more besides. It includes detailed lesson plans and teacher guides and assumes no prior knowledge of coding whatsoever.
Hive hackers originated in the U.K. Channel Islands as an initiative by professional services firm Price Waterhouse Coopers ( PwC) as part of their corporate social responsibility programme. They wrote the resources to work seamlessly with the Just2easy coding tools as these were already in use in the Islands. In 2022, permission was kindly given to distribute the Hive Hackers resources to all Just2easy users.
You may well want to start with the "supporting documents", which include a detailed scheme of work.
ReadingZone Live BookClub Events
Join the ReadingZone Bookclub programme of free virtual author events this term. The bookclub is aimed at classrooms keen to develop a love of reading and is aimed at ages 5-11 years.
Mystery, History and Smugglers with Annabelle Sami Friday 29th April, 2pm - 2.45pm For Years 3-6 (ages 8+)
Revisit Journey to the River Sea with Emma Carroll's sequel Friday 10th June, 2pm - 2.45pm For Years 5 & 6
Phil Earle introduces When the Storm Rages Friday 17th June, 1.45pm - 2.30pm For Years 5, 6 & 7 (Please note the earlier time for this event).
To sign up for any of these free events, and for more details, email info@readingzone.com
Are you interested in joining our Immersive Learning Pilot? Please get in touch via contentsupport@lgfl.net.
If you want to know more about the pilot before committing, then watch the "Teacher Support Sessions" featuring the latest developments and examples of the SandboxAR Platform in action.
We have also started to publish some Impact Case Studies. These were filmed in some of the pilot schools (Bonner Primary, Rockliffe Manor Primary and Lawford Church of England Primary) showing their use of SandboxAR to teach topics such as Ancient Greece, Ancient Benin and Polar Exploration.
We are super excited to announce that a Maths Week London TeachMeet is being hosted for 2022 – bringing teachers together to share good practice, practical innovations and personal insights into teaching and learning.
The theme for this TeachMeet is maths and is an invitation to talk about anything you’ve seen/experienced that works well (or perhaps doesn’t). You might just have a question that you’d like to ask, or something that you’d like some feedback on. In any case, it’s an opportunity to soak up all the ideas and talk to like-minded teachers.
It will be a chance to share with colleagues a range of different ideas and take something new back to your own classroom.
There are 3 options to consider if you want to come along:
Online training events are free for all school staff to attend (*with the exception of the Designated Safeguarding Lead Training which we offer to LGfL customers only). Please click the button below to see the extensive training programme available; with new and different IncludEd sessions to pick from. (You should have also recently received a full listing of all the training sessions for April and May).
