Happy New Year!
LGfL curriculum updates include Tanzii TV's Active Week, our EdTech Hubs Study Tour events, the DTT a chance to get involved in our UDL pilot project and more.
Before we begin with this month's edition of the newsletter we have an important announcement:
LGfL Conference - 24th February 2023
LGfL has added an additional conference this year due to the unprecedented pressures on schools and Multi Academy Trusts.
The LGfL Let's Assemble Conference will be held on 24th February, focusing on safeguarding, cybersecurity, cloud services (including Google and Office 365), digital strategy, and harnessing technology as well as harnessing ICT effectively in the classroom. The conference will also have a Tech Village of key educational suppliers that may be useful to visit!
Please read on for the latest information from the LGfL Team on:
Tanzii TV's "Get Active Week"
EdTech Hubs Spring Study Tours
Digital Transformation Toolkit (DTT)
UDL Pilot Project
Adobe Digital Leader Sessions
I Love Computing Conference
FREE LGfL Training
Recent Curriculum Blogs
LGfL Sponsor Tanzii TV's 'Get Active Week'
The Tanzii TV teamed up with LGfL to LIVE STREAM high-energy fun fitness workouts on YouTube from different primary schools across the nation in January 2023.
Kickstarting the New Year with a BANG, each quick workout focused upon different themes and challenges to re-energise classrooms and to get children thinking about leading a healthy lifestyle. They were aiming to get over 10,000 children active across the week.
Below we have included a link to their YouTube channel where you can get classes taking part even if you missed the live events!
LGfL and EdTech UK are working in partnership to develop communities of practice that provide peer-to-peer support for the effective use of technology for enhancing teaching and learning in schools and colleges.
The next in person Study Tour is:
27th February 2023 1pm to 4:30pm - 'Effective Maths Teaching and Learning Across the Primary Curriculum: Maximising the Role of EdTech' hosted by Cheam Common Junior School, LEO Academy Trust, Worcester Park, Surrey.
Click the button below to email content support to reserve a place on the study tour.
The *new* LGfL Digital Transformation Toolkit (DTT) is now available in beta form for schools and MATs to engage with as part of their own self-assessment on their current stage of digital transformation. It has been designed to identify key criteria to support the successful implementation of digital technologies to effectively support all aspects of a school community.
The toolkit provides automated reporting with a data dashboard of the results, complete with the ability to track change over time. In addition, the report includes automated signposting to high-quality and relevant support material, that will help ensure any school engaging with the toolkit makes further progress and maximises the impact of LGfL services.
LGfL's Univeral Design for Learning (UDL) Pilot Project
We are looking for schools interested in getting involved in our Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Pilot Project. Improving and optimising teaching and learning for all, based on scientific insights into how humans learn.
Do you want to develop understanding and expertise with UDL principles and see practical ways of applying UDL more in your everyday teaching and learning?
The initial meeting will be online on Tuesday 24th January 2023 at 16:00-17:00.
Sign up for Digital Leader Sessions with as many pupils as you like for 90 minute Adobe Express sessions to learn how to create digital media aligned with key calendar themes:
For the first time since 2020, Teach Computing + STEM learning is holding a free face-to-face conference celebrating the subject of computing, and LGfL'S Computing central is very proud to be sponsoring the event.
Confirmed speakers to date are:
Jane Waite - Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre.
Paul Curzon - Queen Mary University, London.
Phil Bagge - Hampshire Inspection and Advisory Service and code-it.co.uk.
Alan Harrison - Author and Educator.
Elli Narewska - The Guardian Foundation.
An LGfL-sponsored TeachMeet.
This day is perfect for both primary and secondary school teachers, STEM Ambassadors and STEM Network partners. If you do attend, be sure to visit the LGfL stand and our Computing leader Bradley Dardis's workshop.
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 increased pressures facing families as the cost of living crisis deepens, schools are likely to have more concerns about how children are cared for.
Sign up to our recently added "Neglect" Training on 20th January at 13:30-15:30 by clicking here.
