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As children become more connected and tech-savvy, ensuring their safety online is a top priority for parents. However, with the ever-changing digital landscape, it can be overwhelming to keep up. This guide offers quick, practical tips and handy tools to help you keep your children safe online and navigate online safety confidently, whether it’s managing…
Education North Tyneside, the school improvement service for North Tyneside Council, has announced their participation in the TechNExt fringe festival with its event, LEGO Robotics for Business. This interactive workshop aims to connect local organisations with the incredible global STEM programme, FIRST LEGO League, a robotics and life-skills competition for 9-16 year olds. As the…
We are really excited to have been making some new connections in the last couple of weeks. We have now launched our LEGO Robotics for Business programme and are looking out for North East businesses to engage with. We’ve already been talking to lots of companies and organisations with STEM links, and now have events,…
After some really successful trial events, we are delighted to launch our LEGO® Robotics for Business service this week. The scheme is designed to offer a fantastic team-building experience to north east businesses while also engaging them in STEM education in our region. Events are built on our hugely successful FIRST® LEGO® League programme, where…
We have added another brand new unit of work to our collection, to further improve the way coding is taught at the beginning of Key Stage 2. We’d recommend this unit for Year 3 students. Starting from Scratch adopts the PRIMM method of teaching computer science. Research suggests that this method lays strong foundations in…
We have added a brand new unit of work to our Key Stage 2 computer science collection! Kodu – An independent project, does what the title suggests and gives your class the opportunity to unleash their full creative and coding potential with Kodu Game Lab. Students will work independently to plan, design, test and evaluate…
As part of our scheme of work, we include lessons from Common Sense Education’s Digital Citizenship curriculum. We have now cross-referenced the excellent content of these lessons with the Education for a Connected World framework, which describes the Digital knowledge and skills that children and young people should have the opportunity to develop at different ages…