Scoilnet – Results

Suggestions for use: Use the literacy toolkit as a guide to plan your lessons or print off as a booklet for your students to read in English.

Suggestions for use: Use this blank slate as a way of allowing your students to become free thinkers. Allow them to use the building blocks to create a world where their story will happen with characters that will boost their imagination skills and childlike adventures. Once students have their Minecraft world build, next stage is to allow students to share their worlds with each other along with their future ideas. Once shared, they need to keep their worlds safe by introducing their world in their creative story writing exercise before it vanishes from memory forever.

Suggestions for use: Use in maths for students to compare units ans volume of block sizes in relation to one another/ Fractions.

Suggestions for use: Can your students create a movie-clip like this one? The challenge is on....First, allow your pupils to watch this video produced by a pupil to set your expectations. Divide the class into mini groups, each with specific roles (recorder, timer, voice over, picture organiser, drawer...) Time will be needed to produce these illustrations. Allow time for your pupils to video their clips and voice overs. Plenary: Movie time: watch your pupils clips together whereby pupils provide feedback on "what went well" and "even better if" (WWW / EBI)

Suggestions for use: Very topical for the upcoming Olympic Games. As a class, read together in harmony the first page about the Ancient Olympics. Ask the class to summarise the article into three sentences (no more, no less), then ask the class to summarise the article into three words. (no more, no less). Get class into groups of four, compare words and as a group, they must decide on the one word that summarises the entire article. (no more, no less than one word) Print out the dated cards; show the class the ready made cards. Divide class into groups of four. Give each member of the group a role to play; researcher, writer,timer/organiser, presenter, creative artist. Provide students with paper cards and thread ; ask groups to create a threaded timeline linking the history of the Olympic games together. Plenary: students present their timelines. Alternative plenary: students write down three things they learnt from the lesson on a sticky twitter note and stick a twitter board.

Suggestions for use: Starter; ask the class to brainstorm the gaming competitions that take place during the Olympic games in pairs. Provide pairs with strips of paper. Set the timer on the board to 4 minutes. (Aim of task: Want to see which pair of students can get the most amount of gaming events that take place in the Olympic games. Rule of the game: Pair of students can only give the name of the event if they are the first pair to have four hands up) The pair of students that have their hands up first. State the name of their event. They write it onto their strip of paper and place it into a box/bag that the teacher has at the front of the room. They are awarded a point. (A student can be recorded the points so that the teacher has full control over the task supervision) (Note: This activity is FAST paced under time constrict but also want to see how many events students can guess within the time also.) Once pair of students put their strip into the box, students can then put their hands up again to be the next at calling out their event....this continues until time is up. Task 1: Demonstrate the ready made poster of the Athletics Event. From the box of strips from the starter task, provide each pair with a distinct Olympic Event. Explain to the class, that you expect the class to create a similar poster for their event. They can come up to analyse the poster only ONCE. They must research the Olympic event given to them. Then, together manage the information by displaying onto A3 sheet.

Suggestions for use: Starter: State the "Did you know" maths facts about the Olympic Games. Task 1: Patterns Challenge with the Olympic Games Rings. Plenary: Maths Challenge Questions about the Olympic Games.

Suggestions for use: Building vocabulary for the Olympic Games. Starter: Word search on the Olympic games. Read article about the Ancient Olympic Games. Challenge class to work in pairs to read the fill in the blank reading activity. Then, read the fill in the blank activity together. In pairs, the students can try to fill in the blanks with the appropriate words. Return as class to correct.

Suggestions for use: Use in class to encourage critical and analyzing skills through the use of the video compilation of previous contestants. Freeze the video throughout and ask students to guess what country the contestants are from and Why? After the video, get students to complete a pair work by challenging them to write an opinion on the contestants they have just seen. (3-5 minutes) Must be monitored before class discussion occurs. Ask three students to share their opinions. Allow class to discuss whether they agree/ disagree with the opinion. Write the adjectives used onto the board. Task 2: Complete the Eurovision Quiz by keeping students in the same pairs. Award points in similar format to Eurovision competition. Provide students with new scrabbled words to unscramble. Students can use a dictionary. Ask students to write down any extra words they find relatable to the Eurovision. The lesson plan provides debatable options for students to write debates in groups, on own, topics and how you complete the class voting on who wins your debate. Use worksheet provided as on link also.

Suggestions for use: As the twitter conversation progressed, a need was highlighted. Practice of handwriting cannot be left up to the English teacher alone. In this case, the English teacher allowed the pupil to sit their exams using an iPad so that assessment was accurately depicting the pupils ability. Secondly, the teacher emailed all the corresponding teachers who work with the pupil to gather ideas and strategies collectively. The form teacher had an essential role as the form teacher checks in with the student daily on a 10 minute basis. Ultimately, for handwriting to improve, everyone in the pupils educational environment needs to sing off the same hymn sheet and become advocates for the pupil to become persistent with the challenge they are facing. Directly instruct students to be aware of using case sensitives. Practice writing letters using guided worksheets. Try using different size lined paper or coloured paper. Practice writing letters in a multi-sensory environment to relieve the monotonous factor.

Suggestions for use: Laminate all pages in the resource and cut up into sixteen individual cards. This activity is especially suitable for pupils who may not be able to write answers but can match the names of the Halloween characters.

Suggestions for use: Choose between four themes - adventure, fantasy, Sci-Fi and scrambler. Choose a class level and write in your classes name/ group name.Spin all four wheels to get the title of the groups writing task.

Suggestions for use: In the mainstream classroom and in SEN for aany children who have difficulty coping with the reading levels required in textbooks, reference books etc.

Suggestions for use: Use to teach and reinforce the technique and concept of using similes. Cut up the sentences of the last verse and have children work in pairs to put the sentences in the correct order. This assesses their ability to identify words that rhyme. Alternatively, delete the second part of the the simile in each verse and have children compose their own replacement similes.