Education City (Throughout Primary)

What is it?

Education City is a platform which is used in school to enhance our lessons and improve learning.  Teachers can create personalised areas with tasks for their students which are know as ´My City´.  Within these cities the teacher can allocate a variety of resources for the students to be completed as ´Classwork´or ´Homework´.  It is also a great tool for parents and students to revise specific learning objectives.  Using the search tool you or your child can search for content and can learn or practice any objective in English, Maths, Computing or Science.

How can we access it?

Education City can be accessed via their website:  https://ec1.educationcity.com/ 

What is expected of the pupils?

At present, Education City is used mainly in school and not as homework, therefore, we do not have expectations as to what the students should be doing at home.  We do recommend that they make the most of this great platform to study or reinforce learning whenever they can at home.

Below you will find a written case study which explains how we use this platform in primary in much more detail.  We also have a link to a webinar given by Victoria Esler which explains more about innovations in our school.  

https://www.edmentuminternational.com/webinars/implementation-of-educationcity-at-laude-newton-college/ 

TT Rockstars

What is it?

In either paper form or online, Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice.

Each week concentrates on a different times table, with a recommended consolidation week for rehearsing the tables that have recently been practised every third week or so.

This format has very successfully boosted times tables recall speed for hundreds of thousands of pupils over the last 8 years in over 14,000 schools - both primary and secondary - worldwide.

How can we access it?

      TT Rockstars  can be accessed via their  website:  https://ttrockstars.com/ 

What is expected of the pupils?

    This is the first year that we are using TT Rockstars in primary.  We are asking the pupils to                practice as much as they can at home.  Their successes will be celebrated here in school with              monthly trophies awarded to the best class in each year group along with a special award for              whoever manages to get to the top of the leader board!

Vicens Vives Digital (Used in Year 4, 5 & 6)

What is it?

This is a platform that includes a digital book in the subjects Spanish, Valencian and Social Sciences (in Spanish)

Using this platform, we can access the book contents and other additional activities.

How can we access it?

Each pupil will have a digital license and the School will provide them with a username and password. The application Edubook3D should be downloaded from the catalogue. We can also access the platform online using the following link http://ww1.vicenvivesdigital.com/ 

What is expected of the pupils?

Pupils will use the book as a class book, complete activities both at home and at school and will have the opportunity to enjoy this learning tool in the areas of Spanish, Valencian and Social Sciences

What are the tasks like?

Pupils can study, highlight, complete activities and check results under the teacher’s supervision; they may also use the platform for revision purposes.

For checking and marking completed activity they should enter the section named “calificaciones”.

ITE (learning environments) (throughout the School) 

What is it?

be used throughout the rest of their school career. The platform can be accessed through the following link.www.itenm.net/celaudenc Any web browser is acceptable What is expected of the pupils?

Pupils will be introduced to the activities during classes and may revisit sporadically throughout the year. However, the recommended use is for regular practice at home at the pupils own pace.

What are the tasks like?

The platform guides the pupil through individualized learning programmes designed to consolidate and enhance learning. For both Spanish language and Keyboard skills regular short sessions are far more effective than longer sessions at irregular intervals.

Cognitive School is a platform that improves skills in reading comprehension, spellings and consolidates the knowledge acquired in Spanish Language. In addition, students in Year 4 and Year 5 will also develop their typing ability through the keyboard operating program.

How can we access it?

The Platform is introduced in Year 2. The School will provide the pupil with a username and password, which will

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aim to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students.

Google Classroom combines Google Drive for assignment creation and distribution, Google Docs, Sheets and Slides for writing, Gmail for communication, and Google Calendar for scheduling. Students can be invited to join a class through a private code, or automatically imported from a school domain. 

Each class creates a separate folder in the respective user's Drive, where the student can submit work to be a graded by a teacher. 

Teachers can monitor the progress for each student, and after being graded, teachers can return work along with comments. 

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