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19/4/08 - Satire on current attitudes in education. This is US-orientated, but the sentiments definitely apply. Take, for example, the introductory paragraph: "All teams must make the state playoffs, and all will win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable."

20/4/08 - Good for improving typing speed and for embedding knowledge of where keys are.

20/4/08 - On the Scout website, these Campfire Skits look like enjoyable ways for children to get into character.

28/6/08 - Links to dozens of maths ICT resources on this great site.

30/5/08 - Simulation, quiz and information text with diagrams - suitable for advanced Year 4+

23/4/08 - A fantastic, animated scale model showing relative sizes of planets and stars.

23/4/08 - Yahoo-powered Search Engine that buys two trees for every 1,000 searches. They offset the carbon whilst providing Yahoo search results - not bad at all.

25/4/08 - Excellent new citizenship site with lesson plans and resources, kids' zone and parents' area. The overarching theme is on engaging with society.

25/4/08 - Seems to work quite well and allows user to remove duplicate results.

28/4/08 - As it says! A well-compiled resource list which also includes notes for teachers' subject knowledge.

27/4/08 - Sentence laboratory (Experiment with writing sentences when given 1, 2 or 3 starting words. The 1 and 2 word games are good for reinforcing the use of capital letters and full stops. The 3 word option gives you the opportunity to work on the accurate use of conjunctions), Sentence Magic (ake a very basic sentence and play around with it in various different ways) plus Clauses and Connectives.