12 exciting range of educational titles from EdAlive.
Word Skills KS1, Word Skills KS2, Maths Skills KS1, Maths Skills KS2 part 1, Maths Skills part 2, Reading Success Emergency, Reading Success Intermediate, Words Rock, Volcanic Panic, Baggin the Dragon, Ultimate Maths, Spelling Force, Brochures.

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114 of Sherstons best multi-award winning titles, with unlimited school site licences

THIS IS A TIME LIMITED OFFER, EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND TO 30th OF NOVEMBER 2009 Titles cover virtually the whole curriculum for early years and primary aged children, and come complete with user guides.

Qualifies for purchase with Harnessing Technology Grants.

Titles supplied on a portable external USB hard drive to connect to your PC, allowing you to download and install all or any of the titles onto your computer or network.

XP and Vista compatible.

Titles include:

Early Years:

123 CD V2, ABC-CD V2, All Around the House, Fizzys First Numbers, Fizzys Number Skills, Heres Splodge, Izzys Island, Izzys Story Skills (x 2), Magic Beanbag, Monkeys Ducks and Frogs, Nursery Rhyme Time V2, Paddington Bear Geography and History, Skill Builders x 6, Teddy Bears Picnic, Tizzys Busy Week, Tizzys Toybox V2, Type with Tizzy, Young MacDonalds Farm

ICT:

Alphonsos Spreadsheets, Badger Trails, Bamboozled, BBC Faiths and Celebrations, Broadband Detectives, Charlie Chimps Modelling Party, Crystal Rainforest V2, Digital Discoveries, Easi Keysi, Email Detectives, Flobot, Gomez Returns, Learning about Religion, Millypedia, Mission Control V2, Model Shop, Rain Forest Music, Picture Box, Munch Box, Talking Topics V2, Wizards Apprentice, Web Detectives

Literacy

BBC Magic Pencil, Phonic Clip Art, Storycraft 1, Storycraft 2, LDA Language Cards Interactive Nouns, Verbs and Prepostions & Adjectives, Literacy Bank 3 to 7, Literacy Box R to 2, Oxford Reading Tree Stage 1, 2, 3, 6/7, 8/9 and 10/11.

Mathematics:

Bucket and Spade, Elf Tales, Measure Up, Money Mice, Nature Park, Numeracy Bank 3 to 6, Numeracy Box R to 2, Percy Parker, Space Station Alert, Whats the Time Mr Wolf?

Science:

Science Simulations 1,2 and 3, Operation Minibeast, Science Express x 2, Future is Wild

Geography:

Where in the World is Barnaby Bear, Barnaby Bear Tours the UK, Map Detectives Rural and Urban Mystery

History:

Magic Grandad Great Fire, Homes, Toys and Seaside Holidays, Arcventure Romans, Vikings and Egyptians, Time Detectives Victorian Mystery

Semerc:

Alphabet Track, Eye Track, Idiom Track, Number Track, Phoneme Track, Spell Track and Word Track

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This engaging book shows teachers how to develop storytelling skills as part of a new approach to creative learning. Includes a range of stories in an easy to learn format, with tips on how to involve the class. 144 pages.

Crazy Talk 6 The latest version of this very popular 3d character animation software, now enabling multiple characters to interact.
Description
Use Crazy Talk 6 to transform photos and images into talking animated characters and bring them to life with real time puppeteering. Just a single photograph, recorded or imported audio, combined with transitional effects, animated illustrations and expressive emoticons, and CrazyTalks powerful facial morphing animation technology is all a student needs to begin creating speaking actors, virtual guides, and digital hosts adding perfect personalities to any multimedia experience. An ideal application for creating exciting interactive content for your learning platform.
¦More advanced eyeball, eyelash and eye cosmetic settings and effects
¦Export for web/VLE use
¦New - can now animate up to 4 characters on one screen
¦Individual editing tracks for each character
¦Enhanced camera system to pan and zoom in and out
¦More accurate and precise face fitting tools for imported images
Benefits
¦Export in web ready formats (eg Flash): perfect for use in VLE
¦Accuracy and precision tools allow older students to build very sophisticated finished pieces of work
¦Camera functionality and multiple characters enable complete media projects to be built with in Crazy Talk
¦Multiple characters add a new dimension to visual literacy work
¦Enagages students in visual literacy by bringing characters to life with expressive performances in movies.
¦Web Video. Quickly create a character or avatar anchor for podcasts and video blogs that can be hosted on the schools learning platform
¦Virtual Avatars. Virtual avatars can come to life in seconds allowing students to animate faces.
¦Live Performance. Real time puppeteering performance engages audiences of all ages.
¦Use with tradional art/photopgraphy. Any artwork or photo can become a talking animated character for video comics.

28 simple yet effective activities to liven up your science displays. Includes food and health, living things, electricity, forces, magnetism, sound, colour, earth & beyond and water. Paperback 72 pages. KS1 & KS2.

Description
Pixie is exciting creativity software with an array of paint and easy to use image editing tools. Pupils of all ages can manipulate images and design original artwork. Edit images by applying a variety of graphic effects and cool edges to photos. Create original art using unique paint tools, shapes, and fill options. Tell stories using pictures from the sticker library. Pixie 2 is a communication tool for your pupils ideas. Pupils can create original artwork and edit photographs they have taken with a digital camera. Pupils can write and illustrate stories and record their narration. Pupils can create newsletters, greeting cards, and books. Pupils can create digital stories with photos, sound, and art. Pixie is the creativity tool to give life to the curriculum and your pupils imagination. With export options that allow students to share their work as images, movies, slide shows, and web sites, their audience is without limit. Pupils can use the expanded print features to create booklets of original stories, comic strips of historical events, trading cards for literary characters, and more. Pupils can quickly create movies, slide shows, and web sites with just a few clicks of the mouse. Integrate Pixie directly into your curriculum! The Pixie Activities library has been expanded to include over 500 activities on topics such as measurement in mathematics, five senses in science, community in social studies, and reading and writing in literacy. There are templates and other pages to help with research and information organisation. Online maintenance for the Activities and Stickers keeps pupils up-to-date with new art and activities added all the time. Pixie is now available for popular Linux distributions as well

Features
NEW Optional Whiteboard toolbar places tools close to editing panel.
NEW Thought bubbles for text objects.
"Cool Word" feature enables pupils to create amazing text effects.
18 graphics efffects can be applied to photos and other images.
Over 60 ready made starter activities
7 background libraries including "colour me" images for early learners.
NEW online library of thousands of stickers to complete diagrams and illustration
NEW Browse Pics4Learning images, a free community based resource for royalty free safe graphics
NEW Keyboard shortcuts to program with Intellikeys Keyboard
NEW Talking interface (optional)
Benefits
A cross curriucular tool that can be used by pupils to demonstrate understanding in literacy, science and maths concepts, as well as art techniques.
Pupils can apply a variety of graphic effects and cool edgesto photots that they import.
Unique paint tools, shapes, and fill options help pupils create original artwork.
Stickers from a cross curricular library can be easily dropped onto the canvas.
Pupil's work can be easily viewed as a slide show or shared as a web page.
Free differentiated training materials from www.myt4l.com

An effortless way of producing worksheets and other documents in simulated handwriting with correct letter shapes and joins. Simply enter your text and click on convert. Create new documents or convert existing texts. Choose your preferred letter shapes, add lead-in strokes if required, and the program automatically adds the correct letter joins to produce consistent, accurate results every time.
Version 3 has an improved word processor with support for tables and graphics, own spell checker, faster rendering and text conversion and ten additional fully cursive handwriting fonts.
Upgrades from version 2.1 are available.

Introduction
Children from Africa to the Americas explain in their own words what school life is like for them. Find out how some things are just the same as at your school, and how others are very different.

Did you know that in Japan, children have lunch in their classrooms? Or that in Peru children say prayers in the classroom every day?

Meet kids from all over the world, visit their families, friends and teachers, see what school life is like throughout the day in each country and find out what lessons they like (and which ones they don’t!).

Features & Benefits
Paddington Bear: First Steps in History is full of captivating activities designed to introduce young learners to the fascinating world of history. Children can explore Paddington’s passport, read through his diary, investigate the contents of different people’s suitcases and much more!
With the help and support of Paddington Bear, children will learn about famous people from recent history, develop an understanding of their own and their family’s history, become aware of the differences and similarities between past and present, and begin to use historical vocabulary.

© P&Co Ltd 2007

Features & Benefits
Help Paddington Bear to locate his missing marmalade pots, write postcards to Aunt Lucy and pick an outfit – you can even read all about the places he has visited in his scrapbook.
Paddington Bear: First Steps in Geography is an engaging resource full of activities that will inspire young learners to develop a greater understanding of the world around them – both near and far! Children will also develop their basic mapping skills and explore the natural wonders of the Earth, whilst developing key geographical vocabulary.

© P&Co Ltd 2007

Features & Benefits
In this delightful program the lovable Big Ted and Little Ted introduce your early learners to the creative and absorbing world of computer tools. Teddy Bear Tools uses a bright, engaging interface with jolly, colourful graphics and is differentiated at two levels. The content of Little Ted’s level is clearly presented and suitable for 3-4 year olds. Big Ted’s level is more challenging and starts to take on the look of more traditional computer tools. Work can be saved to a picture gallery and then viewed via a slideshow, nurturing a sense of pride and promoting self-esteem. In addition, this program is perfect for building confidence as there are no right or wrong answers – everyone can succeed in expressing their ideas.


Contents
Four tools: Writing, Painting, Moving and Stamping
Two levels
Links familiar Early Years themes with computer tools
Work can be saved and viewed as a slideshow

Features & Benefits
RiFF is a powerful music creation tool, designed to make composing music as easy as possible. Compositions are created, bar by bar, using a simple grid view, and are also displayed and printed using full musical notation. RiFF supports up to seven simultaneous tracks of music and an additional percussion track. Each track can be assigned an instrument from the large selection available. Many additional features are provided to help with the composition process, such as the powerful auto-accompany which automatically generates backing tracks. A large range of examples are provided to get all budding composers started.


Contents
Easy-to-use editing grid
Support for musical notation
Print all or part of the score
Control tempo, time signature and key signature
Record from a MIDI keyboard in step and real-time
Export as MIDI files for use in other programs
Includes example files and lesson plans

The complete toolbox for primary schools includes several exciting new programs as well as updated versions of old favourites, including: PawPrints - DTP, SlideShow - presentation, Decisions 3 - Branching database , Write Away! - Wordprocessor, Fresco - Graphics, BlackCat LOGO, NumberBox 2 - Spreadsheet, Information Workshop 2000 - Database.

This book will help you take a confident and inspired approach to meeting the Early Learning Goals. The stories are rich in mathematical content. Enact them with the accompanying soft toys and bring maths to life in your class. Children will be thinking about numbers, shape and space, measures and more as they delight in stories about going to the moon, bath time ducks and teddy's scarf. The flipbook format means children see the illustrated page while you see the story and suggestions for developing the play.

Includes:

A3 flipbook
13 stories with illustrations, suggestions, simplifications and challenges
6 soft toys

A fantastic blend of classic and new verse from Scotland - the ideal accompaniment to any Burns Night celebrations!

'In SCOTTISH POEMS John Rice takes us on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour, the poets of his choice a refreshing and stimulating mix of the familiar and the unexpected. The vitality and diversity of their voices (English, Scots and Gaelic, from the Borders to Shetland and the Western Isles) reflect that of the land they live in, and whet the appetite for more.'

Stewart Conn, poet and playwright.


My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;

My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;

A-chasing the wild-deer and following the roe,

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Robert Burns

You might like to use the poster with straight letter shapes. Another great reference point for whole class work on letter shapes, sounds, alphabetical order and linking capital and lower case letter shapes. Includes long vowels. Size A2 / 16.5”x23.4
T30

A comprehensive collection of 15,000 royalty free images selected for Education.

15,000 Educational Images contains a vibrant variety of colour photographs, raster illustrations, Photo-Objects® and vector clip-art. Covering categories such as dinosaurs, flags, geography, the human body, natural history, music, science and nature - this program is perfect for illustrating any homework or school project.

Select your image from a category or keyword, then drag and drop it into any open application, it's as easy that! Alternatively use the "Export Wizard" to guide you step by step through the export process. Resize, flip or crop your image before exporting it into your word processing, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, painting or drawing program.

Works with all popular software and printers including:
Word Processor, spreadsheet etc., presentation software, Web authoring tools or other similar software, graphics applications that support 32bit images and popular image editing software. Exports into 14 different file formats: .gif, .tif, .tga, .ras, .jpg, .png, .bmp, .pcx, .fpx, .psd, .wpg, .pct, .wmf, and .emf.


Features



Buildings and Architecture

Costumes and Clothes

Currency

Dinosaurs

Flags

Food and Drink

Geography

History

Holidays and Special Occasions

Human Body

In the Classroom

Maths

Military

Music

Natural History

Nature

Religion

Science and Technology

Space

Sport

Transportation

Wildlife and Animals

If you want to add impact to a school or college project, produce eye-catching documents or simply create fun letters and notes, then this stunning collection of high-quality images is just what you need.

20 Categories of images including Nature, Holidays and Special Occasions.



Key Features:

Covers a wide range of school-related subjects, activities and events.
Perfect to help you find everything you need to make any coursework or project more professional-looking and exciting.
Organise into clear categories to make finding the right image quick and easy.
Provides all the tools you need to search, edit and export your image.
Allows you to change the background of the image to blend in with the background of your document, web page or email.

You asked for mini geared clocks - well here they are! This set includes a teacher demonstration clock and 24 geared clocks for pupils. Teacher's clock 330mm tall, pupil's clock 100mm tall.

Individual mini clocks also available.

Letterland Living Code Cards is a new teaching resource for focusing on phonic structure, language development, word building, and spelling in a child-friendly way. With this software you can display a-z and over 40 digraphs and trigraphs. Listen and watch as the Letterland characters animate stories that explain the sounds you hear in words, making learning memorable and fun.

Create your own revision/consolidation support with the ‘Quick Dash’ facility to develop mastery of all the phonemes. Then start blending sounds together, with and without pictogram support, in the ‘Word Building’ facility.
Ideal for use on a whiteboard or with a smaller group around a computer.

500 Primary Classroom Activities is the answer to that perennial question of “What on earth am I going to do with my class tomorrow?”. Aimed at teachers of children between the ages of 3 – 12, this book is a lively, varied compendium of ideas and classroom activities.

Key Features:
• A wide-ranging resource of activities which are easy to set up and do not require a lot of additional materials.
• Up-to-date approach covers current approaches in teaching children including content-based learning.
• Ideal for all primary-focused teachers, including those on teacher training courses such as the Cambridge CELTYL.
• Designed to be flexible to supplement a wide range of syllabus-types (story-based, grammatical, etc.).

500 Activities for the Primary Classroom - 9781405099073

Features & Benefits
The Foundations in ICT scheme of work provides a broad and balanced guide to teaching ICT skills across the curriculum, using nine bestselling Early Years and KS1 software titles. Beginning with 'Meeting the Mouse', each of the six units has been carefully designed to meet the requirements for ICT in the Foundation Stage. With 170 pages packed full of detailed plans for whole-class and focused group work and review and assessment projects, this book caters for everyone – from the ICT expert to the technophobe! Also including a range of photocopiable worksheets, flashcards and additional ICT themes and lesson ideas, this book provides a wealth of support to help your pupils take their first steps in using ICT.

Features & Benefits
A collection of seven engaging activities to reinforce pupils’ understanding of clocks and telling the time.
Featuring the ever-popular Mr Wolf character, this energetic resource is ideal for use on an interactive whiteboard as a start of lesson warm up or end of lesson cool down. Pupils will also enjoy playing the activities on individual computers as a reward or during free time.

The program also includes a Teacher’s Toolkit area complete with ‘real time’ synchronised analogue and digital clocks and a range of other features to create a number of different interactive activities.



Contents
Seven motivational activities
Teacher’s Toolkit containing a range of imagery and shapes for the creation of further activities
‘Real time’ and demonstrational analogue and digital clocks
Pen and rubber annotation tools

Global Warning is an authoritative and visually stunning book, unique in its approach. While most of the current literature on the subject is highly scientific, this book’s aim is to educate the public at large. Graphics and maps, hard-hitting text, and powerful pictures show the plight the world is already facing. The tone is serious, but ultimately positive and outlines what we all need to do to safeguard our future. It provides an honest appraisal of a critical situation, and some practical advice about solutions — whether making small adjustments in everyday life, or raising public awareness across the globe.

The book is an invaluable tool to inform business leaders and the public alike of the consequences and opportunities associated with the ongoing increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the repercussions of continuing “business as usual”. It is clear about the problems which we face, but positive about the possibilities of averting the worst.

Revelation Natural Art can easily be configured to meet any learner’s specific needs. You can add or reduce the number of tools available to make the program as powerful or as simple to use as you wish.

The fully customisable interface constructor allows you to:

Add or remove tools to meet any user’s abilities
Increase/decrease tool button sizes
Add or remove any menu options
Move tools around; lock or undock toolbars
Create completely new toolbars with new behaviours
Save and load your own customised settings for future use

Three pre-configured interfaces tailor the software to the needs of a young KS1 learner, a KS2 learner and a confident KS3/4 user.
The rich range of super realistic natural media effects allows all users to work intuitively with the same tools on the computer that they have already used in their real life Art and Design work:

Crayons
Oil Pastels
Pencils
Charcoal
Felt pens
Chalks
Acrylic paints
Poster paints
Watercolour paints
Airbrush sprays

What is Revelation Sight & Sound?

The digital video companion to Revelation Natural Art provides an incredibly versatile tool with which you will be able to create radio programmes, slideshows, rostrum camera documentaries, and even high quality video feature films. The software comes with a wealth of resources and many activities can be completed just with access to an ordinary digital camera.

What can it do?

Revelation Sight & Sound supports the teaching of the literacy of moving images. The extensive Activity Guide teaches how to communicate in a variety of forms and genres. It helps pupils learn communication skills and techniques, which they will be able to use throughout their lives. And for you, as a teacher, it puts the world of film-making at your fingertips, in an easily managed and accessible classroom format.
You can easily mix text, graphics, sound and digital video. The configurable interface helps children of all ages and abilities to quickly understand the process of visual communication using the moving image.
The drag and drop, easy to understand effects can quickly be used to modify the appearance and behaviour of your video.

Revelation Sight & Sound allows you to explore exciting Rostrum Camera techniques to create video from still photographs, using panning and zooming combined with music, sound effects and narration.

Revelation Sight & Sound comes with a comprehensive set of audio resources including sample narrations, a sound effects library and a versatile collection of background music to add mood and atmosphere to your work.

How can it be used in the classroom?

Literacy is the art of communicating and, in the modern world, moving image media are as much a part of literacy as traditional printed materials. Now the materials used in your literacy lessons need not be restricted to printed words, they can include images and sounds as well.

The carefully selected sample video clips, sounds, music and images will help your pupils develop their literacy skills using multimedia elements, without any need to purchase specialist photography or film-making equipment.

Pupils can produce powerful and persuasive documentaries and video projects using nothing more than a microphone and the still images produced from a simple, low cost digital camera.

This handbook and video pack combines theory and practical teaching strategies to engage children in criticial thinking on issues of citizenship such as fairness, friendship and responsibility. Included are notes and advice on whole school policies for subject co-ordinators and school heads.

Stimulating resources to challenge gifted children at KS3.

KS3 Star Maths has been written to challenge gifted mathematicians aged 11-14. It consists of stimulating practical classroom assignments and can be easily used alongside other KS3 resources within mixed ability groups, maths clubs or as a parallel extension course.
KS3 Star Maths includes one student's book and one practical, photocopicable set of teaching resources.

Letts KS3 Star Maths:

Contains practical enrichment and extension activities focused on thinking skills and creativity
Can be used as a KS3 programme for more able students
Delivers extra-curricular ideas, such as opportunities for research into topics of interest
Gives ideas for withdrawal lessons
Introduces 11-14 year olds to the demands of GSCE-level work in an unpressured, age-appropriate way.

Features & Benefits
In the creative world of Stripy Tiger and Spotty Shark, children are encouraged to experiment with colour and pattern using a series of outline images. This text-free product is designed to engage young children with the computer, develop creativity and help them to become independent users. Picture Box contains simple images to help your children build confidence as they produce beautiful pictures, time after time. Background music is included to create different moods which quickly absorb the children in their own world of colour and pattern.


Contents
Totally text free
Three levels of complexity
45 clear, simple images
Whiteboard compatible
Mouse, spacebar or single/dual switch access and other inclusion features

Join Barnaby Bear and plan his tour of the United Kingdom, visiting 12 different locations
Designed to support and extend geographical learning, this exciting interactive program is packed full of high-quality multimedia information, including a large variety of photographs, video and audio clips.
Each of the 12 locations includes four activities designed around specific geographical themes. These allow children to find out about, describe and compare places, use geographical language, use and identify compass directions and grid positions, and recognise and make observations about landscape features.

Contents

12 carefully selected locations covering coastal, urban & rural settings
Four activities for each location
Large variety of photographs and narrated commentary
High-quality video clips, audio clips and maps
Pupil’s scrapbook facility to store and print work
Comprehensive Teacher Options

This program will help develop spelling, vocabulary and predictive reading skills and is suitable for use with all ages and abilities.
Under teacher control, prefixes, suffixes, letter groups, whole words and letters can be removed from a piece of text. This text is then displayed `on-screen` for pupils to reinstate the missing pieces! `Searchlights` can display text in English, French, German, Spanish and Welsh.
Individuals or groups of pupils can be assigned a series of texts and will progress automatically from one to another only when they have attained a performance level set by the teacher for each of the texts.


Key Features
• Comprehension, reading & grammar
• Printable Worksheets
• Year End incrementation
• Performance review option
• Suitable for Special Needs and MFL

Features & Benefits
Time Detectives: The Victorians is designed to introduce the Victorian era to 7-11 year olds in a highly original and entertaining way. In an exciting adventure, pupils take on the role of a newspaper reporter and must investigate the mysterious disappearance of three local children. Working undercover, they must complete eleven activities in various settings, (including a Victorian school, factory, street, and grand house) all the while gaining a thorough understanding of life in Victorian Britain.


Contents
11 engaging activities
Interesting and informative settings including a Victorian school, factory, street, and grand house
Carefully researched content and graphics
Printable resources to support classroom work

This sophisticated design program rivals anything currently in the market for children, and is a great introduction to computer-based design.
The level of complexity can be adapted to suit the user’s competence as they progress and familiarise themselves with the software. At the optimum level the users can utilise tools such as lasso, smear brush, magic wand and create multiple layers. It also has an invaluable undo and redo function which assists the creative process through trial and error.

This is an excellent pre-curser to professional level programs such as PaintShopTM Pro® and Adobe Photoshop®.

New Features include:

Multiple stamp banks
Natural art effects
Gradient fills
Layers
Customisation of tools
Save to Web
Sound and Video

New art tools enable the user to create natural art effects on screen by imitating the natural characteristics of using oil paints, crayons, watercolours, acrylic paints, felt markers and dry brushes on canvas. With a unique new feature for Dazzle 03 – Save to Web – users can create and manage an online gallery of images that can be viewed from any online computer –anytime, anywhere!

Quotes:
“This package enables the user to create a variety of work of an impressive quality, including simple visual presentations

The Naughty Phonics is a brand new series of CD`s, each containing three interactive activities designed to help young children to develop their phonological awareness of medial short vowel sounds.
Each Naughty Phonics activity focuses on a different aspect of phonological awareness, such as recognising common spellings for each phoneme and blending phonemes into words for reading. Including delightful reward animations, this program makes first phonics engaging and fun.

Three types of interactive activity
Uses synthetic and analytic approaches
Over 150 narrated words
Predefined word lists for easy access
On-screen keyboard

Guaranteed to become a firm classroom favourite this CD hosted by Robbie Ruler and packed full of high-quality graphics, animations and speech, contains over 100 activities to really help reinforce all aspects of early number.
Developed specifically for 4-5 year olds, it contains a wealth of engaging content that covers many key numeracy objectives, including counting and recognising numbers, calculations and problem solving. Easy to use both independently and for group teaching, this software provides the ideal solution to your infant numeracy needs.

Guaranteed to become a firm classroom favourite this CD hosted by Robbie Ruler and packed full of high-quality graphics, animations and speech, contains over 100 activities to really help reinforce all aspects of early number.
Developed specifically for 5-6 year olds, it contains a wealth of engaging content that covers many key numeracy objectives, including counting and recognising numbers, calculations and problem solving. Easy to use both independently and for group teaching, this software provides the ideal solution to your infant numeracy needs.

Guaranteed to become a firm classroom favourite this CD hosted by Robbie Ruler and packed full of high-quality graphics, animations and speech, contains over 100 activities to really help reinforce all aspects of early number.
Developed specifically for 6-7 year olds, it contains a wealth of engaging content that covers many key numeracy objectives, including counting and recognising numbers, calculations and problem solving. Easy to use both independently and for group teaching, this software provides the ideal solution to your infant numeracy needs.

A highly motivational module which provides the opportunity to practise mental calculation skills. A selection of different games can be played with the facility to draw on all four number operations. Designed for maximum flexibility, the Setup enables individual operations to be turned on or off. Different response times and the level of difficulty can also be selected. Delightful reward animations encourage improvements to speed and accuracy

This module introduces a whole new world of competition with quick-fire times tables and mental maths tests. The Maths Race module is a motivating way to encourage practising times tables and all four number operations.
Times table factors from 1 to 12 can be set and the speed of delivery can be adjusted to suit the needs of the child. Mental maths, which includes the flexibility to use between one and four number operations, can be tailored to suit all abilities. From a single player version playing against the computer to up to four players in teams, The Maths Race is specially designed for multi-player interaction when used on an interactive whiteboard.

Features

Create single or even compilation DVDs from your own favourite movie files (DivX®, AVI, WMV etc)
Convert DVDs (or other video files) to more portable DivX®, XviD, Real®, WMV, MPEG or AVI formats - and back again!
Create videos & clips for your website
Enjoy high speed encoding with adjustable compression ratios
Create compatible DVDs or Video CDs, playable on any standard DVD player
And much more..!

Written for senior management teams, teachers and teaching assistants, this book is packed full of ew innovative ideas and includes:
An outline of the role of the teaching assistant in the context of current thinking
Clear guidelines on who is responsible for their support and development.
An outline of ways in which teaching assistants can be fully integrated into school and their skills used effectively.
A wealth of resources and strategies for effective support, including how to compile a simple, yet invaluable teaching assistants' handbook.

Practical solutions and advice on how to function effectively as a Teaching Assistant. Chapters include tips for working with the whole class, groups of children or individuals with special needs. There is advice on suppoerting literacy, on helping with splling and writing and onhow to cope with the paperwork involved in this demanding yet rewarding job.

Features & Benefits
Wolf Hill Level 1 contains six engaging and entertaining books centred around a group of pupils attending Wolf Hill primary school. All text is fully narrated using appropriate intonation, and there are engaging animations with accompanying sound effects throughout. Thought bubbles are placed at strategic places within the book, which when viewed encourage further discussion about the characters' thoughts and feelings. At the end of each chapter children can be asked comprehension questions to consolidate their understanding of the story.


Contents
Six fully narrated talking stories
Lively animations and sound effects
Reading comprehension questions
Interactive thought bubbles
Teacher Options
Record keeping

Features & Benefits
Wolf Hill Level 2 contains six engaging and entertaining books centred around a group of pupils attending Wolf Hill primary school. All text is fully narrated using appropriate intonation, and there are engaging animations with accompanying sound effects throughout the books. The books are graded gradually to steadily build up students' reading stamina and abilities. Thought bubbles are placed at strategic places within the book, which when viewed encourage further thoughts about the characters' thoughts and feelings. At the end of each chapter children can be asked comprehension questions to consolidate their understanding of the story.


Contents
Six fully narrated talking stories
Lively animations and sound effects
Reading comprehension questions
Interactive thought bubbles
Teacher options
Record keeping

This program has been specifically designed for use in the classroom and optimized for networks. It is suitable for teaching music making to students of all ages and abilities.
Covering the following key areas in music- arranging, creating and developing ideas, improvising, refining and improving, rhythm, pulse, pitch, melody, structure and harmony. Import samples in MP3 or WAV format, record your own samples and export your mix as a WAV file. Also includes more than 3,500 royalty-free dance, club and lounge samples from Dance eJay 5.

FEATURES
• 48-track sound mixer in Hi-Fi stereo quality
• Easy to use with full drag & drop support
• Groove Generator - digital drum machine for
creating your own beat patterns
• Hyper Generator - synthesizer with filter, echo and
distortion effects
• Extensive FX Studio for editing samples
• Time Stretcher for altering the tempo of samples
without changing the pitch
• Equalizer, Booster and audio mixer for each track
• Vocoder - give your samples a synthesized effect
• Voice Generator - create your own robot voices and
cool vocal FX samples
• Direct access to more samples in the eJay Online
Sound Archive
• Record your own samples and voices using a
microphone (full duplex recording)
• Import samples in MP3 or WAV format
• Export your mix as a WAV file
• Music Animator - with Save to Mix and AVI video
file export

Words & Music allows up to three tracks for call and response, rounds, sound effects and multi-layered instrumental pieces. Children type onto `paper strips` in the pre-notation screen, stretching and shrinking them to change note length and moving them up and down to give pitch. This innovative music software, uses the rhythms, stresses and intonations of the spoken word to develop listening, composition and performance skills and the understanding of musical concepts. It brings Literacy and Music together in a clever, mutually supportive way.

• More than 200 sampled instruments or optional MIDI
• Work in major, minor and chromatic scales or create your own, e.g. pentatonic scales or ragas
• Traditional notation on treble, bass or percussion staves
• Edit the rhythm and pitch of notations directly

This valuable resource allows confident teaching of world religions. Covering Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism, the disc contains six hundred articles, one thousand colour photographs , drawings and diagrams making it comprehensive in content.
Sound effects accompany key events and practices. Glossary words and entry titles are spoken so children can hear the correct pronunciation of unfamiliar words. Children can easily search for information: `Hot-linked` cross-references provide instant links to related articles whilst `Trail` lists the places you have visited, allowing you to retrace your steps. Text and pictures from articles can be exported for use in other applications, or for use in activities away from the computer.

Packed with geography-based activities that have been carefully designed to extend children`s geographical skills and locational knowledge, and a superb interactive globe and atlas.
Contains quizzes at levels of difficulty linked to the NC, a quiz creator facility, jigsaws of the World, Europe and the British Isles at two levels of difficulty and extensive investigations to promote the application of key geographical skills.
Key features:
• World, Europe and British Isles categories, with controllable levels of zoom
• Interactive atlas tools
• `Find it` search engine
• Hundreds of country and geographical feature texts

This CD ROM has been dveloped to help students develop their basic language skills.
The three activities build and consolidate a strong vocabulary through the use of a comprehensive collection of high quality and colourful photographs. This program has been carefully designed to support users with special educational needs and all the activities are switch accessible.
Contents
Clear and simple interface and images
Full speech support throughout
Mouse or switch mode
Optional animated rewards
Speech or text-only facility
Individual user settings
Whiteboard compatible

This series includes three programs that will help your pupils to develop their basic language skills, as well as build and consolidate a strong vocabulary through the use of a comprehensive collection of photographs.
Each CD includes the activities Matching, Finding and Find the Word, each available at four levels of difficulty, as well as a Photo Viewer section. The programs have been carefully designed to support users with special educational needs and are all switch accessible.
Contents
Clear and simple interface and images
Full speech support throughout
Mouse or switch mode
Animated `rewards`
Switch off speech or text facility
Four difficulty levels
The ability to configure settings to needs of individual users

Verbs
Features & Benefits
This program, like all titles in the Language Cards Interactive series, includes the same main activities, Finding, Matching and Find the Word, to help pupils learn about both actions and tense sequencing.


Contents
Clear and simple interface and images
Full speech support throughout
Mouse or switch mode
Animated `rewards`
Switch off speech or text facility
Four difficulty levels
The ability to configure settings to needs of individual user

With a double-page spread for every letter of the alphabet, this handbook gives guidance on introducing each lower case letter, how to write it correctly, how to pronounce each letter sound and how to explain the corresponding capital letter shape. It shows how to introduce the new Letterland characters in a warm, simple and fun way, full of practical suggestions for follow-up activities and discussion. Also helps with Foundation Stage profiles. Size A4 / 8.3”x11.7”, 80 pages .

The Letterland ABC is an essential addition to any classroom. This best-selling children’s alphabet book has been completely revised with vibrant new illustrations. Each of the 26 scenes depict a Letterland character surrounded by objects beginning with the target sound. Children love finding all the alliterative words, promoting phonemic awareness and vocabulary development. Size 260x215mm / 10.2”x8.5”, 64 pages.
Item Code: ABCSB ISBN: 1862092222

Enter the interactive World of Letterland and meet the a - z characters. Songs and animation help pupils to learn the alphabet sounds and correct handwriting strokes. There are assessed activities for recognising letter shapes and sounds, long and short vowel sounds and building regular words. Teachers can create multiple classes and select which letters and activities are appropriate for each class, or use the software for whole class work on an interactive whiteboard. They can monitor results for each pupil.

Letterland Living Code Cards is a new teaching resource for focusing on phonic structure, language development, word building, and spelling in a child-friendly way. With this software you can display a-z and over 40 digraphs and trigraphs. Listen and watch as the Letterland characters animate stories that explain the sounds you hear in words, making learning memorable and fun.

Create your own revision/consolidation support with the ‘Quick Dash’ facility to develop mastery of all the phonemes. Then start blending sounds together, with and without pictogram support, in the ‘Word Building’ facility.
Ideal for use on a whiteboard or with a smaller group around a computer.

Letterland Living Code Cards is a new teaching resource for focusing on phonic structure, language development, word building, and spelling in a child-friendly way. With this software you can display a-z and over 40 digraphs and trigraphs. Listen and watch as the Letterland characters animate stories that explain the sounds you hear in words, making learning memorable and fun.

Create your own revision/consolidation support with the ‘Quick Dash’ facility to develop mastery of all the phonemes. Then start blending sounds together, with and without pictogram support, in the ‘Word Building’ facility.
Ideal for use on a whiteboard or with a smaller group around a computer

This carefully constructed CD gently supports young children in developing their understanding of different roles in society and why these roles matter, whilst effectively addressing early literacy and ICT goals. Covers fire-fighters, police, paramedics, doctors nurses and dentists, with switch/spacebar access to ensure everyone can play. Perfect for topics, discussion work and independent use.

Creates original scenarios through guided choices
Fun reinforcement activities
Clear teacher options
Fully narrated throughout
Encourages reflection and discussion

My World 3 screens can contain pictures, text, animation and sound. These can be picked up, moved, dropped and deleted. Text can be added and edited. The program is very simple to learn and use, yet is powerful enough to be a most effective learning tool. My World 3 can be used in many ways and across the whole school curriculum.

Description
Booklet gives support and ideas for games and activities to help teachers plan lessons - written by Sue Palmer
Val Biro's illustrations bring dictionary skills learning alive

Over 500 words are explained through activities and games, Val Biro's illustrations bring learning dictionary skills into the classroom in a fun and lively way.


Readership: Age 3+ years

The Magic Forest is an ICT based modelling environment developed and designed for children from four to seven years old. It comes with a variety of activities to explore, understand and change. Learners explore an activity and discover what happens. In many of the activities, learners need to make decisions and the consequences of their decisions can be seen and experienced on screen.

Included with the program are a set of stimulating backgrounds and a set of fully animated characters that will allow young learners to create many different kinds of activities.
How does it work? In a very simple way it is possible to build icon phrases that define actions and conditions, so that animated objects can move themselves around the screen, or be controlled by the learner(s). There can be a seperate set of rules for each animated object. Those rules are defined by tablets, which are placed in papyrus scrolls. There are tablets to define conditions. These must be at the beginning of a papyrus scroll. To complete the rule phrase, it is necessary to choose tablets that define actions.

Using control tablets, we can control characters or objects with the direction arrows, the mouse or a joystick. Make your magic Forest activities come to life; no reading necessary.

Activities, backgrounds and characters The Magic Forest is packed with beautifully drawn backgrounds and characters inclding children's favourites:


The Gingerbread Man
Little Red Riding Hood
Incy Wincy Spider
Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

`Zig Zag - The Tudors` brings history alive, with interactive animations and puzzles that give pupils enhanced learning of this subject. It operates within an easy to use interface and is accompanied by a range of printable worksheets. A comprehensive set of teachers` notes is also included which fully state the learning objectives this program fulfils.
Software pack includes
• Teacher`s guide,
• Photocopiable activity book

An exciting range of graphics and activities for primary pupils covering the geography curriculum and looking at the differences in the environments of villages, towns and cities.
The activities concentrate on mapping type exercises focusing on different kinds of settlement. The program contains extensive maps and mapping activities varying in levels of difficulty.
Key features
• Plans
• The use of directions that combine up to 8 compass points
• Understanding co-ordinates which start at a simple level and progress up to 6 figure grid references
• Children will also develop an understanding of map symbols, key recognition and plotting grid references

This CD provides a wide range of backgrounds, characters, props and audio files to engage you and your students with this absorbing period of history. Characters include soldiers and civilians from all levels of society, plus modern characters to enable students to create storyboards of interviews, court cases or TV documentaries. Backgrounds range from trenches, battlefields and civilian locations to courtrooms and TV studios.
Activities include: Why Did the War Start? Why Did the War Last so Long? Life on the Western Front; What Was it Like at Home? How Did the War End?

This is one of a series of CDs which introduces some of the interactive learning activities from the Big Bus, a good solution for schools with an interactive whiteboard.
The Nursery Pack contains Dress Bo Bear, Terry the Tug, Counting Character and Bo Bear`s Spelling Nursery.
Introducing the delightful character of Bo Bear. Four activities encourage children to help Bo dress herself by identifying and choosing appropriate clothes.
Terry the Tug and his friends help children with many early number concepts - counting and number familiarity, addition and subtraction.
Counting Characters is a simple introduction to the numbers one to ten.
Bo Bear`s Spelling Nursery utilises the `look, Cover, Write, Check` technique of practising and reinforcing spellings.

Join cartoon characters Hamish McGee and Gale Rio in their children`s TV show designed to aid year 5-6 children with their spelling. Features include carefully designed animated explanations to help pupils understand key points, an ingenious spellchecker that shows and explains when mistakes are made and a choice of seven exciting games aimed at improving the child`s reading ability.
Key features
• Diagnostic testing
• Animated explanations
• Extensive range of exercises and activities
• A fun-packed activity board
• Teacher`s section
• Comprehensive record keeping

Splodge, the lovable blue paint splat, accompanies children as they search the early years classroom for his missing friends, who have been scattered by the mischievous Peter Paintbrush.
Along the way, Splodge and the children encounter a whole host of thought provoking cross curricular challenges, including mending the toy making machine, creating the correct sequence to blow Billy Boat across the water tray, and decorating fussy Panda`s cake.

The perfect introduction to adventure software, Here`s Splodge includes a cast of colourful characters, engaging activities and a sense of fun that early learners will find irresistible.


Six activities, each with two levels of difficulty
Adventure and Activity Modes
Simple Teacher Options
Text free
Fully narrated
Develops early problem solving, prediction and modelling skills

A delightful program that includes seven fun-filled activities designed to improve basic counting skills. With the help of three popular number songs, which users are encouraged to join in with, pupils will learn to count up to five, practise one-to-one correspondence, recall sequences of animals and much more. Pupils will also develop their listening skills by responding to spoken instructions, their problem solving skills by exploring outcomes and practise fine motor skills by using a mouse or switch to interact with the tasks.

Seven activities
Three themes
Three animated number songs
Three levels of difficulty
Mouse and switch accessible
Ideal for use on an interacative whiteboard

This innovative product introduces children to the use of email without any need for them to connect to the Internet.
Nine varied control activities, each at two levels of difficulty.

Little Brown Bear on the Farm develops essential ICT skills for children aged 3 to 5, in the setting of a fun-packed farmyard. With full narration, simple, bright graphics and enchanting musical introduction sequences, the CD is extremely appealing.
Eight carefully designed activities develop a range of skills including clicking with the mouse, dragging the cursor across a screen, moving the cursor and clicking to cause something to happen, clicking on specific target areas and using the mouse to drag and drop items. Some activities have a variety of difficulty levels to cater for a range of pupil abilities and needs.

Features & Benefits
Introduce children to the Oxford Reading Tree Talking Stories series with this brand new Stage 1 and 1+ CD-ROM. The Click and Explore Stories have been carefully designed to introduce children to the main characters in the Oxford Reading Tree series. Children can explore the picture on each page and click to discover characters' names and hear them speak. Whilst no words appear on screen, the story can be heard by clicking on the ear button.
The First Words and First Sentences stories have all the usual valued features from the series: simple interfaces, highlighting text, lively narration, fun animations and easy to use teacher options.



Contents
Easy Teacher Options
Six Click and Explore Stories
Six First Words Stories
Six First Sentences Stories
Highlighting text with lively narration

Features & Benefits
Easi Keysi is an interactive program that will help your pupils to develop their basic typing skills and reinforce spelling patterns. Including over 100 differentiated typing lists and 1000 different words, this program enables you to provide stimulating typing practice at a language level relevant to each individual pupil.
With all this and more, Easi Keysi will motivate children while effectively developing their keyboard skills and overall vocabulary.



Contents
Over 100 differentiated typing lists
Interactive on-screen keyboard
Configurable text, keyboard style and colour
Pupil record keeping
Whiteboard compatible

Working closely with the games' authors we have produced
a totally compulsive software version of Nubble! that is the
perfect tool for schools to improve the numeracy of pupils
of all ages.

Summary of the rules:
Players take turns to throw four dice and combine their scores
to generate a whole number between 1 and 100.
For example: (6 + 4) x (3 + 1) = 40.
The player clicks the number on the Nubble! board and scores
points depending on which number they have chosen.
The highest numbers score the most points.
Players score bonus points by making a Nubble! move. This is
when the chosen number creates a triangle of three adjacent
counters on the board. Double bonus points are scored by making
a Nubble! move on a prime number – this is a double Nubble! move.
The game ends when there is a continuous path of counters from
hexagon 1 to hexagon 100.
The winner is the player with the highest score.

With improved pictures and even clearer speech, Starspell helps teachers implement the NC at word level. Teacher`s have the facility to incorporate class names (groups), so that multiple classes can be more easily managed. There are also additional KS3 words and lists making it suitable for a wider age range.
It uses the Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check approach. It has a progressive approach to English spelling, and many lists of key words for subject areas. Every word is spoken, and has an accompanying sentence. Adding your own lists is easy. Specially designed games and worksheets reinforce learning.
Starspell 2.3 includes special support for the Literacy Hour; every spelling word has a sentence for context. Word lists can be tailored to the needs of individual learners using weekly spelling lists or curriculum vocabulary. Also included is an onset and rime section and incorporates many games and worksheets. Diagnostic Pupil Records of all spelling attempts help teachers with record keeping.

This resource provides short, focused tasks to help teachers introduce ICT resources to the daily maths lesson - ideal for use by individual or small groups of pupils.
Topics covered include:
The relationship between addition and subtraction
Using a number line to work out calculations
Adding and subtracting multiples of 10
Addition doubles and near double.

Chefren Pyramid Maths offers a challenge to top primary and lower secondary students.
There are 70 rooms to battle through to reach the top, covering mental arithmetic, speed and accuracy, estimation, geometry, charts and diagrams, co-ordinates, percentage, probability, and much more. The Egyptian context is refreshing and inspiring to a wide age range and the balance between maths challenges and games encourages perseverance. Once completed, any room can be opened as a teaching aid, or just for fun. Teachers can set program parameters in a management program.
Key features include:
• Timeless graphical style
• Appeals to all ages and abilities
• Huge variety of maths and games

This educational program is designed with fun packed music and listening activities to encourage children to respond, explore, experiment, express their ideas and use their imagination.
This superb program helps to develop many vital early skills. It is designed to:

Improve listening skills and lengthens concentration span
Enhance visual and auditory memory
Develope mouse skills and hand-eye co-ordination
Encourage confidence and self-esteem

Featuring the popular character from the BBC TV series, this innovative CD focuses on key objectives of the KS1 Geography curriculum.
Through 36 engaging interactive activities, pupils develop their geographical knowledge and skills as they experience visiting a range of locations, including Belfast, Poole and Chennai. The activities address the themes of travelling & maps, weather & packing, landscape, sightseeing, transport and shopping. With its highly configurable options, combined with the innovative pupil`s scrapbook feature, the program will inspire, support and extend classroom learning.

In adventure mode, pupils must pit their wits against the Glob monster and the Trogs to try and rescue the missing butterflies, solving problems along the way.

In activity mode, skills can be closely focused on and consolidated through any of the eight activities, with three levels of difficulty throughout to ensure something for every ability level. Large, clear graphics make the activities ideal for whole class teaching as well as individual pupil use.

In addition to focusing on the Shape, Space and Measures aspect of mathematics, The Nature Park also provides many starting points for work on environmental issues.



Contents
Adventure and Activity Modes
Three levels of difficulty throughout
Clockwise/anti-clockwise
Angles and co-ordinates
Identifying 2-D shapes and 3-D construction

Seashore Life gives pupils the chance to discover and interact with the animals, plants and birds that inhabit our seashores.
Pupils can:

Access information ways by exploring different coastal environments on an imaginary island
Learn about animal classification
Watch videos and animations

A very flexible control program which handles all aspects of turtle graphics. It starts with the simple movement of a single object and progresses to complex programming and control over multiple objects.
At the simplest level, easy on screen buttons are used to control the movement of a traditional turtle, optionally leaving a path trail of graphics. This subtly teaches about distances and angles. Sequences can be pre-set and run as scripts to create repeating patterns. This introduces simple programming and control concepts to students. Embed scripts within other scripts for a powerful, yet simple programming language.

Any Textease object can be named and used as a turtle, whether it is a simple shape, a photograph or clipart. Control as many of these turtles as you wish, to demonstrate more complex programming, provide an interesting multimedia show, or as an ideal way to create animations that can then saved for use on the web.
Key features
• Textease style user interface
• Simple turtle graphics
• Set pen up/down
• Move, size, rotate or hide any object
• Define your own buttons for simple commands or complex scripts
• Runs independently or fully integrates Textease

Involving six activities, this program introduces pre-school children and the developmentally young to a host of vital skills.
Activities include mouse skills, decision making skills, visual and auditory stimulation, left/right orientation and tracking. With engaging graphics, catchy music and plenty of surprises, the child`s attention will be held, either using a mouse, switch or touchscreen to interact with the application.


Key features
• Energetic, humorous, attractive and engaging
• Develops pre-reading skills
• Lengthens concentration span
• Encourages decision making skills
• Improves tracking and left/right orientation

The seven specially selected activities from the Leaps and Bounds series can all be accessed via mouse, keyboard, switch, touchscreen or interactive whiteboard. Bright, appealing characters stimulate the imagination of young learners and encourage the development of vital early learning skills including: cause and effect skills, visual discrimination and memory, tracking and left-right orientation, improving concentration, confidence and self-esteem, language development and supporting problem solving and sequencing skills. This program is text and speech free, crossing cultural and language barriers. Activities are: Look What I Can Do, Pairs, Who`s Got the Frog, Close Encounters, Watering the Flowers, the Sausage.

All the great things from Tell A Tale are included in Tell A Tale 2. Each of the characters and locations provides an excellent starting point for children`s creative work, whether it`s stories, art or poetry there`s a wealth of material on Tell A Tale 2. Wonderful animations, simple interface, switch options, differentiation, but Tell A Tale 2 now has an adjective option.
Tell A Tale 2 has four new locations, four new characters each with a new action but also with four adjectives to each character. Combine this with three language levels and four different opening phrases this gives you over 700 possible combinations of text, background, character, adjective and action.

Features & Benefits
It's a busy time for Teddy! There's a lot to do before the Teddy Bears' Picnic - the invitations need to be written, the shopping must be chosen and paid for and Teddy wants help selecting a snazzy outfit. Once everything is prepared, Teddy has to be directed around a map to the picnic site. Then a 'picnic postcard' must be created and, finally, all the tired teddies want to record what they enjoyed most about the day on a pictogram.
Seven carefully structured activities, each at 3 levels of difficulty, encourage the development of ICT skills and understanding through focused numeracy and literacy activities. Fully narrated, the activities can be accessed individually or as part of an exciting, linear adventure.

Word Track is an easy-to-use CD, which helps pupils improve their ability to memorise and hence to learn. It is ideal for all learners with specific learning difficulties, who have particular problems with memorising spellings.
The program consists of 180 sentences of increasing phonic complexity. It provides full audio support and configurable display options. The Word Track Workbook accompanies this CD, and is full of photocopiable extension activities that use the same practical approach to improving memorising skills.


Key features
Reinforce correct spellings of words in the context of sentences
Encourage users to check each phoneme
Support the reading and spelling of high frequency words
Incorporate practising spellings by `look, say, remember, type, check` strategies
Builds keyboard skills
Support the correct use of punctuation and grammatical awareness

This series is specifically designed to support the Primary Literacy Strategy and the Literacy Hour.
Each CD-ROM contains a range of activities covering the Word, Sentence and Text strands of the framework.
Animated characters like the deep-sea diver and the chef, act as guides, taking pupils through the activities. Traditional word and letter games, such as Bingo and I Spy, are joined by interactive tasks, such as editing newspaper articles or writing letters.

All of the activities are carefully targeted to Literacy Framework objectives.

Designed to assist with the development of the key elements as specified in the National Curriculum for History, this interactive adventure is set in the time of The Great Evacuation of September 1939.
Vera and her brother Davy represent two of the million and a half people who were evacuated during this period and pupils can experience many of the problems encountered during this time.
Key features
• Chronology
• Historical knowledge and understanding
• Organisation and communication

This adventure will provide the motivation for children to find out more about life during the time of Elizabeth I and the other Tudor monarchs. Betsi is a dog that has been evicted from the royal hunting kennels for being too soft and is looking for someone to provide her with a comfortable home where she will be loved.
On her travels she meets all manner of folk from different backgrounds, sees the interiors of various buildings, hears some of the things that people were concerned about at that time and welcomes opportunities to be a good citizen. A set of resource sheets allows teachers to assess just how much information a child has learned.

This simple-to-use program enables users to learn in a way that best suits their individual learning style.
Alphabet Track:
Uses and reinforces the familiar alphabet arc format used by many structured, multi-sensory programmes for teaching learners with dyslexia
Provides a visual prompt to embed the awareness and position of each letter of the alphabet
Enables spatial awareness and correct orientation of letters
Improves visual and auditory sequential memory
Reinforces keyboard skills
It also includes a facility to record the user’s own voice when reciting the alphabet.

An integrated set of seven, fun-to-use ICT tools, Tizzy's First Tools can be quickly adapted to meet all your classroom needs.
Whether writing, painting, presenting or making charts, pupils are ably assisted by Tizzy the magical clown. Independent use is supported through colour-coding, simple interfaces and on-screen help. In addition, there are three levels of difficulty, as well as extensive teacher options.
Developed in conjunction with application experts Softease, Tizzy's First Tools is a must for every infant classroom.

Filled with colourful characters and engaging activities, Izzy`s Island has been designed specifically to fulfil many of the curriculum requirements for 4 to 5 year olds.
The carefully structured activities are supported by age-appropriate narration, attractive graphics and intuitive screen designs. The rich and varied teaching opportunities offered on Izzy`s Island are enhanced by the practical, supportive design and the 3 levels of difficulty available for each activity. This enables a task, or series of tasks, to be selected to meet each child`s learning requirement and the CD as a whole to provide a flexible, interactive teaching tool.


Key Features
• Retelling a story, vocabulary of size and colour
• Matching and sorting, counting
• Listening skills, repeating patterns
• Initial and final phonemes
• Responding to a task, rhyming words

Fizzy`s First Numbers helps children practice and develop essential counting skills within the number range 1 to 9.
A bright, colourful Main Menu provides intuitive access to nine activities. Activities include recognising numerals 1 to 9, reciting the correct sequence of number names, counting sets of objects, finding the correct set for a given number name and much more.

Need a way to get pupils thinking, solving problems and making plans? Then this could be the program for you!
Scally is a little alien who has run away from his home on the planet `Um`, join him on his adventures and discover why.
Pupils can explore up to six different places on Scallys` planet, including Air, Land and Oceans.
Key Features
• Develop problem-solving skills
• Mazes are progressively challenging
• Levels can be pre set
• Facility to design own puzzles

Features & Benefits
In the true spirit of scientific enquiry BBC Science simulations software provides a unique opportunity for primary pupils to conduct a series of ‘virtual’ scientific experiments covering several key areas of the primary science curriculum.
The simulations are closely based on the award winning BBC Science clips TV series and follow the QCA Schemes of work for Science. Each simulation provides pupils with the opportunity to select variables, control time and view the results of their experiments as animations and/or dynamically generated tables and graphs that chart the results of each combination of variables over time.

Contents
Seven interactive simulations
'Questions' mode to stimulate focused investigation
Table or graph view
Engaging graphics and simple, intuitive interface

Features & Benefits
Developed in association with the BBC Science Clips TV series, the simulations are closely linked to the QCA Schemes of Work for Science. Pupils are provided with the opportunity to select variables, control time and to view the results of their experiments as animations and/or dynamically generated tables, graphs and diagrams. Several of the simulations also have a Multi-sim feature that allows pupils to make direct comparisons by running two versions of a simulation concurrently.
Contents
Seven interactive simulations
Dynamically generated tables, graphs and diagrams
‘Questions’ mode to stimulate focused investigation
Engaging graphics and simple, intuitive controls

Features & Benefits
Developed in association with the BBC Science Clips TV series, the simulations are closely linked to the QCA Schemes of Work for Science. Pupils are provided with the opportunity to select variables, control time and to view the results of their experiments as animations and/or dynamically generated tables, graphs and diagrams. Several of the simulations also have a Multi-sim feature that allows pupils to make direct comparisons by running two versions of a simulation concurrently.
Contents
Seven interactive simulations
Dynamically generated tables, graphs and diagrams
‘Questions’ mode to stimulate focused investigation
Engaging graphics and simple, intuitive controls

Spellmate is a simple classroom resource which is designed to make the often tedious task of learning spelling easy, fun and exciting.
Pupils enter their own lists, and then choose to play one of four fun games that have been designed to help them practise and learn the correct spellings. The software can be used with weekly spelling lists, subject keywords or alongside a reading scheme to reinforce mis-read words.

Foundation/Early Learning
Introduce children to the Oxford Reading Tree Talking Stories series with this Stage 1 and 1+ CD-ROM. The 18 Click and Explore Stories have been carefully designed to introduce children to the main characters in the Oxford Reading Tree series. Children can explore the picture on each page and click to discover characters` names and hear them speak. Whilst no words appear on screen, the story can be heard by clicking on the ear button.
Click and Explore

Communicate: In Print 2 is a flexible symbol-supported desktop publishing package for creating resources such as books, worksheets newsletters and posters.
The program is supplied with the complete Widgit Rebus Symbol Set, and acts as an excellent, comprehensive set of line drawings for use in supporting literacy. Communicate: In Print 2 introduces the Rebus Coloured Symbol Set, complimenting the established black&white line drawing set. There is also an option of five skin tones to choose from allowing for more ethnically diverse and correct symbolisation.

Many mainstream primary schools is finding this program an invaluable tool in enabling genuine inclusion.


Features include:
Extensive range of line drawings and images
7,500 colour symbols
7,500 black&white symbols
1,500 coloured pictures and colourful images
Text or text and symbols
Colour and Black&White symbol sets and skin tones
Flexible layout, text and graphic boxes can be freely moved about the page
Objects can be rotated to create special effects
Graphics can be very easily flipped and inverted
Speech bubbles
Pictorial spell checker
Colourful images
Frames - great for making Flash cards and other learning materials

Including 30 delightful rhymes and over 100 activities, this CD will engross the child and the detailed listening and spelling activities will teach them letter sounds and letter recognition. Each rhyme is set to music and relates to a certain letter of the alphabet along with 4 digraphs. There is extensive, narrated on screen help, which is easily accessible with the click of a switch. Along with the ability to keep track of children`s work, 4 activities following each rhyme, there is gentle help, correction, reinforcement and rewards to encourage the child.
Key Features
• Supports NLS requirements
• Narrated on-screen help
• Easy for young children to use
• Narrated reinforcement routines
• Clear and gentle correction
• Teacher controls
• Record keeping tracks children`s work

Mr Wolf is kind and gentle but he's getting a little forgetful! As children help him in his clock repair shop, they learn the concepts, vocabulary and maths related to understanding time and telling the time. Days of the week, months of the year and seasons are also covered, and an interactive 'talking' clock adds to the fun.

IN nUMber Works, the student will have to use ther mathmetical knowledge, skills and understanding to fix the fascinating but old machinery in the factory. As they start to successfully mend the machines, they will gain in confidence and competence with numbers.
Addition and Subtraction
Number Patterns
Mulitplication, Fractions.

Number Plane contains 21 practical, focused numeracy activities, covering the number range 0-99, while introducing and developing a range of key mathematical vocabulary.

Badger Trails encourages the use of critical thinking skills whilst engrossing the child in an exciting multimedia experience. The introductory Talking Story concludes with a lost, hungry and frightened badger. The adventure immerses children into the badger's struggle as it tries to find its way home.

This resource provides short, focused tasks to help teachers introduce ICT resources to the daily maths lesson - ideal for use by individual or small groups of pupils.
Topics covered include:
The relationship between addition and subtraction
Using a number line to work out calculations
Adding and subtracting multiples of 10
Addition doubles and near double.

This resource is designed to enhance knowledge and understanding of fractions and decimals through a range of motivating and interactive activities.

Features include:
Learn about proper, improper and equivalent fractions
Consolidate knowledge of decimals to two and three places
Understand and practice using mixed numbers.

This resource is aimed to develop pupils knowledge and understanding of multiplication and division and is excellent for modelling ideas and methods.

This resource is ideal for use by individual or pairs of pupils within the daily maths lesson. Colourfully illustrated, interactive activities provide practice in multiplication and division.

From very simple to quite hard sequencing exercises with repeating patterns of objects, fruit, vegetables, people, dominoes, animals, dinosaurs etc. Each screen has a corresponding `certificate` screen that can be personalized with the learner`s name and printed out. All screens have an `Information` button explaining them. Over 300 exercises.

Freddy Teddy tackles all sorts of cross-curricular challenges in this Bumper Pack.
• In The Zoo Freddy counts animals from 1 to 5 or 10, randomly or in sequence.
• In Balloons Freddy must rescue a ball by recognising, or adding, numbers to 5 or 10.

Using the progressive keypads, pupils use simple directional language to control the on-screen turtle. Pupils will start with single instructions that the turtle reacts to immediately and move on to sequences of instructions. The program is supplied with a large number of curriculum-related backgrounds that provide scenarios, such as getting the turtle around obstacles or to a particular place. This resource offers a choice of turtle types, the flexibility to export your project into Writer 2 and also records the sequence of instructions created for the turtle.

Sellardore Tales is a unique animated text adventure designed to complement supportive reading strategies in primary and secondary schools. The package is presented in an age-appropriate, grown up style to meet the needs of older pupils while keeping to a reading age of 7-8 years.
Chapter-based activity sheets extend language work, encourage creative writing and provide cross-curricular activities. Sentence sequencing, cloze exercises, word searches, expressing points of view, giving instructions and describing characters are just some of the skills developed.
Sellardore Tales turns reluctant readers into have-a-go students. They will need to read, think and plan in order to help villagers un-block the Black River and overcome Zorin, the true evil of Sellardore...
Support Material includes Talking Storybook, Handbook, Illustrated Reading Book and 20 Activity Sheets.
Key Features
• 56 page reader `Zorin, the curse of Sellardore` sets the scene
• Handbook complete with solution keeps you one step ahead
• Ideas for linked work in Creative Writing and Art

Create unique graphics, fancy logos and rollover effects with BlackCat Spider. Key features are:
Create multiple pages
Construct text-fields
Add graphical objects
Insert animations
Link individual pages
Fill graphical objects with solid colours, images or even colour-bands
Apply shadow effects to give the final touch
BlackCat Spider integrates all the necessary steps to generate a home page on the Internet. With BlackCat Spider's user-friendly approach, both layout, design and publication to the Internet is done in an easy and straightforward way.

A full implementation of Logo, from simple turtle graphics to list processing
Customisable on-screen control pad
Built-in protractor and ruler features
Over 100 projects suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities
Supports the Valiant floor turtle
BlackCat Logo is suitable for a range of ages through the use of four built-in levels. New levels can also be created by the teacher to suit individuals or groups of pupils.

A versatile and stimulating musical compostion program that can be used by those with little or no musical knowledge or technique, or by more advanced musicians.
Features include:
Ability to experiment with over 70 different musical projects of varying musical styles
Includes a unique technique of using pictures and names to represent musical phrases
Capacity to save your composition for use in Web pages or other musical applications
Choose from 128 instruments
Select either a grid display or multi-track music sequencer
Numerous music controls including tempo and loop
Suitable for a range of ages through the use of four built in levels

Logotron Visual Fractions is a powerful new tool for teachers, providing many new learning opportunities through its unique visual representation of fractional relationships.

Ideal for use by the teacher or pupil on a classroom whiteboard, Logotron Visual Fractions comes with a rich palette of visual maths objects that can be dynamically connected together and their properties varied with just a point and a click.

What can it do?

Using a selection of simple tools, you can connect mathematical objects to show a wide variety of dynamic teaching points that just aren't possible in any other way. Logotron Visual Fractions comes with a large number of pre-prepared activities that can enhance and extend your teaching of fractions from year 2 - 6 and beyond.

Connecting objects and creating visual relationships on the screen gives a new opportunity for teachers and pupils to understand those hard-to-grasp fraction concepts.

Children will quickly see the behaviour of fractions, decimal fractions, percentages, ratio, picture fractions, group fractions and more, where they may have struggled to understand with traditional methods. Ratio work, in particular, is given a refreshing degree of clarity by Logotron Visual Fractions.

Logotron Visual Fractions activity screens can be combined together into saved script sequences, allowing you to prepare your own visual frameworks to be used as part of your teaching and retrieved from disk whenever you need to use them again.