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.

4 CDs: Egyptians & Ancient Greeks; Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings; Tudors; and Victorians and 20th Century Britain

Get all 15 Oxford Reading Tree CD-ROM single user titles :

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 1 and 1+ Talking Stories

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 2 Talking Stories

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 3 Talking Stories

Oxford Reading Tree Stage 4

Oxford Reading Tree Stage 4 B More Talking Stories

Oxford Reading Tree Stage 5

Oxford Reading Tree Stage 5 More C Talking Stories

Oxford Reading Tree:Stage 6 and 7 Talking Stories

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 8 and 9 Talking Stories

Oxford Reading Tree: TreeTops Stage 10 and 11

Oxford Reading Tree First Phonics Talking Stories - Stage 1

Oxford Reading Tree First Phonics Talking Stories - Stage 2

Oxford Reading Tree First Phonics Talking Stories - Stage 3

Wolf Hill Level 1 Talking Stories

Wolf Hill Level 2 Talking Stories

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.

Product Features
2D Animation
Cartoon Shows
Animated Comic Books
Satire Sketches
Talking Photos
Actor Fitting: Face Only
Animation: Face and Body
Puppeteering: Basic Profile Control
Timeline: Basic Tracks
Export: HD Video, Image Sequence, 3D Stereo

as described

For visual mapping; outlining; writing and making presentations; use Inspiration 9; the ultimate thinking and learning tool. Brainstorm ideas; structure your thoughts and visually communicate concepts to strengthen understanding with the Diagram and Map Views. To take notes; organise information; and structure writing for plans; essays and reports; use the integrated Outline View. With Inspiration's Presentation Manager; transform your diagrams; mind maps and outlines into polished presentations that communicate ideas clearly and demonstrate understanding and knowledge.

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.

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
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.

Introduction
Get your child in the garden, get sowing and harvesting and they will learn to grow all kinds of plants, vegetables and fruits quickly and easily!


No need to wait months for results: they'll be able to follow the simple instructions to raise fantastic plants in twelve weeks or much less.

Soon they'll have tasty tomatoes and delicious strawberries, pretty marigolds and sprouting seeds ready to eat in a week.

There are fun projects, too: from making a pizza garden and growing a fairy ring, to designing a wildlife windowbox.


And you don't even need a garden: there are lots of ideas for using containers, baskets and boxes. So get ready, get steady and get growing!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

With over 120 exercises to teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, time, length, weight, percentages, negative numbers, geometry and fractions this is ideal for younger learners. Pupils can practice mental arithmetic methods like counting, addition of hundreds, tens and ones and reverse calculations. Other exercises promote understanding of whole numbers and decimals. Teachers can use MathsWiz 1 to create individual learning programs and to record each pupil's results. They can also create additional questions and exercises.

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..!

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

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

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 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 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

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
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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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