Issue #2 – 17th January 2025
Hello Everyone!
Welcome back and happy new year. I trust you all had a relaxing festive break.
It’s been a busy start to the term for us so I missed sending you last week’s edition. Meaning it’s a bumper edition today!
Lots of training opportunities for you this week and I would also like to take the opportunity to highlight tech developments within South Tyneside that are helping our teachers and students.
Go to this page to book your place
https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/events
BBC Micro:bits
Get 2025 off to a flying start by making sure you’re getting the most out of your BBC micro:bits.
If you enjoy learning with others, these upcoming webinars allow you to join a group, listen to first-hand explanations, and ask questions in real time:
Introducing micro:bit CreateAI
Learn about our new free online tool for teaching and learning about AI with the micro:bit.
Getting started with the micro:bit
Wednesday 5 February 16:00 GMT
A beginner’s guide to using the micro:bit in the primary classroom.
The Institute of Imagination’s BBC micro:bit – the next gen webinars
Sign up and attend to receive a FREE £150 accessories kit.
Limited spaces available!
Thursday 23 January 2025 at 16:00 GMT
Wednesday 5 February 2025 at 16:00 GMT
STYHA – South Tyneside Young Health Ambassadors
We partnered with STYHA to support them in developing a website and podcast on mental health and wellbeing.
This was a hugely successful campaign and we would like to share the website with you and your school community. There are lots of useful information pages and interviews with South Tyneside services who support our young people.
Please share this with your staff and students.
https://sites.google.com/ictinschools.org/styha/home
Stronger Schools South Tyneside
https://southtyneside.strongerschools.org/
Stronger Schools delivers health and wellbeing guidance for educators and other school staff working with primary-school-aged children.
It contains pathways to help school staff recognise and respond to the wellbeing needs of children and provides strengths-based, early-intervention strategies.
Stronger Schools describes how to get support for children, families, and schools when needed from in-school and community-based services.
The content in Stronger Schools is developed with schools and local health and wellbeing professionals, drawing on their knowledge to ensure the information reflects the local system and expert opinion.
Stronger Schools is delivered by an innovative online platform that allows local information to be incorporated into nationally-consistent guidance.
Logging in is very simple, there is one username and password that can be shared with all STAFF – this is not for pupils to access.
Thank you for reading this week’s edition!
Stay tuned for more ed tech news, practical classroom ideas, and leadership tips in next week’s update.
Have a topic you’d like covered?
Feel free to reach out with suggestions or feedback.
Have a lovely weekend
Phillippa
