Congratulations to the Summer Games Competition Winners!

…..and the Winner is!

Pearson Fronter hosted a WOW (wonderful online winners’) event this morning, Friday 22nd June,  when around 500 youngsters and their teachers learned if they had won prizes in the Summer Games Creative Design Competition.

Teachers from all over the UK  put in some excellent competition entries:
Prizes went to members of staff from Rushey Mead School, Leicester City; Tuke School, Southwark;  and St Edmund’s School, Enfield.

Pupil prizes were awarded to youngsters from:

Park Road Primary, Sale
Charville Primary, Hillingdon
Heavers Farm Primary, Croydon
Southend High School for Girls, Southend
Oak Parks High School, Redbridge
Canons High School, Harrow

Special mentions were given to pupils from the top 20 school entries. Well done all of you! 

Charville Primary School	Hillingdon
Merton Park Primary School	Merton
Parklands Junior School	Havering
Cannon Lane Junior School	Harrow
Heaversfarm Primary School	Croydon
Southend high school for girls	Southend
St Edmund’s Catholic Primary School	Enfield
Charville Primary School	Hillingdon
Canons High School	Harrow
Lowe’s Wong Junior School	Nottinghamshire
Oaks Park High School	Redbridge
Park Road Primary School, Sale	Trafford LEA
Merton Park Primary School	Merton
Moriah Jewish Day School	Harrow
Walthamstow School for Girls	Waltham Forest
Central Foundation Girls’ School	Tower Hamlets
Horniman Primary School (3 special mentions)	Lewisham
Newnham Junior School	Hillingdon

Congratulations to you all!  

Our thanks go to everyone who entered – we received well over 600 entries. We enjoyed looking at each and every one of them and we’ll let you all know very soon about our next Pearson Fronter schools’ competition!

Winners of the Fronter Creative Design Competition to be Announced!

The waiting will soon be over for some talented young designers and their teachers.

On Friday June 22nd at 11.30am the winners of  the Fronter Creative Design Competition will be announced during a live Elluminate session.

Results will be posted here and on Twitter soon afterwards.

Good luck everyone!  :)

Follow us on Twitter: @FronterUK ,  @Fronterjane, @FronterRosemary, @FronterDeb and @FronterSteve.

Pearson Fronter trainers achieve top rating!

Pearson Fronter trainers collected a resounding 100% customer satisfaction rating from their trainees during the month of May. 

Here are a few of the things teachers said about their Pearson Fronter  VLE trainers:

‘Excellent knowledgeable trainer.  Superb pace.  Nothing was too much effort.  Fantastic!’  (Advanced Admin course)

‘I am really pleased with what I have learnt today, I feel more confident when using Fronter. I cannot wait to start to make changes to my rooms, creating homepages, adding flash, videos, forums and tests in lesson. Fronter will be implemented in most of my lessons from now on, whether it be a quick starter, main or plenary. There are so many things you can do with it.’ (LGfL training day)

‘The course was hugely useful and helpful and very brilliantly explained…’ ( e1 training)

‘It was a  very enjoyable computer course, it was great working in pairs and M was a great teacher.  I have learned not to fear VLE now.  Thank you.  I look forward to using Fronter in the future.’  (Belfast Fronter demo workshop)

‘I thoroughly enjoyed the day.  An excellent introduction to Fronter for a complete novice.  Pace was fast but perfectly pitched for the group.  J was very approachable and clear.’ (NI Fronter workshop)

For more info about Pearson Fronter training, follow this link.

Using Fronter to Promote the Online Staffroom

Have you ever wondered how you can make better use of the facilities in your online staff room?  If you have, then today’s Wednesday Webinar might have just the answers you’re looking for.

Starting at 4.30pm (Wed 9 May) one of our friendly trainers will be exploring ways to make your virtual staffroom more effective and a more useful resource. 

For more info, follow this link Promoting your Staff Room webinar

Wednesday Webinars are free of charge to all teachers who have Fronter in their school and are a great way to meet and network with other Fronter users.

Don’t forget, you can follow me and the Fronter team on Twitter @Fronterjane and @FronterUK

Fronter Roadshow Belfast and Northern Ireland

Team Fronter (Gary and Jane) have been made extremely welcome this week on the C2K/Northgate Roadshow.

We’ve met plenty of enthusiastic teachers from all over Northern Ireland who have  really impressed with their positive commitment to online learning. The Ready-to-Go rooms seem to have become a favourite item.

Watch this space for photos soon.

How to Increase the Logins to your Virtual School

This week’s Fronter Wednesday Webinar is all about helping you to increase traffic to your learning platform.

The session will be led by one of our friendly trainers and will be held online at 4.30pm on Wednesday 2nd May. It will last for about 30 minutes and is open to all teachers who have the Fronter learning platform in their school.

Take a look at this Wednesday Webinar link if you would like more info.

If you’ve not checked out the webinars before, then why not take a look! You’ll be made very welcome

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For more snippets of Fronter news, follow the Fronter team on Twitter @FronterUK, and follow individual trainers  @Fronterjane, @FronterRosemary and @FronterSteve

Diamond Jubilee

The Diamond Jubilee Room is ready for download.  

Encourage your pupils to join in with  Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee by opening up  Fronter’s ‘Diamond Jubilee Room’.

You will find lots of learning activities to help children celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The room contains activities, historical information, great links, video and discussions to give your school the opportunity to engage with this exciting Jubilee.

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To download the room, go to http://www.frontersupport.com>support resources>downloads  - here you will find the download and an instruction video.

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Southend Champion Awards – a Great Success!

Richard Poth from Sacred Heart Primary School in Southend was presented yesterday with the Southend Fronter Champion Teacher Award. He received this prestigious prize from Justin Reilly, the MD of Fronter, who told Richard he had been, ‘An inspiration to many other teachers in Southend and beyond.’

Sacred Heart School now becomes the Champion School in Southend for the next academic year.

The Award ceremony took place at the Celebrating Success in Southend event, which also saw prizes being given to Fronter teachers and pupils in the Best Fronter Room and Best Fronter Page categories.

Sarah Imbush of Southend Girls’ High School and Nicky Barratt of Belfairs School, both received Ambassador Status on behalf of their schools.

Mark Lawrence of Southend High School for Boys won a special category prize for his Fronter room.

Congratulations to all the winners!

 

 

East Midlands Fronter Event Today!

A big welcome for delegates at the Fronter East Midlands conference which is getting underway with a stirring and inspirational presentation from eLearning evangalist Russell Prue.

Russell is talking about the amazing power of social networking and blogging and their collective impact on education.

Global brands are looking increasingly to Facebook for advertising and recruiting; Russell suggests that teachers could be more aware that this is the world their pupils are operating within. ‘Where schools create mutually workable Acceptable Use Policies, then Facebook can be safely accessible in school for pupils’ educational benefits’  he says.

Russell is also enthusing about the Harrison Primary School DVD – it’s a super twist on the usual sports day/drama presentation!   http://harrisonprimaryschool.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

Fronter N Yorks Roadshow Day 2 – Children from Kirby Hill

Children from Kirby Hill school are presenting this morning, on Day 2 of the Fronter North Yorkshire Roadshow. This is what they have to say!

Royal Wedding

Pupils are telling delegates about their own ‘Royal Wedding’ which they held in school and are now proudly showing on their Fronter learning platform.

Year 6 Mentors

Year 6 children were ‘enlisted’ to help with the initial roll out of Fronter. They were invited to join ‘Fronter Club’ to help them to become familiar with the facilities available in the learning platform before they began to act as eLearning mentors for other pupils.

Messaging across the school

Kirby Hill made the decision to allow messaging throughout the school; they find it easy to manage and very beneficial for effective school communications.

Contrasting localities in Geography lessons

Setting up this aspect of the geography curriculum rolled along more quickly and effectively than first anticipated! The children become involved and engaged with the topic very readily indeed.

Fairtrade topic

Kirby Hill set up a room for the Fairtrade topic in geography, but found that an added benefit was how easy it was to add a link to their newly acquired Fairtrade School status.

Links to Brunei

Time differences presented no problem to North Yorkshire children wishing to communicate with school friends in Brunei. Children have been using Fronter to share learning tasks and activities, they use the vote tool to check each others’ opinions and forums to discuss their ideas.

After School Club

Activity news from the Kirby Hill After School Club has been well received by parents – they can keep up to date easily with what is going on week by week, and make sure their children have all the right kit for their activities!

Update / Reboot

Kirby Hill have found that like any resource in school, their Fronter Learning Platform needs to be kept fresh and interesting. So, last Christmas they organised a Nativity Quest which guided the children through areas of Fronter which they needed to be reminded about, as well as helping them to learn about the Nativity.

Created by Kids 4 Kids

Year 5 Children at Kirkby Hill have been given ‘ownership’ of some subject areas  -they are creating pages for music, ICT, MFL amongst others. There are plans for more subjects to be added next term. Teachers also make subject areas and the areas work in parallel.

eSafety

eSafety is very important at Kirby Hill. Children are confident that their space is safe and they have easy access to excellent eSafety materials from sites such as http://www.thinkuknow.com

I like Fronter because…..

…….it’s like Facebook, but better

……we (children) can edit pages in Maths and English

……..it’s amazing

……you can learn computer rules to be safe

……it’s safe

……you can speak to your friends safely – it is locked by a password

………….you can learn things

A really super presentation children  - thank you!!!