Videos

Curriculum in Action

• Active learning methodologies
  • Watch teachers from St Dominic's Grammar School use Active learning methodologies to enhance their pupils learning experience
• Assessment for learning
  • Watch Corinne Hannah from Glenwood Primary School using Assessment For Learning techniques during lessons to enhance the pupils learning
• Connected learning
  • Watch Ann McErlane from Mount St Michael's Primary School discuss the merits of connected learning and demonstrate how these are translated through into the classroom
• Planning and implementing the curriculum
  • Watch Sharon Dobbin, principle of St John Bosco's Primary School discuss the planning and implementation of the revised curriculum

Technology in Action

• Mediascape
  • Watch teachers from Termoncannice Primary School discuss their recent mediascapes projects.
• Podcasts
  • Watch Jonnie Palmer from Rainey Endowed School discuss how podcasts can be used to enhance learning inside and outside the classroom
• Video
  • Watch Joanne Murray from Cookstown Primary discuss the potential of video in the classroom
• Whiteboards
  • Watch Kyle Platt from Finaghy Primary School discuss and demonstrate the functionality of the whiteboard

Connected Learning - KS2 Water

• What is water?
  • BBC Primary Focus: Water- Journey of Water
• Who needs water?
  • BBC Primary Focus: Green Power- Hydro Electric Power
  • BBC News Report: Tidal Power in Strangford
• Our loughs and rivers
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Ecosystems - Lough Neagh
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Ecosystems - Strangford Lough
  • BBC Primary Focus: Strangford Lough: Habitats
  • BBC Primary Focus: Strangford Lough: Brent Geese
  • BBC Primary Focus: Strangford Lough: Foods & Habitats
  • BBC Primary Focus: Strangford Lough: People & Environment
  • BBC Primary Focus: Strangford Lough: Brent Geese
  • BBC Primary Focus: Go with the Flow: Salmon
• A rivers story
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Rivers - Upper Course
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Rivers - Middle Course
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Rivers - Meanders
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Rivers- Lower Course
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Coast: Tourism

Connected Learning - KS2 Linen

• How linen is made
  • BBC Primary Focus: The Textile Industry : Flax
  • BBC Primary Focus: Linen - How linen is made
  • BBC Primary Focus: Linen -Linen Production
  • BBC Primary Focus: Linen - Bleaching & Dying
• Uses of linen
  • Primary Focus: The Textile Industry: Mummies
• The linen industry in Northern Ireland
  • Primary Focus: Linen- History of Linen
  • Primary Focus: Linen: How linen is made
  • Primary Focus: Linen: Linen Production
  • BBC Primary Focus the Textile Industry - Sion Mills
  • BBC Newsline: Herdman's factory in Sion Mills Closes
  • BBC Newsline: Restoration of Herdman's factory in Sion Mills
• Is it ethical?
  • BBC Addicted to Cheap Clothing: How Clothes got Cheaper
  • BBC Citizenship Programme: Child labour and Fair Trade
  • BBC News: Topshop launches Fair Trade range
  • BBC Breakfast: Growth of Ethical Fashion
• Natural and manmade fabrics
  • BBC Primary Focus: The Textile Industry - Materials
  • BBC Primary Focus: The Textile Industry: How Lycra is made
  • BBC Primary Focus: Linen: How Linen is Made

Connected Learning - KS2 On the move

• What makes animals move?
  • BBC Primary Focus-Strangford Lough: Brent Geese
  • BBC Primary Focus: Go with the Flow : Salmon
• How do we travel, now and in the past?
  • BBC Primary Focus: Canals: Use of Canals
  • BBC Primary Focus: Think Global, Act Local :Traffic survey in Aughnacloy
  • BBC Primary Focus: Traffic Survey - Traffic congestion
• BBC Primary Focus: Traffic Survey- Traffic Control Care
• BBC Primary Focus: Traffic Survey - Effects of a Bypass
• BBC Primary Focus: Traffic Survey - Newry Traffic
• BBC Primary Focus- Think Local, Act Global: Electric Cars
• BBC Primary Focus- Traffic Survey: Reduce Traffic
• BBC Primary Focus- Think Local, Act Global: Transport Alternatives
• BBC Primary Focus- Think Local, Act Global: Pollution and Climate Change
• BBC Primary Focus: Canals: Use of Canals
• BBC Primary Focus: Canals: Newry Canal
• BBC Primary Focus: Canals: Lagan Canal
• BBC Primary Focus: Canals: Ulster Canal
• BBC Primary Focus: Canals: Shannon-Erne Waterway
• BBC Primary Focus: Canals: Go with the Flow: Lisburn weir and Canal
• Water, Light, Sound & Energy
  • BBC Primary Focus: Water- Journey of Water
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Rivers: Upper courses
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked: Rivers: Lower and middle courses
  • BBC Landscapes Unlocked Clip: Rivers: Meanders
  • BBC News Story: Slurry Pollution
  • BBC News Story: Lough Neagh Pollution
  • BBC Primary Focus: Light & Sound: Sun & Earth
  • BBC Primary Focus: Light & Sound: Shadows & Light
  • BBC Primary Focus: Light & Sound: Speed of Light & Sound
  • BBC Primary Focus: Light & Sound: Refraction
  • BBC Primary Focus - Light & Sound: Sound Travelling in air
  • BBC Primary Focus - Light & Sound: Sound Travelling in water
  • BBC Primary Focus - Light & Sound: Pitch
  • BBC Primary Focus - Light & Sound: Sound waves
  • BBC Primary Focus - Forces and Energy: Movement
  • BBC Primary Focus - Forces and Energy: Friction & Gravity
  • BBC Primary Focus - Forces and Energy: Friction & Resistance
  • BBC Primary Focus - Forces and Energy Rockets
  • BBC Primary Focus - Forces and Energy Levers
  • BBC Primary Focus - Green Power: Hydroelectric power
  • BBC Primary Focus - Green Power: Water wheels
  • BBC Primary Focus - Green Power: Wind power
  • BBC Primary Focus - Green Power: Wind turbines

Connected Learning - KS3 Ethical Fashion

• History - The linen industry in NI
  • BBC Primay Focus: Linen - How linen is made
  • BBC Primay Focus: Linen - Bleaching & Spinning
  • BBC Primary Focus: Linen -The history of Linen in Northern Ireland
  • BBC Primary Focus: The Textile Industry- Herdman's mill, Sion Mills
  • BBC Newsnight: Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts
• Geography - Fashion & the environment
  • BBC News: GM Cotton in India
  • BBC News: Report on Ecological Disaster in the Aral Sea Region
  • BBC News: Fashion Designer talks about Consumer Power
• Citizenship - The cost of cheap fashion
  • BBC Breakfast: Growth of Ethical Fashion
  • BBC Newsnight: Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts
  • BBC Citizenship: The Price of Fashion: Multinational Companies
  • BBC Citizenship: The Price of Fashion - Consumer Power
• Personal Development - Fashion and self image
  • BBC Sunday Am: Kate Winslet discusses how young girls need healthy role models.
  • BBC News: Kate Winslet's figure is airbrushed for magazine cover
• Employability - Working in fashion
  • BBC Newsnight: Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts
  • BBC Breakfast: Growth of Ethical Fashion

Connected Learning - KS3 You are what you eat

• Local and Global Citizenship - The cost of our food
  • BBC News: Chef fails in bid to improve Chicken Welfare
  • BBC Countryfile: Taste of Chicken
  • BBC News: GM Crops
  • BBC News: Pork Dioxin Scare