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The resource is in response to the current Coronavirus issue. It is a WORD CLOUD that can be printed out, laminated and put on notice boards. The wording of the World Health Organisation webpage was used to produce the word cloud. There is also an instruction sheet to enable teachers and students to make their own images with different topics, colours and shapes.

Free resource! This is a PowerPoint presentation comprising 21 slides of which 8 are pictures showing 14 recent uses of solar energy by various countries across the world. In a rapidly changing world this presentation gives teachers and their students up-to-date knowledge. • Up to date information about the uses of solar cells including: • An engaging and visually attractive PowerPoint • Class practical instructions • A quiz for average ability • teacher guidance • SEN adaptation • differentiation opportunities • use of new technologies • health and safety • enrichment • extension homework Could be used in conjunction with Independent Research Project template and teacher guidance - differentiation tool- solar Can be used as part of an energy lesson, or a STEM day project.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government’s Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students (this one) • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students (this one) • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students (this one) • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

A fun, seasonable Christmas activity that can be used in many time slots but has an underlying more serious purpose. This activity encourages creative thinking, a skill that will be vital in the workplace. Although the resource looks simple it can be an excellent differentiation tool. The resource consists of a PowerPoint slide with a series of ‘answers’ relating to Father Christmas’s career. Students are asked to create questions that would give these answers. The activity can be set up as a completion with completing teams and maybe a Christmas prize. This resource has been designed to help schools achieve the Gatsby Benchmarks https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/schools-colleges/understand-gatsby-benchmarks Particularly 4 Linking curriculum learning to careers. All teachers should link curriculum learning with careers. As schools seek ways of reaching the Gatsby Benchmarks, these documents will help subject teachers contribute in a way they have never done before. NCW 2019 Ofsted Careers Handbook https://nationalcareersweek.com/ncw-2019-ofsted-careers-handbook/ Subject teachers may not be familiar with careers in their subject, indeed may never have considered it. Jobs available have changed radically since many teachers were trained. These resources are designed to help subject teachers update their knowledge on this topic. There is a series of twelve sheets which list careers that can be followed featuring the main subjects: Art, Computing, Drama, Design Technology, English, Humanities, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, Physical Education and Science. They can be found individually or as a Careers bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/careers-information-for-every-department-for-twelve-subjects-12219064 There are detailed spreadsheets linking careers to modules taught for chemistry and physics. Careers in chemistry https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/careers-in-chemistry-meet-gatsby-benchmarks-12183177 Careers in physics https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/careers-opportunities-in-physics-meet-gatsby-benchmarks-12182192

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government’s Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital foundation skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills for teachers • Digital Foundation skills for students • Digital Communication skills for teachers • Digital Communication skills for students • Digital Handling Information and content for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content for students • Digital Transaction skills for teachers • Digital Transaction skills for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills for students (this one) • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills for teachers (this one) • Digital Handling Information and Content skills for students • Digital Transaction audit skills for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for students (this one) The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

A fun, seasonable Easter activity that can be used in many time slots but has an underlying more serious purpose. This activity encourages creative thinking, a skill that will be vital in the workplace. Although the resource looks simple it can be an excellent differentiation tool. The resource consists of a PowerPoint slide with a series of ‘answers’ relating to the Easter bunny’s career. Students are asked to create questions that would give these answers. The activity can be set up as a completion with completing teams and maybe an Easter prize. Careers information is increasingly important for students. Teachers need help. This resource has been designed to help schools achieve the Gatsby Benchmarks Particularly 4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers. All teachers should link curriculum learning with careers. As schools seek ways of reaching the Gatsby Benchmarks, these documents will help subject teachers contribute in a way they have never done before. NCW 2019 Ofsted Careers Handbook Subject teachers may not be familiar with careers in their subject, indeed may never have considered it. Jobs available have changed radically since many teachers were trained. These resources are designed to help subject teachers update their knowledge on this topic. This is a series of twelve sheets which list careers that can be followed featuring the main subjects: Art, Computing, Drama, Design Technology, English, Humanities, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, Physical Education and Science. They can be found individually or as a Careers bundle There are detailed spreadsheets linking careers to modules taught for chemistry and physics. Careers in chemistry Careers in physics

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content audit for students (this one) • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving audit skills for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills for audit students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers (this one) • [Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students](Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students) The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

This document gives advice to parents having to home school their children during the corona virus pandemic. The information is in two sections. There are ideas for free activities that engage young people such as on-line art, CAD, cartoon design, game design, music and painting. There is also a list of places to find resources.

Ideal for catch up post pandemic. Also a differentiation tool. NOW WITH ADDED TEACHERS’ GUIDE. This is ONE of a family of 14 resources aimed to encourage independent research skills for more able students. There is a blank template and example topics including: batteries (hyperlink) , electromagnetism, graphene, industrial processes, magnetism, making electricity, manufacture of polymers, metals, nanotechnology, newest elements ( atomic numbers over 100), rocks, solar energy, wind generation, This a one of many differentiation tools available to teachers. Research topics can be done in class, with books, in libraries, in rooms with computers or tablets. These topics would make an ideal cover lesson. Research could be published in a school newsletter, the school website or blog or in student publication magazines and blogs. Duration: This depends on the age and ability of the students. For youngest students it could be for a week’s homework. As students get older the tasks could be set for half a term, even a whole term, could be linked with a science fair, STEM activity, open evening, assembly or business or commerce event.

Knowledge does not exist in little compartments and nor does learning. This is one of eleven documents in a cross curricular series of subjects with science - cc 5 geography and science. Cross curricular learning is important for students enabling them construct their understanding of the world. These are: Art and science; 2. Drama and science; 3. Food technology and science; 4. English and science; 5. Geography and science; 6. History and science; 7. Maths and science; 8. MfL and science; 9. Music and science; 10. ICT and science; 11. PE and science designed to help teachers make links between subjects. Schools could organise projects so that every subject is covered at least once during a student’s stay in the school. Enriching both the student and the teachers. Ideas are listed as basic, intermediate and advanced. In primary schools suggestions in the basic area and for more able students in the intermediate area are suggested. Secondary schools younger students or those with learning difficulties may benefit from basic and intermediate suggestions. Advanced project ideas can be used with older or more able students. In addition, the ideas can be used for enrichment and extension activities. Students who have been given opportunities to study topics of particular interest to them have on occasions gone on to do a PhD in those areas. Teachers using these resources may be interested in the series of careers linked to specific subjects. Subject teachers may not be familiar with careers in their subject, indeed may never have considered it. Jobs available have changed radically since many teachers were trained. The resources are designed to help subject teachers update their knowledge on this topic and achieve the Gatsby Benchmarks particularly number 4 linking curriculum learning to careers - Try Careers bundle Careers advice for primary schools and Transferable skills