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Primary Courses
Flights of Adventure for Y2 and Y3
The Flights of Adventure courses stimulate and
challenge the non-fiction writing skills of groups of
pupils who are gifted and talented in literacy.
This course encourages pupils to release the
hidden superhero inside us all!
With the guidance of
a DLC teacher, pupils explore global issues affecting
the world today, by reading and analysing a variety of
online non-fiction texts.
What super powers and skills will our modern-day
superhero need to save the planet?
Children
write their own superhero fact files and develop their speaking and listening
skills along the way.
All in a day’s work for a superhero!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Flights of Adventure Y2 and Y3 | Small group | Y2 and Y3 pupils who are gifted
and talented in literacy | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Flights of Adventure for Y3 and Y4
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to
live the glamorous life of one of Britain’s top secret
agents?
Now your pupils can find out as they join the
M.I.S.S Spy Academy and research the lives of secret
agents using online biographies and websites.
Under the guidance of a DLC teacher, the
group prepare for a crucial mission, designing an
amazing gadget to take with them.
Looking at the
real life story of Alexander Litvinenko, pupils create
instructional texts and news reports on their way to saving the world so that
we may sleep safely in our beds tonight!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Flights of Adventure Y3 and Y4 | Small group | Y3 and Y4 pupils who are gifted
and talented in literacy | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Flights of Adventure for Y5 and Y6
‘Is there anybody out there?’ Little green men
and flying saucers crash-land on Earth.
Fact or fiction?
Your pupils will don their investigative rain-macs
alongside a DLC teacher to explore the infamous
Roswell Incident.
Scouring online news and eyewitness
reports, both contemporary and modern,
the group will gradually piece together exactly what
happened in July 1947.
Journalistic, persuasive and formal writing skills
will all be put to the test whilst creating a range of online written pieces of
work.
Just make sure you watch out for the death-rays!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Flights of Adventure Y5 and Y6 | Small group | Y5 and Y6 pupils who are gifted
and talented in literacy | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Flights of Fancy for Y1 and Y2
The Flights of Fancy courses stimulate and
challenge the narrative skills of groups of pupils
who are gifted and talented in literacy.
Your Y1
and Y2 pupils will use the adjective-packed and
superbly slimy story Toad by Ruth Brown as their
inspiration.
Our DLC teacher will encourage pupils to
explore the powerful adjectives in the text and how
they are used to good effect.
From this they will develop ICT and online
research skills by finding out more about animals, before using their research
to write a story so bursting with description it may well leap off the screen and
hop away!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Flights of Fancy Y1and Y2 | Small group | Y1 and Y2 pupils who are gifted
and talented in literacy | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Flights of Fancy for Y3 and Y4
A DLC teacher will guide your Y3 and Y4 pupils
through a detailed study of the stunning illustrated
book The Whales’ Song by Dyan Sheldon and
Gary Blythe.
Pupils examine carefully the use
of similes and how they create atmosphere, and
consider the way characters’ feelings and emotions
are expressed through text and illustration.
When they move onto planning and developing
their own online narrative, the finished result
should be simile-spectacular!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Flights of Fancy Y3 and Y4 | Small group | Y3 and Y4 pupils who are gifted and talented in literacy | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Flights of Fancy for Y5 and Y6
Using the artwork of Chris Van Allsburg as
a stimulus, a DLC teacher will guide your pupils
through the process of creating an original short
story online.
By introducing pupils to a ‘story staircase’ they
will be challenged to improve both the structure of
their story and their creativity.
Research on the Internet will allow pupils to
create a carefully constructed setting for their story,
and they will be encouraged to evaluate their own
and each other’s stories with sensitivity.
Pupils will be justly proud of their finished
masterpieces!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Flights of Fancy Y5 and Y6 | Small group | Y5 and Y6 pupils who are gifted and talented in literacy | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Internet Awareness
Primary schools sometimes worry that they don’t have the knowledge or
the expertise to teach their pupils e-safety properly.
That’s why our Internet
Awareness programme has been carefully created by teachers qualified in
Internet safety issues, to provide everything a school needs to deliver e-safety
education to their pupils without any specialist knowledge needed on the part
of the classroom teacher.
E-safety education needs to start from an early age, and with this in mind
our programme is split into two separate courses, Get Set for the Net which
is aimed at Y2 pupils, and Y5 and Y6 Net Safety for upper KS2.
Together these
provide age-appropriate and non-threatening coverage of every area of Internet
safety, from the importance of personal information to knowing who you can
trust, from chat-rooms to e-mail, from web browsing to mobile phones, and
from instant messaging to cyberbullying.
The pre-recorded lessons and detailed teacher notes that can be used in
the classroom are backed up by a range of follow-up quizzes, stories, websites
and worksheets, enabling every school to be confident in their pupils’ ability to
stay safe.
Course type: Whole Class
Target audience:Y2, Y5 and Y6
Number of Lessons: 4 x Y2, 6 x KS2 plus additional resources
Cost for Annual Site Licence
| Number on Roll in School | Cost |
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| Less than 50 | £25 |
| 50-99 | £50 |
| 100-199 | £100 |
| 200-399 | £200 |
| 400-699 | £350 |
| 700 + | Contact Us |
Literacy Boosters for Y6
Our Literacy Booster course brings together
a group of Y6 pupils working at L3 to give them a
boost in preparation for their KS2 SATs.
The units
concentrate on each of the main genres of writing:
report, narrative and persuasion.
Under the expert
guidance of a DLC teacher, pupils revise the key
features of each genre, and apply this knowledge to
their own writing.
Using our special online website,
pupils can write their own examples of each genre, and
receive supportive feedback from our teachers at all stages.
Pupils enjoy developing their ideas and sharing their work with each
other in the virtual classroom.
The course finishes with a four lesson unit on
comprehension, where pupils are supported to fine-tune their literal, inference
and deduction skills with a range of online texts.
Our Literacy Booster course works equally well if schools wish to
choose which units their pupils need help with, and we can accommodate such
requests wherever possible.
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Literacy Booster | Small group | Y6 pupils at L3 | 14 x 60 min | £112 |
Magical Maths
Magical Maths is a series of two courses that challenge and develop your
Y3 and Y4 pupils who are gifted and talented
in mathematics.
Schools can choose to do
either or both courses.
Carefully designed to
add breadth and enrichment to the learning
taking place in the classroom, pupils will be
guided by a DLC teacher through a series
of themed lessons, each one designed to
stretch your pupils’ knowledge, skills and
understanding to the limits!
Can your pupils find out how Hip Hop
Harry’s fashion-sense changes with the
seasons?
How about trying out some amazing maths magic tricks on the rest
of the class?
Will they be able to visualise our eye-boggling shape puzzles?
And will they develop amazing algebra ability by the end of the course?
With
tangrams, a Grand Prix and a Haunted House for pupils to grapple with, even a
mathematical genius would be scratching their head!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Magical Maths | Small group | Y3 and Y4 | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Marvellous Maths
Marvellous Maths is a series of three
courses that challenge and develop your Y5
and Y6 pupils who are gifted and talented in
mathematics.
Schools can choose to do one,
two or all three courses.
Our DLC teachers will guide you through
a series of lessons that add breadth and
enrichment to the learning taking place in the
classroom.
They will collaborate, discuss and
share ideas with each other using the tools
available in our virtual classroom.
A wide range of mathematical ability and reasoning will be developed.
Pupils will crack conundrums and codes, find hidden treasure, solving problems,
puzzles and pentominoes on the way.
They will become magicians if they can
unravel the mathematics behind the tricks, historians if they can tackle the
puzzles faced by famous mathematicians, and experts in optical illusions as long
as their eyes don’t end up in a twist.
Even the odd skull or two will be popping
up in unexpected places!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Marvellous Maths | Small group | Y5 and Y6 | 6 x 60 min | £48 |
Maths Fun
Aimed at children working at curriculum
level 2 to help move them to level 3, our new
Maths Fun course will turn your pupils into
maths marvels.
With support and guidance
from a DLC teacher, pupils explore 2D and 3D
shapes, measurements and reading scales, time
including reading analogue and digital clocks,
and handling data in a range of forms including
tally charts, pictograms, bar charts and Venn
diagrams.
As if this isn’t enough, the group
will enjoy working and learning alongside each
other in our exciting virtual classroom.
Maths has never been so much fun!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Maths Fun | Small group | Pupils at L2 moving towards L3, EAL pupils | 12 x 45 min | £120 |
Number Fun
Aimed at children working at curriculum
level 2 to help move them to level 3, our
new Number Fun course will support and
encourage your group of pupils, allowing them
to become more confident in using all four
number operations and develop their own
strategies for solving simple number problems.
A DLC teacher will ensure that pupils enjoy
using the virtual classroom to consolidate
their counting skills, addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division facts as well as their
calculating ability.
By the end of the course the group will be number addicts!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Number Fun | Small group | Pupils at L2 moving towards L3, EAL pupils | 12 x 45 min | £120 |
Numeracy Boosters for Y6
Our Numeracy Booster course brings together a group of Y6 pupils
working at L3 to give them a boost in preparation for their KS2 SATs.
Our
DLC teachers carefully support, encourage and motivate pupils with each
lesson focussing on a different area of the
mathematics curriculum.
We cover all
those areas that pupils may struggle to get
to grips with: place value, problem solving,
fractions, decimals, handling data, measures
and many more areas are addressed, and our
virtual classroom ensures that all pupils are
fully engaged and able to contribute from
start to finish.
The DLC teacher will also
provide a range of follow-up activities to help
consolidate the pupils’ learning, including SATs
practice tests on our special website.
Our Numeracy Booster course works equally well if schools wish to
choose particular areas to focus on rather than the full course, and we can
accommodate such requests wherever possible.
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Numeracy Booster | Small group | Y6 pupils at L3 moving towards L4 | 20 x 60 min | £160 |
Reading Fun
With Reading Fun our DLC teachers carefully support your pupils
working at level 2 to help move them onto level 3.
There’s a strong emphasis
on building self-confidence in reading and helping them improve their
understanding of what they read, which also makes the course ideal for children
with English as an additional language.
The first half of Reading Fun will
concentrate on the skills and strategies needed for reading with understanding,
making sure these are firmly in place.
The teacher will then provide lots of
exciting opportunities to apply these skills to a range of fiction and non-fiction
texts. Reading has never seemed such fun!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Reading Fun | Small group | Pupils moving from L2 to L3 and EAL | 12 x 45 min | £120 |
Rising Stars
Rising Stars brings together a group of Y6
pupils already working at L4 in mathematics to
give them a boost up to L5 in preparation for
end of key stage assessment.
Using a similar
approach to our Numeracy Boosters course,
a DLC teacher will support, encourage and
motivate the group using all the tools in our
virtual classrooms.
Each lesson focuses on a specific aspect
of the mathematics curriculum.
A whole range
of areas are covered, and we tackle those
tricky aspects such as negative numbers, algebra, fractions and ratios, data
handling and decimals.
Follow-up quizzes and resources ensure pupils can consolidate what has
been covered after the lesson.
By the time the group reach the end of the
course they really will be aiming for the stars!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Rising Stars | Small group | Y6 pupils at L4 moving towards L5 | 14 x 45 min | £112 |
Sex and Relationships Education
Our primary Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) programme,
written by teachers with particular expertise in Personal Social and Health
Education, is made up of two elements: a series of six pre-recorded lessons for
each year group, and a range of follow-up activities including websites, quizzes,
worksheets and certificates.
The programme firmly covers the objectives from the 2000 DfES Sex and
Relationships Education guidance,
and as well as delivering important
information for young children
on their changing bodies during
puberty, we also emphasize the
important role of marriage and
family life.
Animated characters are
used throughout the lessons,
providing a non-threatening
context that will allow pupils
to deal with the sensitive issues
addressed.
Detailed teacher
notes guide the classroom teacher
through the content of each lesson,
and provide ideas for follow-up work.
By embedding the Y5 and Y6 lessons into
your school’s PSHE curriculum, pupils will receive
a gentle yet thorough coverage of all the key areas of SRE in primary schools.
The establishing of ground rules, how male and female bodies change during
puberty, families, emotional and sexual relationships, and the role of peer and
media pressures are all carefully considered.
Course type: Whole Class
Target audience: Y5 and Y6
Number of Lessons: 6 x Y5 and 6 x Y6 plus additional resources
Cost for Annual Site Licence
| Number on Roll in School | Cost |
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| Less than 50 | £25 |
| 50-99 | £50 |
| 100-199 | £100 |
| 200-399 | £200 |
| 400-699 | £350 |
| 700 + | Contact Us |
Writing Fun
With Writing Fun our DLC teachers carefully support your pupils working
at level 2 to help move them onto level 3.
By concentrating on building selfconfidence
in writing and helping pupils to not only improve their technical
writing skills but also their ability to plan and complete a short piece of written
work, Writing Fun is also ideal for children with English as an additional
language.
The whole range of writing skills are covered, from sentence
construction and punctuation, via note taking and research, to finally planning,
completing and reviewing a piece of writing.
Your pupils will be writing for fun in no time!
Course Summary
| Title | Type | Target Audience | Lesson | Cost/Pupil |
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| Writing Fun | Small group | Pupils moving from L2 to L3 and EAL | 12 x 45 min | £120 |
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