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Another Project goes live 🥳

Thanks to the wonderful team over at Downpatrick Autism Family Support Group for being a fabulous bunch to work with!

We hope you enjoy their lovely new site as much as we enjoyed building it.

🌟🌟 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙒𝙀𝘽𝙎𝙄𝙏𝙀 🌟🌟

We are SUPER excited to show you our brand new website funded by The National Lottery Community Fund Northern Ireland’s Dormant Funds grant 🥰

It’s bright, colourful & paints a true reflection of our wonderful group 💙💚💛🧡💜😁

We hope to add more interactive features soon.

Have a wee nosey 👀 ⬇️

https://www.downpatrickautismsupport.org

Special thanks to the guys over at Wholeschool for doing such a great job 👏🏼

👏 Friday Blog Post 👏

Today we take a look at the skills needed to fit into the modern workplace.

https://blog.whole.school/the-modern-workplace-do-we-have-the-skills/

Grab a cuppa and have a read ☕

With most pupils back in the classroom, it is only now that we can begin to evaluate the impact that lockdown has had on digital disparity in our school system.

Did Lockdown widen the digital divide?

https://blog.whole.school/did-lockdown-widen-the-digital-divide/

Did Lockdown widen the Digital Divide? In a previous Blog I talked about the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ in relation to the issue of school uniforms.Another potent issue has arisen too during the past 12 months: The Digital Divide and its impact on our learners.This is not a ‘binary’ problem, where all the ‘haves’ own (and ha...

🚨FRIDAY BLOG POST🚨

This week I had a chat with one of Wholeschool's EdTech Consultants, Fintan, to get his views on how lockdown learning has blurred the roles of Parent & Teacher.

https://blog.whole.school/one-year-on-a-look-back-on-the-relationship-between-parents-and-schools/

One year on: A look back on the relationship between Parents and Schools It has never been more important to have parents and carers involved in the education of young people. The invisible social contract between home and school always seemed to have a line between ‘home’ and ‘school’: current circumstances have blurred that line. To help me understand this chan...

👀NEW BLOG POST 👀

This week we look at the 'Assessment for Learning' model, and how we can use it to bridge the assessment gap.

https://blog.whole.school/formative-assessment-and-assessment-for-learning-too-close-to-be-different/

‘Formative Assessment’ and ‘Assessment for Learning’: Too close to be different? The title notwithstanding, assessment is an integral part of the learning process. Through ongoing assessment, teachers build a comprehensive picture of the progress and learning needs of each child in order to plan future work and ultimately improve learning. “Formative assessment is concerned wi...

💻 NEW BLOG POST 💻

We take a look at Pupil Assessment in the UK and how the changes to Education in 2020 will have a lasting impact on how we evaluate

“Real change takes place in deep crisis”

https://blog.whole.school/the-assessment-crisis/

The Assessment Crisis Things have changed but we still need to pursue the same teaching and learning attainment outcomes as before. With an estimated 1.6 billion learners out of school, creative strategies and tools are required, and new ‘hybrid’ remote learning methodologies adopted.With the apparent side-lining of ...

🖊 NEW POST 🖊

Grab yourself a cuppa and have a read of our latest blog post ☕️

Is -19 driving the latest revolution?

https://blog.whole.school/is-covid-19-driving-the-latest-tech-revolution-in-education/

Is Covid-19 driving the latest tech revolution in Education? Our experts think so. The disruption caused by Covid-19 was and is undoubtedly the biggest upheaval in our education system since the second world war.A report published by the United Nations notes that Covid-19 has affected nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries and across all conti...

📝New Blog Post: How has Covid-19 Impacted Pupil Assessment?

With many exams cancelled - we looked into how schools intend to assess pupil progress during a time of blended learning.

https://blog.whole.school/how-has-covid-19-impacted-pupil-assessment/

How has Covid-19 Impacted Pupil Assessment. The impact of Covid-19 on learning institutions around the world has been profound, to say the least. In a new paradigm, where schools are operating reduced hours, split timetabling, blended learning and remote first learning it has never been more important to monitor Pupil Progress in the fundamen...

Pupil Benchmark - The Evidence-based Pupil Tracking App. Read all about the newest addition to the Wholeschool Teacher Toolkit 👩‍🏫💼📊📈🔎


https://blog.whole.school/tracking-progress-with-pupil-benchmark/…

Although Wholeschool HQ is closed for now, its business as usual as our team all

Support Links:
For website updates: [email protected]

For eLearning advice and support: [email protected]

For general support or anything else: [email protected]

Or visit the Support Centre to open a ticket

Although Wholeschool HQ is closed for now, its business as usual as our team all

Support Links:

For website updates [email protected]

For eLearning advice and support [email protected]

For general support or anything else [email protected]

Or visit the Support Centre to open a ticket

Friday Blog Post!! Today's post is all about mobile Apps..
Does a school really need an App? Of course it does!!
Move with the times, Folks.

Attention All Schools - Don't worry, Be 'Appy With the seemingly endless growth in popularity of mobile apps, it would be remiss of me not to take a second and jot a few words about how schools can utilise apps to stay connected to their community.