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Reviews Literacy through Fire Safety Awareness This is more of a blended product than many in our software reviews. It contains many ICT elements but also a number of printed resources to help bring different sorts of learning into the mix... The 110-page booklet... contains extremely comprehensive and well-thought-through teacher’s notes and 20 different activities for pupils to complete with photocopiable handouts. Both the electronic activities on the disk and the reading and writing activities in the booklet are professionally presented, have their learning objectives well explained and come with teaching tips.” ICT for Education - Spring 2006 “...take a look at Literacy through Fire Safety Awareness* (£199 for a site* licence). A twenty minute drama featuring nine-year-old Marc Khan and his family who are woken one night by the sound of the smoke alarm. The drama carries key messages about what to do in the event of a domestic fire.” Times Education Supplement - TES Online January 2006 “Each of the written activities provides annotated versions of the text, enabling teachers to highlight the necessary language and presentation devices of journalistic, argument, report and formal documents. Delivered via an IWB, (Interactive Whiteboard) the teacher can cut and paste or annotate the documents as appropriate... ...From the pupil’s point of view, the resource offers a narrative context, which is fun and highly motivational, and engages both girls and boys through the theme of domestic fire prevention and safety issues.” Managing Schools Today - January 2006 Final Score It (Final Score) contains a wealth of reading, writing, speaking and listening activities that tie into the English National curriculum for key stages 3-4... ...My favourite part is “Smooth Edit”, a multimedia audio editing tool used to create a radio broadcast. Each student is required to edit a radio broadcast for the late night news. From a selection of sound bites and statements, students drag and drop audio clips on to a time-line and compile a radio report, over which they exercise editorial control.” Times Education Supplement (Jack Kenny) - January 2005 “It (Final Score) addresses a wide range of skills, and the various activities allow students to develop communication skills as well as an awareness of the use of standard English... ...Creative writing activities include structural devices to achieve effect; distinguishing between fact, opinion and bias; and organising work into sentences, paragraphs and whole text... The delivery focus, content range and assessment objectives grids indicate where the activities may be used and are an invaluable aid to planning.... ‘Final Score’ is a resource of exceptionally high quality and its presentation is extremely authentic, with imaginative scenarios and an engaging storyline.” Education Guardian CD-ROM of the week October 2004 “Final Score’s real strengths lie in the immersive activities on the CD-ROM, which can be used with the whole class via an interactive whiteboard or with individuals... ...it provides stimulus material in a combination of text, audio and video formats and enough content (rumours of drink/drugs problems, gambling, match fixing, blackmail, sexual harassment) to kick start the most recalcitrant Year 10 pupil.” EC&T Magazine (Claire Johnson) July 2004

Reviews

Literacy through Fire Safety Awareness

This is more of a blended product than many in our software reviews. It contains many ICT elements but also a number of printed resources to help bring different sorts of learning into the mix...

The 110-page booklet... contains extremely comprehensive and well-thought-through teacher’s notes and 20 different activities for pupils to complete with photocopiable handouts. Both the electronic activities on the disk and the reading and writing activities in the booklet are professionally presented, have their learning objectives well explained and come with teaching tips.”

ICT for Education - Spring 2006

“...take a look at Literacy through Fire Safety Awareness (£199 for a site licence). A twenty minute drama featuring nine-year-old Marc Khan and his family who are woken one night by the sound of the smoke alarm.
The drama carries key messages about what to do in the event of a domestic fire.”

Times Education Supplement - TES Online January 2006

“Each of the written activities provides annotated versions of the text, enabling teachers to highlight the necessary language and presentation devices of journalistic, argument, report and formal documents. Delivered via an IWB, (Interactive Whiteboard) the teacher can cut and paste or annotate the
documents as appropriate...

...From the pupil’s point of view, the resource offers a narrative context, which is fun and highly motivational, and engages both girls and boys through the theme of domestic fire prevention and safety issues.”

Managing Schools Today - January 2006

Final Score

It (Final Score) contains a wealth of reading, writing, speaking and listening activities that tie into the English National curriculum for key stages 3-4...

...My favourite part is “Smooth Edit”, a multimedia audio editing tool used to create a radio broadcast. Each student is required to edit a radio broadcast for the late night news. From a selection of sound bites and statements, students drag and drop audio clips on to a time-line and compile a radio report, over which they exercise editorial control.”

Times Education Supplement (Jack Kenny) - January 2005

“It (Final Score) addresses a wide range of skills, and the various activities allow students to develop communication skills as well as an awareness of the use of standard English...

...Creative writing activities include structural devices to achieve effect; distinguishing between fact, opinion and bias; and organising work into sentences, paragraphs and whole text...

The delivery focus, content range and assessment objectives grids indicate where the activities may be used and are an invaluable aid to planning....

‘Final Score’ is a resource of exceptionally high quality and its presentation is extremely authentic, with imaginative scenarios and an engaging storyline.”

Education Guardian CD-ROM of the week October 2004

“Final Score’s real strengths lie in the immersive activities on the CD-ROM, which can be used with the whole class via an interactive whiteboard or with individuals...

...it provides stimulus material in a combination of text, audio and video formats and enough content (rumours of drink/drugs problems, gambling, match fixing, blackmail, sexual harassment) to kick start the most recalcitrant Year 10 pupil.”

EC&T Magazine (Claire Johnson) July 2004