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Elementary Reports Competition Winners

Congratulations to all those that entered the Elementary Reports Competition. Out of 197 entries, 197 there where 197 correct answers! I'm sure the questions are too easy!

Anyway, I have picked 5 people from random that entered the competition who will each win a single user lifetime licence (worth £99.99). So without any more time wasting the winners are, in order out of the hat:

1) Vicky Richardson from Snettisham School
2) Martyn Fearn from Ripley Junior School
3) Mrs J Lucraft from Essex
4) Angela Silcocks from St Paul's CE School
5) Kathryn Reid from Ferryhill School

Congratulations to all who entered. Remember for only £99.99 you can purchase your own copy of Elementary Reports which works with any report style. For those lucky winners your details have been passed onto Anthony from Elementary Reports who will be contacting you within the next few days.

Look out for a new competition soon.

Teachers TV’s Commissioning team want to hear your programme suggestions.

Teachers' TV are looking to make one Primary programme for Teachers TV and want to hear from you.

"What would you like to see us make? All suggestions will be considered and the winning idea will be made into a 15 min programme. You may also get the chance to have the idea filmed at your school. We are particularly interested in hearing your ideas and suggestions about classroom focused topic based programmes.

You can also submit any other subject or role suggestions, if it's really good, it could be made too!

The winners will be rewarded for their efforts!

The deadline for all submissions is the 7th may 2008

The competition is open to all Associates of Teachers TV, which is Teachers TV’s online free community. To register as an Associate for free and submit your programme ideas, please go to www.teachers.tv/associates"

Elementary Reports - 5 Licenses to write your reports up for grabs!

Win a copy of Elementary Reports - see the competition at the end of this post!

Last year I couldn't recommend Report Builder enough for writing reports - this year I'm recommending Elementary Reports. Why the change? Because Report Builder has been rewritten, updated and renamed Elementary Reports.

It you already have a copy of Report Builder don't worry you are entitled to a free update - just contact Anthony on the Elementary Reports website. Here are a few reasons why you should update, or buy the software - You can view a full list of the advantages of Elementary Reports over Report Builder on the website.

To read more and enter the competition click below.

Teachers TV’s Staffroom Monologues competition 2008

Ashley Pharoah, the creator of the acclaimed BBC series Hustle, Life on Mars and the follow up series Ashes to Ashes, is to judge Teachers TV’s Staffroom Monologues competition. The annual national competition (here are the results of the 2007 competition), run in association with the National Union of Teachers, aims to find the best budding screen writer from the schools workforce. Entrants will be asked to submit a fictional monologue about life at school with the winning prize to have their script performed by top actors later in the year.

Pharoah will be part of a panel of judges who will choose the five winning entries from the competition. The top two monologues will be acted and filmed for programmes to be broadcast on the channel later in the year, while the other three will be recorded in audio format and made available for download from www.teachers.tv.

To enter, those that work in education (paid or voluntary) are asked to submit a single character fictional monologue of between 800 and 1,000 words by 25 March 2008 on any aspect of school life from the perspective of someone who works in a school. The 2008 competition opens on today. For help and inspiration, visit www.teachers.tv/monologues.

Staffroom Monologues 2008

Following the success of last year’s competition, Teachers TV, in partnership with the National Union of Teachers, is pleased to launch Staffroom Monologues 2008, a national competition to find the staffroom’s best dramatists.

School staff who are budding screen writers, or simply have an interesting story to tell, can win the chance of having their script performed by an actor for a special Teachers TV series Staffroom Monologues. Two of the winning scripts will be filmed and broadcast on the channel, while three others will be recorded in audio format which will be available for download from www.teachers.tv.

To enter, budding script writers that work in education (paid or voluntary) are asked to submit a single character fictional monologue of between 800 and 1,000 words by 25 March 2008 on any aspect of school life from the perspective of someone who works in a school.

The 2008 competition opens on Monday 18 February 2008. For help and inspiration, visit www.teachers.tv/monologues

Local History Competition

Here are details of a competition from Teachers TV for the budding local historians reading: Come up with an innovative class project involving local buildings and you could win complete funding for it (PLUS a digital camera) in our Hidden House History competition. There's even an opportunity for pupils to win a new laptop and digital camera with their own innovative ideas.

Co-sponsored by The History Channel and Ancestry.co.uk the competition ties in with a range of fascinating programmes that can help actively engage pupils with local history.

Two examples are available online to give you some ideas and a bit of inspiration, as are links to top-notch resources and a number of short video clips with great tips on investigating the history of your local architecture and landscape.

Go to the Hidden House History homepage now to start planning a local excursion that could wake up the future historians, archaeologists  and archivists in your classroom. And don't forget the 30 June deadline – be sure to start brainstorming before the competition is history!

Talking Dice Winner

Thanks to all of those that entered the Talking Dice competition.  Over 100 people entered with 86 giving the correct answer of 96 dice in a full classroom set.  There can only be one winner however....

So congratulations to:  Mrs. J Lucraft from Great Clacton Junior School.  Look for your dice in the mail within the week along with the e-book of ideas.  Hopefully she'll email back to let us know how she gets on using them in class.

Remember that you can order Talking Dice online from their website: http://www.talkingdice.co.uk/

Win a complete set of Talking Dice

I mentioned Talking Dice earlier in the week and now, thanks to Talking Dice Limited, you have the chance to win a full classroom set and teachers e-book, worth just over £100!  These are a superb addition to any teacher, primary or secondary to help teach languages! So what have you got to lose?  Here’s the details you need:

Question:
How many dice are there in the full classroom set of Talking Dice?

Prize:
Full classroom set of Talking dice and teacher e-book

Closing Date:
Wednesday 21st February 5pm GMT.  Winner will be picked at random from all entries and announced on this site sometime on Wednesday evening.

Entry Details:
Email the answer, your name and school name to competition@primary-teacher-uk.co.uk. Please make sure that the subject of the email is 'Talking Dice Competition'

All entries will be deleted at end of competition and you will in no way receive any junk mail through entry into this competition.

Earn yourself £50

The TES is offereing £50 for your brilliant classroom idea to print in the TES magazine classroom section to share with teachers all over the UK.  All you have to do is:

In about 150 words, explain your brilliant idea.

Don't forget to include: subject, age group, your name and school, home address for payment and send it to features@tes.co.uk

Fancy yourself as a scriptwriter?

Teachers’ TV, in partnership with the National Union of Teachers, is launching a national competition to find the best screen writers of the staffroom.

School staff who are budding screenwriters or simply have an interesting story to tell can win the chance of having their script performed by a well known actor for a special Teachers’ TV series Staffroom Monologues. As part of their prize, four winning writers will also have the chance to spend time developing their script with one of the UK’s top scriptwriters, Tony Marchant. The winning writer, as chosen by a select judging panel, will then be invited to see their monologue being filmed for broadcast by Teachers’ TV later in the year.

To enter, budding script writers that work in education (paid or voluntary) are asked to submit a single character fictional monologue of between 800 to 1,000 words by 26 February 2007 on any aspect of school life from the perspective of someone who works in a school. Full details and entry criteria are available from http://www.teachers.tv/monologues.