Are you ready for Bradford Schools Online?

Education Bradford’s Bradford Schools Online website is expected to go live during September and will be the new one-stop-shop for all Bradford schools.

This is an exciting development which will streamline resources and make information gathering easier for schools. The new site has many attractive features and offers schools a range of new possibilities online.

It will also mean that School News ceases to be published during September and Bradfordschools.net – the schools e-portal – will become more of a learning website than a learning and information site as it is at the moment.

The Bradford Schools Online site will become Education Bradford’s primary tool for communicating with schools and will offer a single source for relevant information and guidance. The site has been designed and the content is being written with school staff and governors in mind and will, therefore, have a more focussed feel. This can be seen in features such as the ability to customise your own front page to suit you

EB Seasonal Greetings Card competition 2008

This year’s competition is open to all schools in the Bradford district. Pupils are asked to represent the theme of Winter Light in photography, drawing, painting or collage, suitable for publishing as a seasonal greetings card. The judges will be looking for imaginative and eye-catching designs. A winner and runner-up will be chosen from each Key Stage group and invited to the Winter Art Exhibition open evening at Future House on Tuesday 9 December 2008 where their work will be on display at a presentation ceremony. The overall winner will have their design made into the official Education Bradford greetings card which will be distributed all over the district.

All entries must be presented on A4 size only and the pupil’s name, Key Stage, school and staff contact must be clearly printed on the back. The closing date for all entries is Monday 20 October 2008 and schools will be informed of the winners on Monday 24 November 2008 .

Entries should be sent to Tony Bullock, Visual Arts Coordinator, Music and Arts Service, Education Bradford at Future House. Enquiries should be directed to Tony Bullock on 01274 385551 or via email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

We look forward to receiving your entries.

Term Times - Summer Issue 5

Each term Education Bradford produces Term Times, a newspaper for schools, pupils and parents in the Bradford district. Term Times features stories on schools, parents, teachers and support from Education Bradford and Bradford Council. Please click on the link below to download the latest issue.

Term Times 5

Education Bradfords Learning Network and Scran, a charitable online learning resource base with over 360,000 images and Multimedia files from museums, galleries, archives and the media, have teamed up to provide FREE educational media files to schools who use the Bradford Learning Network and all those in Future House and CLCs

The offer includes FREE large copyright cleared resources, full captions, learning packs, tools to create, edit, store, share; and Scribble for blogging and communities

To use it simply go here

Select your school or establishment and click go!

Use the search engine to find appropriate image!

Use the right mouse button to Copy and paste or save to your computer

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The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) can prosecute educational establishments that use improperly licensed software.

The pressure group, which lobbies on behalf of the proprietary software industry, can take headteachers, schools and local education authorities to court if they are found to have any unauthorised software.

The government has given them the tools to support this initiative with the Copyright and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Act 2002, which increased the penalties for certain copyright offences from two years to 10 years and strengthened search warrant provisions.

 For more advice download our guide here

Get your kids to take this online vocabulary quiz, and each time they get a correct answer, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN’s World Food Program. And the reward for the kids? An even harder word to solve!