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Learning > 2Simple & The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
2Simple has teamed up with schools from The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust to improve learning through ICT and provide guidance and examples for schools through best practice. Literacy consultant Julie Steer has been leading the project, and the result is a wealth of planning, examples and resources for schools to share which support the National Strategies. 2Simple and Julie would like to thank the teachers and children who made an effort to produce some really wonderful work! Simply click on a school to see lesson plans and examples of children's work.

Beardall Primary & Nursery School, Nottingham

Year 4 used 2Connect to plan fantasy stories.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, Art & Design

Bentley School, Hants

Reception wrote their own adventures based on the sory We're Going on a Bear Hunt using 2Create A Story.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy

Djanogly School, Nottingham

Years 7 used 2Connect to investigate mysteries such as Jack the ripper.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, History

St John's School, Belper Derbyshire

Year 2 class went on a 'sound' walk around their school. They took digital photographs, discussed and recorded sounds that they heard.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, Science

St Marys CE Primary School, Stockport

Year 2 used 2Create and 2Connect to create a presentation of the children’s favourite fruit & vegetables.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, Science

Woodlawn School, Tyneside

Children study of Van Gogh and colour using Photo Simple

Curriculum areas covered: Art

Balsall Common Primary School, West Midlands

Year 1 used 2Create A Story and 2Connect to write fiction with a patterned structure.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, ICT, Science

Bispham Drive Junior School, Nottinghamshire

Year 4 used 2Create to write stories with a dilemma.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, PSHE

Colerne Primary School, Wiltshire

Years 1 & 2 used 2Create A Story to write structured verses based on There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, ICT, PSHE

Colne Community Primary School, Essex

Years 4 & 5 used 2Calculate for number work, investigating shape and working with probability.

Curriculum areas covered: Numeracy

Hartside Primary School, Durham

Reception used 2Publish from the Infant Video Toolkit to write about their experiences and work on phonetic spelling.

Curriculum areas covered: Communication, Language and Literacy, Mathematical Development, Drama.

Heath Primary School, Derbyshire

Years 2 used 2Connect to plan alternative traditional tales and then write them in 2Create.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy

Robin Hood Primary School, Birmingham

Years 4 used 2Connect for writing about the Tudors and planning stories.

Curriculum areas covered: Literacy, History