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  • SATs revision: Maths Boosters on BGfL - from haunted woods and running tracks to balloon-popping and submarines ...

    BGfL maths booster resources make revision easy!

    All of the boosters target the nastiest, nightmare maths topics - from multiplication, division, fractions, ratios - and make them easy, interactive and fun - in small easy steps.

    Why not try just one a day from now to the SATs?

    Go to School Booster and mouse over each area to see what's on offer!


  • The BGfL Spotlight is on James, Y11,Turves Green Boys School

    In an inexorable hunt for creative genius and maverick madness among Birmingham learners, BGfL has finally hunted down and interviewed James, creator of an incredibly successful educational website, LearnerBites.com. Read on ...



  • Schools get In The Zone!

    In the Zone science investigation kits are now in UK schools and colleges – open yours today!

    The Wellcome Trust posted free kits which include scientific equipment, teaching resources and experiments to UK schools and colleges in Spring 2012. Inspired by the London 2012 Games and mapped to the science and PE curricula, In the Zone kits...

  • Revision: Simple steps to reading bar charts

    This PowerPoint offers an colourful, stepwise introduction or revision for interpreting bar charts.

    • This user-friendly PowerPoint can be used by a teacher for whole class revsion or by learners for individual practice
    • Suitable for beginners or revisers
    • It takes the learners gently through all the steps needed to make sense of bar charts
    • Traffic Light system RED - AMBER - GREEN for reading graphs
    • 4...

    • Do you want to put the 'Spotlight on' someone? School nominations now open

      'Spotlight on ...' is a feature designed to highlight Birmingham students who have demonstrated unusually innovative, creative or entrepreneurial thinking to do something different.

      Do you know someone in your school who deserves to be nominated? It probably isn't someone who picks up all the prizes and it may be something they are doing with skills...

    • Learning with iPad - Tuesday 12th June 2012

      The Birmingham CLC Service is an Apple  Regional Training Centre (RTC) and is offering a one day course where participants will get to grips with understanding how teaching and learning can be enhanced using iPads. Participants will get to keep an iPad and a range of supporting accessories.

      For more details contact enquiries@clc.bham.org.uk or telephone 0121 382 1863.



    • TeachMeet Brum: 22 May 2012

      TeachMeet Brum is taking place on 22 May at Bearwood Primary School, B66 4HB, 4:30pm - 7:00pm.

      This event is being organised by Steve Philp (@frogphilp) and Jen Devaney (@mooshtang).


      What is TeachMeet?
      Learn something new, be amazed, amused and enthused.  This is an informal gathering of those curious about teaching and technology....

    • The BGfL 10 second survey

      We would like to know why you have visited bgfl.org today.....it's that simple!

      Why? Because we want to know what we are doing to be so popular, especially with Birmingham schools.

      In April alone, bgfl.org had at least 3,145,285 page views - not hits, page views! - and that included two weeks school holiday.

      We must be doing something right, so please tell...