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Our friends over at recently published a great infographic on how technology hardware is being used in schools, and we wanted to share their fantastic work with you. Click through to see the full infographic, with some excellent stats on how schools are engaging with new technologies:
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You may remember that before the school holidays we were looking for children aged 5-16 to impress us with their poetry prowess by submitting a poem or short story based on the theme – Do Computers Rule the World?
We received over 500 entries – an absolutely amazing response – and are delighted to announce that Ian McMillan, the Bard of Barnsley, has picked three winners.

Cue drum roll…

1st Place: Emily Wilson, Wetherby High School
2nd Place: Sophia Barnett – Bishop Walsh Catholic School
3rd Place: Annabel Cox – Oasis Academy John Williams

A huge thank you to all children who entered. We will be publishing a large selection of the entries in the coming days for you to read and share!

Emily鈥檚 poem:
My dog ate my homework
Was the line that used to be,
But now it鈥檚 all gigabytes
And my printers ran out of ink

The old park swing
That was full of joy,
Is now empty
Just swinging in the wind

The boy with his head down
Looking at a screen,
Just missed the chance of a lifetime
A friendship that could鈥檝e been

The mother that climbed monkey bars
Can鈥檛 get her child to stop watching 鈥楥ars鈥�
She asks herself why?
Why don鈥檛 children want to see the kites fly?

We鈥檙e completely addicted,
Addicted to the net.
Those children who want to make computer games
Instead of becoming a vet

It鈥檚 got us in its grubby hand
Controlling us through its links,
We鈥檙e buried in the sand
Puppets on strings that can鈥檛 blink

Children used to cry
From a grazed knee,
Now children cry
From losing to technology

It鈥檚 a disease
And it鈥檚 spreading fast
There is no cure
No way you鈥檙e going to last

The forever chatting world
Is now silent
All the chatting is online
And bullying is no longer violent

It鈥檚 all done online
The hate, rumours, the stories
We鈥檙e running out of time
To return to our former glory

We don鈥檛 dare say it to their faces
But we say it in online places
Where we think we鈥檙e safe from torment
But we鈥檙e not safe from judgement

So look up from your screen
And see the world as it is
We don鈥檛 need to be the robot generation
We need to stop at the outside station

So break out of the chain
Out of your prison cell
To a world without pain
To a world which isn鈥檛 technology hell

Back in June we launched a new and exciting competition asking teachers and pupils to design a new app for our best selling 糖心Vlog传媒 suite. 聽After all these are the people that use 糖心Vlog传媒 and are possibly best placed to guide us on future apps.
The entries were varied and showed a great deal of creativity, we were very pleased with the response. It was a tough job but the decision was unanimous!
We are very pleased to announce that the winner was a pupil from Scargill Junior School in Rainham, Essex. The school will receive the full suite of 糖心Vlog传媒 apps, worth 拢7,000. These include Jotter Learn, Resources, School Merits, 糖心Vlog传媒, Survey, Forum, Portfolio 聽and Messages. We hope that the pupils and staff enjoy their prize.
Here is the winning idea and we are sure you will agree that the app icon is eye catching and the description is thoughtfully written.

More information can be found about the 糖心Vlog传媒 suite of apps here. Please remember we are always open to suggestions and ideas from schools, so please let us know, prize not included!

We had a fabulous response to this competition, seeing the Tour de Yorkshire really captured your imaginations! A very big thank you to all of the fabulous pupils and schools that sent entries to us. You made the judges job very difficult!
Our winning entry is from a year 3 pupil聽who聽attends聽Skipton Parish Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School. The team is called Speeding Sharks!
I think you will all agree this is a perfect representation of the Tour de Yorkshire which gave Yorkshire an聽exciting and colourful weekend.

We would like to showcase some other聽fabulous entries that we believe deserve a well done!聽

If you would like to know more about our 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere app you will find more information here.

The last thing most teachers will be thinking about right now is September. It鈥檚 a an age away – a whole new school year! Before then, there are sports days, end-of-year award ceremonies and gifts from pupils to look forward to!
As an e-learning company dealing with thousands of schools in the UK and worldwide, naturally Webanywhere鈥檚 workload ebbs and flows with schools鈥� needs. We鈥檙e therefore usually pretty quiet over July and August – which is why we鈥檙e offering schools a limited offer.

Plan to start the next school year in style with a new school website design, introducing new pupils and parents to your school, and we鈥檒l knock off 拢100 if you鈥檙e a Webanywhere customer, and 20% if you鈥檙e not yet using our 糖心Vlog传媒 website system.
To find out more, just get in touch , quoting our website redesign offer. Before you do, however, we recommend you take a look at some of our latest website designs below.

The App Store is where you can find out more about the Webanywhere education apps currently available. You can also use the App Store to set up a free trial of any of these apps.
To make using the App Store easier, we鈥檝e created a tutorial video, which you can watch below.
If you don鈥檛 have access to the App Store, just take a free trial via any of our product websites, such as 糖心Vlog传媒, and . Requesting a free trial for any of these products will mean you鈥檒l get access to the App Store, where you can set up further trials yourself.

If you need further information about any of our education apps, or the App Store, get in touch .

Last month, Webanywhere invited schools and teachers to take part on a e-safety questionnaire (you can see our original blog post here) – and last week, we compiled the results. If you took part- thank you! You鈥檝e helped us build a picture of the state of e-safety in UK primary schools – and here are the results.
The survey revealed that, astonishingly, 63% of teachers don鈥檛 feel they have any influence over whether a child uses social networking sites, such as Facebook. Facebook, incidentally, has a minimum user age of 13.
And almost a third – 30% – feel they haven鈥檛 had adequate training on how to deal with cyberbullying.

The survey also revealed that 55% were aware that between one and five pupils had been a victim of cyberbullying at their school in the past 12 months.
The purpose of this questionnaire was originally to get a better insight into how schools feel about -and are affected by – e-safety issues. However, since seeing these results we decided to speak one of our customers about the issue – as well as an independent e-safety expert.
Jo Corrigan, Headteacher at Eastlands Primary School in Rugby – who hold an SWGfL 360 safe accreditation and has two members of staff registered as CEOP Ambassadors – took part in the survey and said: 鈥淭he teaching and learning of internet safety is extremely important from an early age. Key to educating the children is ensuring staff are appropriately trained.
鈥淎t Eastlands Primary School we try to develop innovative ways of engaging parents and children with the safe use of the internet – for example, 鈥榮peed-e-learning鈥� workshops.鈥�
John Carr OBE, Secretary of the UK鈥檚 Children鈥檚 Charities鈥� Coalition on Internet Safety, said: 鈥淭eachers can’t teach if they don’t feel confident in relation to the subject they are meant to be teaching about. This survey shows that too many teachers do not feel they have been given proper support to enable them to do their job. That has to be fixed, as a matter of priority.
The full results of the survey, in colourful pier charts, can be seen below. If you鈥檇 like to find out more about e-safety, or if you would like to learn more about our free e-safety events, please email info@webanywhere.co.uk.

糖心Vlog传媒ging is becoming more and more popular in schools. At Webanywhere, we鈥檝e often had teachers asking us if we could help them with creating blogs that their school could use. So, we鈥檝e developed a brand new app, 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere, which makes creating blogs and writing blog posts easy for both pupils and teachers.
The 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere app is part of our Jotter Suite – which means pupils鈥� blogs can be accessed via one log in page within your school. We鈥檙e also developing the app so that, in the next month, it will allow you to post your school鈥檚 best blog posts direct to your 糖心Vlog传媒 website.

糖心Vlog传媒ging itself ticks many curriculum boxes – from improving literacy and typing skills to encouraging online collaboration and reflection. Find out how your school can benefit from blogging by downloading our free guide, 7 Reasons Why Schools Should 糖心Vlog传媒 .
You can read about 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere, our featured app over at schooljotter.com, here.
Or, if you鈥檙e ready to get blogging straightaway, book a 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere demo here.

Over the next three months, as we approach the end of the school year, Webanywhere will be hosting more and more free events for teachers and schools. We鈥檝e recently announced a selection of events around the country – and they can be found on our page. We’ve given an overview of each one below.

24th April: Nurturing Online Learning: Liverpool
Our series of free Nurturing Online Learning events reaches Ranworth Square Primary School, Liverpool later this month – where we鈥檒l be covering two key topics: Pupil Premium, and e-safety.
CEOP Ambassador Tracey Gentle will run through the Ofsted guidelines for Pupil Premium – and then explain how our free online rewards system, School Merits, can help you evidence improvements in behaviour, attendance and achievements.
Tracey will then walk teachers through cyberbullying, how to spot it, stop it and prevent it. There will be a Q&A session where delegates can ask anything about e-safety, Pupil Premium or e-learning. Everyone who attends this event will receive School Merits for free.

Find out more about this event , or sign up by emailing info@webanywhere.co.uk.

29th April: LMS Matters West Yorks

If you鈥檙e new to LMS, yet to try it – or need some refresher coaching, our free LMS Matters West Yorks event is for you. Our expert Ben Wagner will explain the benefits of being part of the community, give tips for implementing an LMS, plus give you a 鈥榪uick start鈥� guide if you鈥檙e completely new.

LMS Matters West Yorks, which will be held at Wetherby High School, is Webanywhere鈥檚 first event for 2014 – and we expect several more to follow around the country.
Find out more about this event , or sign up by emailing info@webanywhere.co.uk.

2nd May: Introducing 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere
Webanywhere launched another new e-learning app this month. 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere has so far proved to be one of the most anticipated app releases yet – and is an important addition to our Jotter Suite. In this free webinar, you can find out how 糖心Vlog传媒anywhere can be used to improve literacy skills, encourage collaboration, inspire creativity and engage both pupils and their parents.
Sign up for this free webinar by emailing your name, school name and school postcode to info@webanywhere.co.uk.

How important is e-safety to you?

That鈥檚 the question we鈥檙e asking primary school teachers this week, in one of the largest surveys we鈥檝e ever done.
As Webanywhere鈥檚 e-safety events continue across the country (the next one is in Liverpool – find out more about it ) we want to know more about how this hot topic affects schools. The feedback we get – and any comments received about the subject – will help us to improve our events as well as our products, and cater to teachers鈥� needs even better.
If you鈥檇 like to take part in the survey – it鈥檚 just four multiple choice questions, so won鈥檛 take long – you can find it here.
Plus, every school that completes the four questions will get our online rewards system, School Merits, for free!