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Curriculum Centres News
Spring 2015
This leaflet gives details of new products and services on offer from Hampshire’s four Curriculum
Centres:www.hants.gov.uk/curriculum-resources-centres.
County Religious Education Centre
Are you looking to enrich your school’s RE, collective worship and spiritual, moral, social and cultural
(SMSC) development? Look no further because we can help! Utilise our substantial range of teaching
materials, artefacts and topic boxes to enhance your RE. Each topic box is accompanied with
planning advice to ensure you make the most of these indispensable resources.
Available to purchase are a wide range of teaching packs written to support and develop RE taught
according to the locally agreed syllabus. For county schools in Hampshire, Southampton and
Portsmouth, this is Living Difference Revised.Our 2015 publications catalogue and artefact box
catalogue are available to view:www.hants.gov.uk/county-re-centre.
Brand new products
Hot off the press: new teaching packs for Water
Water for KS1 teaching pack:
 concept precious
 contextualised within Christianity
(baptism), Hinduism (River
Ganges) and Islam (Muhammad
and the stream).
Water for KS2 teaching pack:
 perfect for Years 3 and 4
 concept ritual
 contextualised within Christianity (adult baptism),
Islam (wudu) and Sikhism (baby blessing).
Water for KS2 teaching pack:
 perfect for Years 5 and 6
 concept symbol
 contextualised by stories of Manu and the fish,
Noah, Goddess Ganga and Jesus’ baptism.
These booklet/CD teaching packs
contain:
 intended learning outcomes
 complete cycle of learning,
based on the methodologyof Living
Difference Revised
 background information for
teachers
 discussion prompt questions
 text and images (provided on the
CD for use in the classroom)
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writing frames and a range of other
activities to consolidate learning
recommended resources to borrow
useful websites, including
classroom clips.
Price: £12 each for subscribing
schools
To order: visit
tinyurl.com/re-online-form
www.hants.gov.uk
Mathematics Advisory Centre
LATEST - two new items available for immediate order and delivery – ideal for the new
National Curriculum. Our new online catalogue is also now available.
www.hants.gov.uk/maths-advisory-centre
A new Cuisenaire/Dienes number line
A structured number line for use with resources such as
Dienes and Cuisenaire. Demarcated into blue/white blocks of
ten. Also numbered 1-100 where the units are 1cm. Ten blocks
correspond to the tens stick of Dienes and the orange stick of
Cuisenaire. A strong visual image – used alongside structured
resources helps to develop conceptual understanding of place
value, addition and subtraction of tens and units and grouping
for multiplication and division. It lays the foundations for more
formal recording. 85mm x 1.03mtrs long.
NL045 each£3.20
NL04 pack of 5£15.20
A5 x 12 Multiplication grid
These x12 grids are suitable for individual children, group or whole
class teaching (class pack 35)
Side A: Multiplication square up to 12 x 12
Side B: Blank multiplication square
A5003
per pack
£9.95
Take a look in our catalogue at our selection of place value items
Place value
Place value cards are a significant resource to be used alongside
structured resources/bead strings/number lines and concrete objects to
develop children’s understanding of place value. All our place value cards
are laminated. Pupil, teacher and decimal place value cards available in our
catalogue. PV001 per set £7.65 / PV002 class pack (7 sets) £48.00. Place
Value Dice @ £4.25 per pack of 8.
For more information about Maths Advisory Centre resources or services contact us on:
Email: [email protected].
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History Curriculum Centre
Key Stage 1
We now have a new Key Stage 1 enquiry pack and artefact collection both
entitled Queens: Lives and Times.These compare the reigns of Elizabeth I,
Victoria and Elizabeth II and life at the time they lived and reigned to help
schools fulfil the requirement to study aspects of life in the past via studies of
famous and significant individuals.
For the summer term we will have a new within living memory artefact collection
on Leisure and holidays. Some of the contents are
pictured here.
Key Stage 2
Our Six Step Enquiry A beacon of light in the dark ages: The early Islamic
civilization has just been released and is now available for purchase.
Mayan resources:As well as our recent Getting to Grips
with the Maya CD, we are now loaning a new mixed
resources collection to support studies of the Mayan
civilization. This includes artefacts, books
and a few paper resources. The objects
pictured here are from the collection.
For more information on any History Curriculum Centre resources or services contact us on:
Email: [email protected].
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RADE Centre
The Rights and Diversity Education Centre (RADE) provides
resource enrichment and curriculum advice across the SMSC
and Rights of the Child agendas. RADE offers:
 training and advice on good practice
 curriculum planning tailored to the needs of your school
 an extensive collection of contemporary resources
 free loans and delivery to subscribing schools
 advice about local and national contacts
 a telephone reference point for curriculum and resource
advice.
Website: www.hants.gov.uk/the-rade-centre
Tel:
023 8061 3304
Email:
[email protected]
Payment process under the Integrated Business Centre (IBC)
Once you have completed the relevant online order form(see below) for your resources, your finance officer
will need to complete an IBC internal customer request to initiate payment. There are instructions on the IBC
portal; however, if assistance is required, the curriculum centre staff are happy to talk through this new
process.
Order forms:
County RE Centre
tinyurl.com/re-online-form
Mathematics Advisory Centre tinyurl.com/maths-online-form
History Curriculum Centre
tinyurl.com/history-online-form
RADE Centre
tinyurl.com/rade-centre-online-form
Centre telephone numbers:
County RE Centre
01962 863134
Mathematics Advisory Centre
01962 843893
History Curriculum Centre
01962 874802
RADE Centre
023 8061 3304
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