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Dear colleague Global ILS from SiR I am delighted to announce that all Schools that are affiliated to the Specialist Schools Trust can take advantage of the Family of Schools offer whereby a secondary school and up to six primary feeder schools can purchase the Global ILS at a hugely reduced rate. |
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May I
bring to your attention a special offer to all affiliated schools of the
Specialist Schools Trust, offering an excellent opportunity for lead schools to
implement SiR’s British Open Integrated Learning Software for themselves and up
to 6 feeder primary schools at “hugely reduced rates”
SiR
Learning Systems are the leading developer and supplier of Open Integrated
Learning Systems in the UK with Numeracy, Literacy, MFL and Science multimedia
resources, currently in use in thousands of UK schools. Students from SEN,
Mainstream and Gifted and Talented continue to derive great stimulus and
educational benefit from using the SiR curriculum software.
Products
are all developed and presented in modular format to enable flexibility of use
in many different learning environments, having been written by British
teachers and mapped to various National Strategies.
The SiR
Global Numeracy provides 14 products covering KS1 right through to
‘A’ Level with hundreds of interactive multimedia modules.
Global
Maths (written by Birmingham LEA), Coco Maths, Zarc Maths, Complete Maths
Workshop and Advanced Maths Workshop. There is a wide variety of different
presentation styles to suit individual student needs. Schools also receive a
Maths Assessment product and graphing package developed with Nottingham
University Shell Centre. The Maths products have been mapped for you (by
British teachers) into the National Numeracy Strategy from Reception through to
Year 9.
SiR Global
Literacy solution is a suite of 14 highly interactive multimedia
products with the nationally renowned Global English (providing a phonics based
approach to accelerating reading and spelling) being supported by a series of
multicultural stories from around the world, KS3 Spelling Support, Macbeth, and
the multimedia (self marking) version of the NFER 6-12 years Reading Test.
The Global
Modern Foreign Languages products are very popular, providing highly engaging
and interactive support to beyond GCSE level. Schools will receive Global
French, German, Spanish and Italian covering Vocabulary, Verbs, Phrases,
Sentences and Scenarios with active role play.
Global
Science covering Heat, Matter, Electricity, Plants Around Us and
The Human Body will provide bright, vibrant engaging support for students at
KS1-KS2 and within learning support at KS3.
The
Discovery Management System again developed in conjunction with British
teachers; this system delivers and presents individual learning modules and
complete lesson plans to the learner, together with full assessment and
reporting of students submitted work on an individual or class basis.
You will have the ability to
customise groups, add and assign individualised learning content mapped to
National Curriculum learning targets.
Discovery bookmarks the progress
of students so they can easily return to a particular section of learning. It
also automatically marks the student’s submitted work and provides instant
feedback of results which reduces peer pressure and saves valuable teacher time
and increases non-contact time.
Reports are easily generated and
interpreted for viewing by students, teachers and management.
This system includes an import
facility for data exported from SIMS or similar.
Teachers and students can if they
wish create their very own multimedia resources, which mark automatically by
using the Courseware Author facility included within Discovery.
Students can access their lesson
plans via a workstation or remotely via a roaming laptop at home or standalone
using a program called ‘Discovery On Line’. This will send results back to the
school and receive new lesson plans via the Internet, or when reconnected to
the school cable or wireless network.
All this is included via a
student interface that offers a variety of themes selectable by the student.
On
site software installation and testing is undertaken by SiR technical
engineers, onto the lead school computer network and those of the feeder
primary schools.
On site
staff development training, which is comprehensive and enjoyable, is provided by
SiR. This includes 3 days for the lead school on their site and centralised
training for the 6 feeder schools. The training, to suit the schools needs,
will make the use of the software really effective enabling teachers to easily
integrate the learning content into everyday classroom practise.
We are delighted with the number of Specialist Schools and partner Primary schools who are taking up the SiR “Family of Schools” initiative and this confirms our beliefs that it fully supports the aims and objectives of the Specialist Schools program.
Providing your school and up to 6 of your feeders with an unlimited user software licence for the entire range of SiR’s managed learning resources, will enable you all to provide a truly differentiated and personalised learning environment, resulting in the raising of self esteem, levels of achievement and standards within your own “Family of Schools”. This will further strengthen your collaboration with these schools and the wider community.
The high
number of Specialist Schools taking up this initiative has enabled us to offer
you a deferred payment option if you wish, by spreading the £19,995.00 payment
over 3 school financial years, which will assist with your forward planning and
budgeting.
If you
would like a free of charge on site demonstration to your team and feeder
schools then call 01773 820011 now, or complete the “Fax back” form and fax
to 01773 820206.
Yours
sincerely
Graham
Ford
SiR Sales
and Marketing Manager