TheSchoolRun.com closure date
As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.
As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.
In particular, we suggest downloading:
- Learning packs
- All the worksheets from the 11+ programme, if you are following this with your child
- Complete Learning Journey programmes (the packs below include all 40 worksheets for each programme)
You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.
We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
What are interactive whiteboards?
What are interactive whiteboards?
Most schools now have interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in every classroom. Interactive whiteboards are the size of a usual class whiteboard, but are connected to a teacher's computer, which means that whatever the teacher is doing on the computer will appear on the interactive whiteboard.
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The teacher has an IWB pen which they use on the IWB, which is either put into 'pen mode' for writing and drawing, or 'cursor mode' for clicking on items on the screen, just as you would do on a computer.
Special software is provided for interactive whiteboards which offer a range of mathematical drawings and equipment, pictures and paint tools.
Benefits of IWBs are as follows:
- Teachers are able to create several 'pages' of a lesson in advance. This may include word problems with pictures, passages of text or bar charts etc. The alternative to this, would be that children would need to have everything on a sheet in front of them or a teacher would have to write or drawn things in advance on large sheets of paper. The IWB means that their desks can be clear and all eyes can face forward to look at stimulating and eye-catching images on the screen.
- Teachers can show children very explicitly how to carry out various mathematical tasks. With a large virtual protractor, for example, teachers can show children how to measure angles. Teachers can demonstrate how to group items for division, draw bar charts and symmetrical lines or show children the moving hands of a clock to demonstrate time intervals.
- Shared work that has been done on the board can be saved. For example: if a teacher may want to save the work done in a shared writing session for the children to look back at on a later date. In maths, they may have drawn up a bar chart from results collected by the class, which they want to look at and analyse later in the week.
