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This area provides guidance on how NGfL Cymru resources have been used to support a range of educational foci and approaches. For each, you will find guidance, information on how to use the resource to best effect, and outcomes for both teaching and learning.

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This was used as part of an agreed transition project for the whole LEA.
Pupils used mini whiteboards to give their estimates of the bearings displayed on the IWB. They then measured the angle with a protractor.
The intention of this unit was to build on the Frogs investigation available on NGfL Cymru, allowing pupils to extend their learning whilst following a familiar format.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
I initially used this resource as a starter to a study of the rise of the gangsters in 1920s America.
Main foci: DTaAfL
I used the 2 star activities with my Year 2 class. I found that the units were an ideal way of encouraging the children to apply their mathematical knowledge in solving problems.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
The educational goal of this project was to use a series of resources which would encourage KS3 and 4 pupils to develop their Speaking and Listening skills, whilst looking at contemporary 21st century issues, the pupils could engage with.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
As a class we had visited a school camp on the coast for a week and also during that time visited a wind farm. So the focus for our work this term within literacy, DT and geography was the environment.
This unit along with the other units in the series forms the spine of the school’s scheme of work for Welsh 2nd language. Each activity has been blended with resources already available in the school.
Main foci: Bilingualism
The resource was used as an extended starter and thinking skills activity before studying religious change during the reign of Edward VI.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used by a Year 5 class at the beginning of a topic about healthy living. The focus was to encourage the pupils to use the resource to discuss a healthy lifestyle.
Main foci: DTaAfL
As a starter activity to revise naming straight lines. The resource was very effective as it allowed me to quickly generate different straight lines and gave me the option of hiding the equation.
I used this activity with my Year 5 class which followed a previous lesson within this unit of work ‘The Earth’s materials – Are we wasting them?’ I found that the units were suitable for work we were developing in the class on the environment and our effects on the environment.
The resource was used by three classes in Year 5 as a revision and for some an introduction to the Welsh Alphabet. All children were second language pupils.
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
I found that careful selection of appropriate activities encouraged the children to focus and share their views and opinions as well as considering and empathising with the views of others.
Main foci: DTaAfL
I have used a selection of the thinking skill ideas outlined in the resource with my year 5/6 class.
Main foci: eSafety
The topic being studied in the school is ‘All About Me’. The resource was used to enhance the teaching and learning in Knowledge and Understanding of the World
This resource was used as it fitted into the school's maths scheme rather than science where it is on the site.
The Forces resource is really useful for teaching so many concepts pupils find difficult by using technology in an effective way.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
This resource used the 100m (to 2 decimal places) and Archery activities (Word problems – addition) as part of a short topic on the forthcoming London Olympics.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
An introduction to Year 2 children to different types of questioning leading up to ICT work on branching databases.
Main foci: DTaAfL
A resource used as part of the entry point for the International Primary Curriculum theme of ‘structures’ for a year 2 class.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This resource was used as the starter and plenary activity for a lesson on ‘The Standard Form’.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This resource was used as a starter lesson alongside the ‘Pa Glwb’ resource from the Cyfres Nici a Cris/Athrawon Bro service in North Wales.
Main foci: Bilingualism
As part of our Year 6 KS2 work in Geography, I wanted my pupils to use problem-solving and decision-making skills to address issues ‘in the news’ – in this case, the creation of wind farms to help future energy needs.
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
The activity was used as a revision activity before an end of unit test having studied the topic – Main Political and Social Challenges, USA 1910-1929.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This unit sets out to support pupils in year seven when they are setting their own success criteria when planning a scientific enquiry.
Main foci: Peer Assessment
This NGfL unit was used to help develop the pupils’ singing ability by using call and response.
Main foci: Inclusive
The use of interactive whiteboard activities, data loggers and blogs to investigate and report on how sound travels through materials.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
The resource was used for the starter, main activity and plenary of a lesson on dimensions, set in a classroom with an IWB
Main foci: Boys Attainment
This resource was used as a starter lesson to investigate how materials change, including reversible and irreversible changes.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The aim of this unit of work was to increase the pupil’s awareness/knowledge of the concepts of loudness and pitch.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This is an adaption of a resource already on the NGfL Cymru website that adds more thinking activities and extends the resource across the curriculum, making it a more thematic approach to the topic.
The resource was used as a revision exercise and thinking skills activity for pupils studying the topic of main political and social challenges at GCSE level.
Main foci: DTaAfL
An activity focusing on fact and opinion as part of a KS2 unit of work in English.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
A resource that was used to support the Welsh Second Language scheme of work to develop particular sentence patterns.
Main foci: Bilingualism
A resource that forms the basis for work on the topic of Newspapers for Y3/4 classes over a number of weeks.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
A resource that was used to introduce spreadsheets to Y4 pupils and to extend the skills of Y5 and Y6 pupils through the use of formulae.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
The resource was used by a Year 5 class as part of an introduction to Earth in Space.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This activity was used for pupils in KS4 to help them with storyboarding when planning a video resource.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
The resource was used as a main activity for pupils to investigate the relationship between enlargements and area.
Main foci: DTaAfL
In a lesson to demonstrate the different options available for the accommodation of small mammals.
The resource was used to introduce Circuits to a Year 4 class, organising them into thinking partners and later grouping them to use the circuit equipment.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This unit invited learners to consider their own ideas and understanding of the properties of Materials, using video, animations, images and questioning strategies.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This thinking skill resource asks pupils to start questioning stereotypes in Wales, discuss positive and negative features of their local area and develop thoughts for the future.
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
The resource was used as part of a topic on Friendships and Bullying.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used as part of a topic on our local area and ‘Geography in the News’.
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
The resource was used as an introductory activity into why Henry VIII made himself Head of the Church.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used as a thinking skills activity that took up a whole 50 minute lesson for pupils studying religious change and conflict during the 16th century.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used during a topic of food and shopping and the introduction about fruit and observational drawing fitted perfectly with this theme.
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
The unit was for a Year 8 class. The aim of the lesson “Alcohol Double Trouble?” was to be aware of the consequences and risks of alcohol use or misuse.
Using the Parri Popeth activties in Pentre Bach to develop pupils' numeracy and mathematical skills.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
This unit was used to help develop literacy skills through a maths/ICT lesson.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
Using this resource in a 1:1 situation with a year 5 pupil who had severe literacy delay.
Moving to a more thematic way of learning, we have been looking at ways of incorporating effective English activities into our topics; this unit is based on Celts and Romans.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
The resource was used as revision for Welsh 2nd Language for Upper KS2 children.
Main foci: Bilingualism
As part of a theme ‘homes’, this resource was used with groups of children to develop number recognition and understanding of number problems within 20.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
I used the Convection Currents animation to encourage year 10 pupils to talk about Physics in creative ways.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
This Music resource was used to allow the learners to work more independently and share ideas effectively, generating rich discussions about the features of the samples we were listening to and appraising.
This activity used a number of KS3 resources on the NGFL website to teach my year 7 pupils the elements of music.
Main foci: Peer Assessment
These activities played a significant factor in the development of pupils’ learning, thinking and numeracy skills when learning about carroll diagrams.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used as a starter to generate a discussion on ‘Averages’
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
The resource was used to investigate 2-D and 3-D shapes in the context of a Welsh castle
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
The Locus resource was used for the starter and the main activity of an introductorily lesson on loci for a low ability class in KS4. The lesson was set in a classroom with a computer and a projector.
Main foci: Boys Attainment
This resource was used as a main activity to demonstrate the rotations of different shapes and played a factor in the development of pupils’ learning, thinking and communication skills
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used as a starter activity for pupils to investigate 3-D shapes and the terminology of 3-D shapes
Main foci: DTaAfL
This resource was used as the starter activity in a lesson on ‘Number patterns’ and played a significant factor in the development of pupils’ learning, thinking and communication skills
Main foci: DTaAfL
This resource is generic enough in its content to be used with all age groups. The tutor can adapt their delivery according to their age of learner
The resource formed part of an introduction to Recycling using the discrete questions within the resource to establish the children’s level of knowledge.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used as an introduction to a local area investigation and what features should be used when making a short film about the locality.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was used as a tool for discussing and planning a series of lessons for packaging in D&T.
Main foci: DTaAfL
My teaching aim was to use a number of starters and plenary activities that would get students involved and interested in their work, especially using elements of competition between groups and pairs.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
This unit focused on a thematic approach to the curriculum and enabled me to introduce and/or enhance the varying skills now contained in the revised National Curriculum for Wales.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
My teaching aim was to use a number of starters and plenary activities that would get students involved and interested in their work, especially using elements of competition between groups and pairs.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
This unit was used as part of a partnership project with the International school we are linked to.
Main foci: Reflective practice
These resources were used to aid pupils in the analysis of two different historical interpretations on the actions of the Generals of the First World War.
The resources were used as part on an historical enquiry to encourage pupils to analyse historical sources and encourage them to carry out research.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resources were used to aid pupils in the analysis of two different historical interpretations on Owain Glyndŵr and whether he deserves to be seen as a Welsh hero or not.
These resources were used to aid pupils in the analysis of two different historical interpretations on the Penrhyn Strike and who was responsible for prolonging it.
The resources were used to give some background on changes to the role of women brought on by the war and encourage independent study.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This activity consists of an interactive PowerPoint similar to the famous Odd One Out, but much richer in its developing thinking potential - the idea being that the children can choose three images out of 16, so they have a choice and it is not the teacher who has chosen three images for them!
Our Yr 10 pupils used the bilingual interactive resource on Acids and Alkali from the NGfL Cymru website to revise about the strength of acids and alkali.
Main foci: Boys Attainment
NGfL Cymru thinking tools resources were used to support the work we did on blogging.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
Our Yr 7 pupils used the eChalk interactive games on elements, compounds and mixtures to learn about their properties.
Main foci: Boys Attainment
Our Yr 8 pupils used the NGfL Cymru information cards on Renewable Energy Resources to create flash cards (using MS Flashcards) to test their peers comprehension of the properties of different renewable energy resources.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
The Far Away Fruit Salad’ resource was used to introduce various Healthy Eating Challenges that the pupils completed over a number of weeks.
The activities were used to show pupils how to evaluate historical sources and to encourage independent study; skills vital in carrying out an historical enquiry.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This lesson about substance misuse was taught to a Year 10 class and follows on from the alcohol lesson the pupils received in Year 8.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This resource was used on the IWB to re-enforce some basic concepts about fractions for the whole group.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
Our Yr 8 pupils used the interactive resource on Food Webs from the NGfL Cymru website to revise about transfer of energy in living things.
This case study shows how close connections with RSC Wales and NGfL Cymru, who provide training sessions and resources has influenced CPD in a training organisation
This case study explains how the creation of resources for NGfL Cymru has involved a number of the construction team thereby developing teamwork, and increasing awareness to the teaching and learning opportunities offered by digital resource production and VLE delivery.
Research undertaken by NGfL-Cymru showed that there were a lack of teaching resources in the curriculum area of animal studies at level 3.
This case study shows how Tutor Tamsin Young worked in partnership with NGfL Cymru to produce the electronic resource ‘Equine Evolution’. Equine evolution was the area chosen as it is renowned for being a difficult subject, so by having fun interactive resources it could make the process a little less painful for students to remember specific dates and relevant information.
The unit was used to prepare a GCSE class for their controlled assessment written piece.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The unit was used with a KS3 class who were concentrating on how to improve their story writing skills.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
The activity was used to reinforce even numbers and allow the children to investigate number patterns.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
The unit was used with a Year 3 class when studying the Celts and Romans.
Main foci: Bilingualism
The resource was used as an introduction to The Age of the Princes in a Year 4 class.
Main foci: DTaAfL
I used this resource with my y6 class to explore our ‘Working with others’ theme, in particular to develop strategies for resolving conflict and issues when dealing with problems in another country.
Main foci: Reflective practice
The ‘Roman Artefact Cupboard’ area of the resource was used to introduce various Historical Challenges that the pupils completed over a number of days.
The resource was used as a tool for discussing and planning a series of lessons for History with a particular focus on the Victorians.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The unit was used to encourage reluctant readers (and writers) to read and respond to a crime story and then use that as inspiration and a scaffold to write their own story in the same genre.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
This resource was used as an introduction to work on the “Interdependence of living organisms” with a Y5/Y6 class.
Main foci: DTaAfL
An interactive session that sought to outline, explain and investigate existing knowledge of cyber safety, including internet privacy and cyber bullying.
Main foci: eSafety
Main foci: Principal Learning
Main foci: DTaAfL
Main foci: eSafety
Main foci: DTaAfL
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
The resource was used to introduce the children to story writing (using stimuli that would be familiar to them).
Main foci: Literacy Skills
Main foci: Reflective practice
The activity looks at four different types of sentence – statements, questions, exclamations and instructions - and the punctuation used with them. It also looks at the intonation used when saying each type of sentence.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
This resource was used to develop early story writing skills before moving on to further work looking at specific aspects of writing e.g. sentence openers, different vocabulary, connectives and punctuation.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
Main foci: Literacy Skills
Ogof Arthur was used by the class teacher as a themed approach to learning Welsh in the Foundation Phase.
Main foci: Bilingualism
The resource was used with a group of Year 4 pupils who were studying castles as a topic. The teacher used the resource to focus the class to develop a greater understanding of the skills needed to develop a line drawing of a castle that could be used to illustrate a fact file about a Castle that they had studied in class.
Main foci: Curriculum Cymreig
A series of pictures from a familiar story were used to create an engaging and interactive multimedia re-telling of the story.
Main foci: Inclusive
The resource was used with a class of 24 Year 6 pupils from a non-welsh speaking background, to complement the school scheme and the Unit of work based on the Gwyliau George television series.
Main foci: Bilingualism
This resource was used to support our theme on ‘Houses and Homes’. It was used with groups of children across the theme.
Used as an introduction and a revision activity before a practical session in a kitchen environment. Learners had access to computers in a theory lesson to identify potential hazards when handling and storing food.
Main foci: Work Based Learning
The learners worked on their own during the lesson in where they could call on tutor assistance if required. This allowed them as individuals to work at their own pace, and support could be provided to those learners who required a greater level of help.
The resource was used by a Year 6 class at the beginning of a topic about Forces.
Main foci: DTaAfL
This resource was used to engage the reluctant readers in my class and stimulate an interest in stories before attempting to write a collaborative story as a class.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
I used this resource to introduce “Shopping” to Year 8 with key vocabulary consisting of fruit & vegetables, quantities and prices.
Main foci: DTaAfL
As part of a theme ‘Our Green World’, this resource was used with groups of children to develop recognition of coins and understanding of simple money problems.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
I used these resources with a Year 7 class in order to introduce some Media concepts ready for GCSE but also to ensure that learners had experience of Work-Related contexts as well as plenty of opportunities to develop key skills of problem-solving, communication, working with others and literacy.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
I used this resource with my y4/5 class as part of our work on storytelling.
Main foci: Boys Attainment
I used this resource with my y4 class as part of our work on poetry.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
These resources were used by a mathematics set of Y5 pupils.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
The resource was used to complement the WJEC text book for Higher tier GCSE.
Main foci: Numeracy Skills
This lesson, for a year 4 class aimed to teach children about the harmful effects of Tobacco, Alcohol & Solvents both to themselves and to others.
Main foci: DTaAfL
These resources were used by a sixth form class in a special school as part of a unit of work on ESDGC.
Main foci: Inclusive
The Concro resource was used to develop strategies to improve the outcome of written and oral work completed under exam conditions, by helping pupils break written work into manageable chunks, with the aid of visual ‘places’ to aid recall.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
The resource was used as a tool for discussing and planning series of History lessons for focusing on The Victorians.
Main foci: DTaAfL
The resource was the second lesson in a series of lessons developing historical understanding and supporting literacy with a group of Year 6 pupils.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
The resource was used to develop a newspaper report with a historical focus.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
This activity was used to support the school’s phonics scheme with Year 2 pupils when looking at the long vowel sounds ‘a’ and ‘e’.
Main foci: Literacy Skills
 
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