Are you aged 16-21, and interested in the media and young people’s issues around the world? 

You could sit on the One World Youth Jury and choose the media that changes people’s minds.
The One World Media Awards is a leading awards event in the UK. It’s open to films, radio programmes, newspaper articles and websites, and it’s there to recognise the best media coverage of the developing world. The Awards are presented in a televised ceremony each year by Jon Snow of Channel 4 News.

Did you know that you can loan a laptop, a projector, evaluate a Wii, capture images on a HD video camera or perhaps try out new more accessible keyboards?

A project exists within Digital Challenge which offers short term FREE loan of a wide range of technologies. These are offered to the voluntary and community development community within the Sunderland area or any similar group from out of the area who are delivering their work anywhere within Sunderland city borders.
Other than standard laptops and projectors there is also some very unusual kit. E-voting, Nintendo Wii's and video/camera equipment to name just a few, not to mention PC accessibility equipment and knowledge available.
The aim of the project is to provide short term kit which groups/projects would otherwise not have access to in an effort to extend their use of ICT and increase their capacity. Something ICT can easily achieve.

Further information can be downloaded here.

We remain committed to giving you and your students the very best experience of teaching and learning we can. Please download the CLC update to see how Sunderland CLC's can support you.

Travelling Tales is part of a new undertaking by the CLCs to facilitate outreach activities
for schools. This one is aimed at G&T Y5 students or Y6 Teachers who want to run
early revision for narrative writing. Its also a nice activity to do in the run up to Christmas.

What's the plan?

Starting at 9:30 on the 11th of December each class who are taking part will start to write a story with the title ‘The Night Before Christmas' Beforehand they will have been given a genre and an email with a writing frame.
As a group they will compose the opening paragraph describing a setting. At 10:00 they will mail their
opening to another school and receive a mail from another school with their story opening. Having read
the other school's introduction they will add the next part: introducing a character that matches the genre
and opening of the story they have received and mail it on.

St Robert of Newminster School invited Holocaust survivor Joanna Milan to the school to speak about her experiences with the year 9 students. Inspired by the stimulating discussion students then headed to the CLC to create comic strips using Comic Life software.

Pupils and staff from Southmoor school have been into the studio at the CLC to record there own version of Walking On Sunshine to raise money for Children In Need. 

They wanted to do something that fitted in with the Children In Need theme of 'do something different' so they got together a group of people who haven't  sang together, or in some cases ever, before to record a charity single. Emily Hope, one of the students commented "We have all had so much fun and hope to raise lots of money".

The song, which is part of a whole school fundraising effort, can be bought from the school. You can listen to a brief snippet here. You can tell from the recording that they were smiling throughout.

Both Sunderland City Learning Centres offer free training to schools in Sunderland. 
Training is delivered on a range of subjects from podcasting to photoshop and computer control.
To find out more about what we can offer you can view the training calendar and download information about individual courses here.  Alternatively you can download the training calendars here Autumn Term, Spring Term and Summer Term. If you wish to book onto a CPD course contact the relevant CLC here.

Redby School hosts Fundraising Masterclass at the CLC @ St Roberts.

The headteacher at Redby Primary School recently hosted a Fundraising Masterclass in conjunction with PTP Consultancy.