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IPC Newsletter Autumn 2010
8th September 2010

Dear Colleague:

Welcome back for a new school year, which we hope will be full of great learning, great teaching and great fun. Let me take this opportunity to welcome Lypiatt Primary School in Wiltshire, England; the 1,000th school to join us in learning with the IPC. I’m also delighted to welcome our first schools in Thailand, Venezuela, Turkey and Scotland which have joined us very recently. And to the new schools that are learning with the IPC for the very first time this new school year; welcome all!

This newsletter is designed for you to read in just a few minutes and will bring you up to date on all the new benefits for you. So please click here to read the IPC Newsletter for September 2010!

Have a great start to the new academic year!

Best regards,

Steven Mark
IPC Director

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IPC Newsletter Summer 2010
24 June 2010

Dear Colleague:

With a number of significant new benefits for IPC members and several great events coming up, this newsletter is designed to bring you up-to-date quickly and concisely.

IPC UPDATES

• Route Planner
• Summer School 2010 (26-28 July, London, UK)
• World Cup Units
• Conference Cymru
• Units of Work updates
• Members' Lounge recruitment
• Next issue of Eye On The World
• Leadership Conference (14 - 15 October, Surrey, UK)

With many schools either finishing or already starting the holiday, all that remains from us is to say a huge thank you for all the feedback and helpful advice you've given us these past 12 months and to wish all of you a great and hopefully relaxing holiday.

If we don’t see you at Summer School, then hopefully we will see you early in the new academic year.

Have a fantastic holiday.

Best wishes,

Steven and all the IPC Team

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IPC Online Route Planner

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new and innovative online interactive Route Planning tool.

The new online IPC Route Planner will enable you to plan your IPC unit route map easily and quickly by producing an instant report listing learning goal coverage.Each report will highlight the learning goals that are covered and those that are missing for each Milepost, each year and each subject based on the IPC units you have selected.

The new Route Planner is a web-based tool using a simple four-stage process to create your own IPC Route Map:

• Stage 1 is starting a new route plan by entering data for the academic year.


• Stage 2 moves onto scheduling the academic year by selecting units using an intuitive drag and drop feature.


• Stage 3 then produces a comprehensive online report showing the learning goal coverage identifying learning goals covered and missing for all subject areas. The tool allows the user to export and print their reports in formatted report word document.


• Stage 4 allows the final online route plan to be released

The general feedback from visiting schools that have been testing out the new Route Planner is a distinct sense of relief when they realise how easy it is to use and yet, at the same time, takes much of the hard work out of IPC route planning for them.

The Route Planner is available to all IPC member schools from Thursday June 24th. A detailed support page with links to the Route Planner is available via the Members' Lounge page..

Note: Route Plans can only be scheduled and released by IPC Members' Lounge users with school administrator rights. Teachers can only access released Route Plans and learning goal coverage reports.

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IPC Summer School 2010

With places filling up fast, now is the time to book your place on the biggest IPC event of the year. Held in Greenwich, London, from July 26th to July 28th this promises to be three days of great learning, great teaching and great fun with IPC schools attending from all over the world. The networking and sharing of ideas and experiences is always tremendous. The learning opportunities are beneficial too. Courses on offer this year include:

• IPC and Early Years
• Beginning with the IPC
• Developing with the IPC
• IPC and Special Education Needs
• IPC and English as an Additional Language
• IPC Assessment for Learning
• IPC and International-Mindedness
• IPC Self-Review and Accreditation
• Advanced learning in IPC

To book your place or for any further details then please contact Laura Phillips, our events coordinator at a laura@greatlearning.com or click here.

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World Cup Units

With the World Cup in South Africa now well underway, we hope the new World Cup units of work are helping you and your children to get the most out of this global event. We’d love to hear from everyone who is celebrating the World Cup this year – so don’t forget to send us your photos and stories and we’d be delighted to include them on the IPC Website. If you haven’t already seen the units, you can download them here directly from the IPC website.

IPC Conference Cymru

259 Headteachers, teachers and Local Authority advisors got together in May for the first ever IPC conference in Wales. Schools from all over Wales attended; some schools closing the whole school to allow their entire staff to participate in IPC learning. Thanks to all the schools and to Newport Local Authority who helped to make this event such a great success.

Units of Work Update

We are well underway with updating many of the IPC Units of Work. Thanks to the delegates from the IPC Doha conference who gave some valuable initial feedback on the revised units. The first batch of updated units are now being edited and piloted in schools before being rolled out in the coming weeks. Exact dates will be announced shortly. Among the units to watch out for include the Milepost 3 ‘Sustainability’ unit which becomes ‘Climate Control’ and includes children conducting a United Nations-style Global Warming debate; the Milepost 2 ‘Food and Farming’ unit which becomes ‘What’s on the Menu?’ and involves children planning and opening their own restaurant culminating in a Food Critics award ceremony; and the Milepost 1 unit ‘Words in the Air’ which becomes ‘Media Magic’ and includes a fantastic red carpet Oscar-style ceremony as an Exit Point! Full details on all the updated units and roll-out programme will be sent in the coming weeks.

Members’ Lounge – recruitment

Don’t forget that you can upload any job vacancies at your school onto the IPC website absolutely free of charge. It’s the ideal platform for any recruitment needs and many IPC teachers are now using the website as their initial resource when job-hunting. Simply click here

Next issue of Eye On The World

Look out for the next issue of the IPC magazine Eye On The World which will be distributed to all schools early in July. You might even see your own school in print! Please share with everyone in the staffroom.

IPC Leadership Conference (14 - 15th October)

And finally, a date for your diary – The IPC Leadership Conference will take place this year at the International School of London in Surrey, England, on October 14th and 15th. School Leaders - hold those dates! More details to follow shortly.

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