Dear colleagues
There has been much furore in the press this week with everyone trying to push the healthy eating message to schools - including celebrity chef Marco Pierre White.
Now Jamie Oliver is to launch his second manifesto about school food policy to the government and on Tuesday, Education Guardian will be getting an exclusive preview from Jamie on his plans.
We're putting some of Jamie's top resources onto the GTN to help develop home cooking skills in class. You can see them here.
New teaching resources on the network
This week we have had an amazing bank of fantastic resources uploaded by Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders).
They include lesson exercises, videos and transcripts - ideal for French A- Level students - on a wide variety of difficult subjects. For example this resource looks at how MSF set up an inflatable hospital in Haiti to help in the aftermath of the earthquake last year.
Or this one relates to how the organisation works to provide Afghani immigrants in Paris with shelter and support.
If you are looking for something a little less serious and fancy getting crafty then try making these spooky masks - this one is a jaguar (the big cat, not the car) but there's also a tarantula and a bat - in readiness for Halloween.
Resource highlights
Here are some of our favourite resources currently on the network:
Primary
Assessment for learning toolkit
Speaking in the first, second or third person
Creating a magical bus library
Secondary
DT and the James Dyson Foundation
Blog of the week
Former BBC Education and Home Affairs correspondent, Sue Littlemore, was blogging for us this week. If you didn't catch her report on how the ideas of teachers can help change the lives of disadvantaged pupils, then take a moment to read it here.
Don't forget if you would like to blog for us then please do get in contact by emailing emma.drury@guardian.co.uk who will be delighted to hear from you.
Looking to change jobs or to fill a role
If you are hunting for your next post or just curious about what's out there, take a look at our dedicated Schools Jobs website. There are more than 1200 roles up for grabs as I write this. Plus if you have a role to fill, it is FREE to advertise all your jobs - not just the teaching ones - with us at the moment.
Seminars coming up
GTN members get a 25 per cent discount on the Innovation in Education seminar, which is being held at The Guardian in London on 17 November 2011. Speakers include
• Abdul Chohan of the Essa Academy
• Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers
• Phil Redhead, director of ICT and innovation, GEMS Royal Dubai School.
I'll be there too facilitating one of the sessions.
Do come and join us - it would be great to meet some of you face to face. For more details see here and use the code TN25 to get your discount.
And finally…
We are on the look out for teachers to join us to help test the site so that we can make the user experience even better - if you are based in London (or fancy a city break) and can spare an hour next week then please click here to reply. You get a £15 Amazon voucher as a thank you.
Have a great week and for those of you on half-term have a fabulous holiday.
Very best wishes,
Wendy Berliner
Head of Education, Business and Professional
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