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WIN a 12 month subscription to Storytime magazine!

Posted on June 29, 2015 By

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Storytime magazine publishers have generously agreed to provide a lucky winner with a 12 month subscription for their school!

Storytime is a vibrant, colourful and exciting magazine, encouraging children to fall in love with books. Each edition includes lots of short stories, puzzles and games.

Read more about the magazine…

 

 

Competition:

** This competition has now closed **

What is your favourite children’s story and why?

To enter this competition, please leave a reply below with your answer. That’s it!

 

Terms and conditions:

  • The closing date for all entrants is 7th August 2015.
  • We will notify the winner by email after the closing date, who will receive a 12 month subscription to Storytime magazine for his/her school.
  • The competition is open to UK residents only and the winner will need to provide a UK school address.
  • The prize is offered as stated and is non-exchangeable or transferable. No cash alternatives will be provided.
  • Your email address is required for the competition and will not be shared with any third parties.
  • We reserve the right to pick an alternative winner if the original winner does not contact us within 14 working days of being told they have won.
  • The prize is only open to entrants aged 18 or over.
  • We reserve the right to cancel or suspend the prize at any point, without liability to the prize-giver or winner.
  • Our decision is final on all matters and we will not enter into any further correspondence.
  • By entering, you agree to be bound by these rules in relation to this competition.

Copies of The Teaching Assistant’s Pocketbook to win!

Posted on February 3, 2015 By

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Competition

Teachers’ Pocketbooks have generously provided TA Focus with 10 copies of The Teaching Assistant’s Pocketbook by Dot Constable.

This competition has now ended.

To win one of these books, all you have to do is ‘leave a reply’ at the bottom of the page with the reason you have become (or intend on becoming) a Teaching Assistant.

You don’t have to give your real name, but please give a valid email address.

Competition Terms & Conditions below.

 

About Teacher’s Pocketbooks

Teachers’ Pocketbooks, launched in 2003, areTeachers' Pocketbook Logo intended to aid classroom teachers and support staff with practical information, ideas and expertise on a number of topics.

Teaching Assistants Pocketbook

They are cute postcard-sized reads with the added bonus of cartoons!

The Teaching Assistant’s Pocketbook is one of 40 Teachers’ Pocketbooks available from Teachers’ Pocketbooks at £8.99 + p&p!

 

Competition Terms & Conditions

  • The closing date for all entrants is 1st March 2015.
  • We will notify ten winners, by email, after the closing date, who will receive one copy of the book each.
  • Our competition is open to UK residents only and winners will need to provide a UK address to send the prize.
  • The prize is offered as stated and is non-exchangeable or transferable. No cash alternatives will be provided.
  • Your email address is required for the competition and will not be shared with any third parties.
  • We reserve the right to pick an alternative winner if the original winner does not contact us within 14 working days of being told they have won.
  • The prize is only open to entrants aged 18 or over.
  • We reserve the right to cancel or suspend the prize at any point, without liability to the prize-giver or winner.
  • Our decision is final on all matters and we will not enter into any further correspondence.
  • By entering, you agree to be bound by these rules in relation to this competition.


Win a copy of The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Managing Behaviour (Jill Morgan)

Posted on May 31, 2014 By

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Teaching Assistant's Guide to Managing BehaviourAs a Teaching Assistant, behaviour management is more than likely a key part of your job description and is something we deal with in all aspects of our lives. How often do we change the way we communicate with people, based on their temperament?

Part of your work as a Teaching Assistant will involve positive interactions with pupils to encourage the best outcome in any situation. The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Managing Behaviour, written by Jill Morgan (available on Amazon.co.uk), is a helpful and engaging handbook for developing strategies and encouraging pupils to understand why their behaviour may be unacceptable and enabling them to take responsibility for their actions.

Competition

** THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED **

We have generously been provided with two copies of The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Managing Behaviour by Bloomsbury Publishing for two winners. All you have to do is ‘leave a reply’ below with an example of a behavioural problem you have faced and how you dealt with it. You don’t have to give your real name, but your answers will help other Teaching Assistants in similar situations.

 

Competition Terms & Conditions

  • The closing date for all entrants is 30th June 2014.
  • We will notify two winners after the closing date, who will receive one copy of the book each.
  • Our competition is open to UK residents only.
  • The prize is offered as stated and is non-exchangeable or transferable. No cash alternatives will be provided.
  • Once notified by us, the winners will need to provide a UK address to send the prize.
  • Your email address is required for the competition and will not be shared with any third parties.
  • The winners will be notified by email.
  • We reserve the right to pick an alternative winner if the original winner does not contact us within 14 working days of being told they have won.
  • The prize is only open to entrants aged 18 or over.
  • We reserve the right to cancel or suspend the prize at any point, without liability to the prize-giver or winner.
  • Our decision is final on all matters and we will not enter into any further correspondence.
  • By entering, you agree to be bound by these rules in relation to this competition.

 

About Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury’s academic division publishes around 1,100 books a year, with a significant presence in the humanities, social sciences and visual arts. For more information about their full range of digital services, textbooks, course books, journals, research monographs, reference works, and professional books in your subject area, please visit the official Bloomsbury website.

Read more about The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Managing Behaviour by Jill Morgan


Your TA Ofsted Experience – Win a Teaching Assistant Survival Kit!

Posted on May 2, 2014 By

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The Teaching Assistant Ofsted Experience

Very little is known about how Teaching Assistants, Learning Support Assistants and nursery nurses experience Ofsted inspections. We would like to give voice to your experiences – good and bad.

We’d like to use your experiences to put together a blog for TA Focus and the Guardian’s Teacher Network blog.

This is your opportunity to share your personal experiences with other professionals. Feel free to tell us whatever is meaningful for you, but as a guide, you might like to consider:

  • How the visit made you feel (e.g. your emotional responses)
  • What it felt like to be observed by an Inspector
  • What kind of interaction you had with Inspectors, if any
  • Any significant changes to practice that you feel might have been done for the benefit of Inspectors
  • Any observations you have of the Ofsted process and how it affected the staff and pupils in your school
  • What happened once the Inspectors had given their verdict.

This is an anonymous survey, so you can be as open and honest as you like. Your response is totally confidential. Any use of the data will not identify individuals or schools.

ofsted teaching assistant prizeBy completing the survey, you also have the option to enter our prize draw to win a Teaching Assistant survival kit, which includes the following:

  • Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants by Anthony Russell, Rob Webster and Peter Blanchford.
  • Mid year academic diary (July 2014 – August 2015)
  • Moleskine pocket notebook
  • Meditation Week by Week by David Fontana
  • Post-it notes
  • Pack of ball pens

To enter the prize draw, you must enter your email address at the end of the survey (if you don’t want to enter, simply leave this box blank).

** THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED **

 

Prize Draw Terms & Conditions

  • The closing date for all entrants is 30th June 2014.
  • We will randomly select and notify the winner after the closing date.
  • Our prize draw is only open to UK residents.
  • The prize is offered as stated and is non-exchangeable or transferable. No cash alternatives will be provided.
  • Once notified by us, the winner will need to provide a UK address to receive the prize.
  • Your email address is required for the prize draw and will not be shared with any third parties.
  • The winner will be notified by email.
  • We reserve the right to pick an alternative winner if the original winner does not contact us within 14 working days of being told they have won.
  • The prize is only open to entrants aged 18 or over.
  • We reserve the right to cancel or suspend the prize at any point, without liability to the prize-giver or winner.
  • Our decision is final on all matters and we will not enter into any further correspondence.
  • By entering, you agree to be bound by these rules in relation to these prize draws.