2013
Corporate Brochure
Introduction Since its founding in 1999, EducationCity.com has remained faithful to its commitment to produce unparalleled educational experiences based on highly engaging content and exceptional quality. Dedicated to creating new ways of delivering curriculum content, recognised with awards and adored by children everywhere, EducationCity.com pioneers the evolution of teaching with technology in the new digital learning era. Today, EducationCity.com is trusted and used by over 15,500 schools including mainstream primary schools, secondary schools and special schools – even with children for whom English is a second language. EducationCity.com is the ‘future of curriculum content’ for teachers, parents and children across the globe.
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Organisation EducationCity.com is a leading developer and publisher of educational content with offices in Rutland, UK, Minneapolis, USA and Dallas, USA. We employ over 100 members of staff, comprising talented artists, programmers, producers, system designers, trainers and school support teams. We have a large network of specialist educational advisors spanning both continents. We also work globally with local territory partners, ministries of education and large groups of international English speaking schools. In 2012 we will generate over ÂŁ10 million in revenue, and continue to invest heavily in both our online services and delivery capabilities. This will include additional free product upgrades to maintain our market lead and ever greater capacity at our server farms housed in secure, enterprise level London and Dallas data centres, ensuring customers continue to enjoy faultless service provision. EducationCity.com is part of the Plato Learning group, a global leader in delivering award winning curriculum and online assessment resources.
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Accolades A British Educational Training Technology (BETT) award winner and double Education Resources Awards (ERA) finalist in 2013 alone, EducationCity.com is a multi-award winning resource. In 2012 EducationCity.com was awarded overall winner of the Practical Pre-School Awards. EducationCity.com is a member of the British Educational Suppliers Association, and the Council of British International Schools.
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curriculum content EducationCity.com produces the most innovative and engaging content for children. Exclusively delivered online, Head teachers and ICT coordinators are strategically choosing EducationCity.com as their schools’ digital teaching and learning content. By embedding within everyday teaching practice, we help a school create unique teaching opportunities and raise pupil attainment levels
Accessible, intuitively designed and easy to use, EducationCity.com is ideal for teachers with all levels of ICT expertise. Our award winning content is pedagogically excellent, and with over 2 million activities used every week, EducationCity.com is loved by teachers and loved by children.
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Innovation
engagement For the busy teacher, EducationCity.com is the must-have resource; harnessing interactivity, animation and humour to appeal to children between 3 and 12 years old. Its bright, colourful and animated activities bring learning to life to help children master the essentials in Maths, Literacy and Science and make their all-important first experience of French, Spanish and German a positive one.
EducationCity.com offers fantastic content to truly engage children both in the classroom and at home. Encompassing powerful teacher features to support lesson delivery, EducationCity.com can be accessed via the internet delivering learning ‘anytime, anywhere’.
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learning Copportunities Children love our engaging content and animated graphics, their excitement creates real classroom learning opportunities. Teachers typically use EducationCity.com for: • Whole class teaching • Personalised learning • Assessment for learning We directly map to the latest curricula in order to support lesson planning, with quick topic search facilities to save teacher time.
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Assessment learning
Our excellent tests module is used to assess the academic level that each child is working at. Providing real assessment for learning with each pupil directed to their very own revision pathway after each test attempt. The revision pathway is an automatic collation of the activities that cover the specific areas a child needs to improve on. EducationCity.com Tests can also be used for test preparation. Providing an opportunity for pupils to spend the valuable time, prior to the real test, practicing both the test format and the relevant curriculum topics. This really is personalised learning!
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Tools
Our whiteboard tools provide teachers with a set of open-ended teaching toolsset to the relevant academic level. Perfect for introducing new concepts on a whiteboard, they let the teacher, teach the children at a pace appropriate to their needs. Available across Maths, Literacy, Science and our modern foreign language (MFL) modules the topic tools can be incorporated into lessons to suit the teacher either as an introduction to an activity or simply on their own.
ThinkIts ThinkIts are a series of open-ended cross curricular activities that encourage independent critical thinking skills.
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Partners
EducationCity.com works with a series of trusted industry partners to deliver the best and most flexible ways of delivering a quality and relevant curriculum service globally.
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Success Tracker
Our revolutionary progress monitoring tool ensures that everything is automatically marked, and everything is automatically recorded. We actually record every question and every answer for each pupil! And we do that securely on our servers, so schools don’t have to look after the data and teachers can access it from any desktop, laptop or android tablet.
View performance reports with ease, tracking progress and attainment levels, with access to the information as needed. And in a teacher’s busy life, this all saves valuable time!
Play Live is an online mental arithmetic and spelling arena where pupils can challenge each other and compete in eal-time. The competitive nature of the Play Live arena ncourages pupils to practice and reinforce core skills whilst having huge amounts of fun.
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Training
CPD
EducationCity.com offers continuous professional development and personalised training options. They meet the specific needs of individual schools and local authorities and enable focus on a vast resource that teachers often don’t have enough time to properly explore.
School training sessions
Webinars
Ideal for new subscribers who have limited knowledge of the resource, as well as for schools requiring refresher courses on latest developments on the resource.
Our training team host focused online webinars once a month providing insight into the use of EducationCity.com in a particular curriculum area.
Online training
Free technical help
Our online training sessions enable schools to interact with an EducationCity.com customer service member to support their development needs.
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At EducationCity.com, our help lines are available from 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. in and out of term-time and we are always more than happy to help, no matter what the problem.
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Reporting features
We provide all schools with access to subscriber usage reports, which provide unrivalled, behind the scenes access to how the school is using EducationCity.com: • Which classes use EducationCity.com and how often • Useage by year group • Useage by subject These reports help schools pinpoint which classes need further support in embedding ICT into their classrooms, and which can be used as examples of best practice.
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EducationCity.com 8/9 Saddlers Court, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 7GH Tel: 0844 225 3060 Fax: 0844 225 3061 email: Sales@educationcity.com
EducationCity is registered as Community trade mark 005086715