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To: All Staff From: JGSubject: SAM Learning GO!Date: 11.10.09
The award winning elearning tool SAM Learning has undergone(long awaited) changes to its interface and functionality, duelargely to a recent change in management. Essentially it hasmerged its traditional learning environment 'SAM Learning'with 'SAM Learning PLUS'. This means that as from Septemberof this year, all schools subscribing to SAM Learning now get allthe benefits that SAM PLUS schools gained, and more...SAM Learning GO! is the start of a new era. Growing anddeveloping over the coming months, the service remainsfocused on encouraging the energy and enthusiasm of students, enabling them to learnonline throughout the year, not just in the weeks before exams.
'Teachers will be encouraged to become engaged as contributors to SAM Learning Go! By helping to form a worldwide community of exemplary classroom practice, we hope to become the biggest and best worldwide provider of online student-driven learning. Over the next two years we are committing£3,000,000.00 to a new product development and service improvements; wehave already redeveloped our software platform.' 
NEW Content:
(Sep 09)When it comes to subject content,
SAM Learning GO!
offers students and teachers anunrivalled range of coverage for Key Stage 3 and GCSE. Authored by experiencedsubject specialists and classroom practitioners, all activities and test practices are of thehighest standard.Committed to further improving accessibility to these resources, SAM Learning Go!features enhanced menu structures with exam board options, widening the range of question types beyond our tried-and-tested drag-and-drop question style.Moving from Java to Flash, our activities will offer greater opportunity for moreinteractivity, visual contexts and the use of sound and other media.Content is kept upto date in a continuous programme of maintenance and improvement.The SAM Learning GO! Feedback Service provides teachers with the opportunity to putforward their ideas and suggestions to the development process.SAM Learning GO! currently offers:•Over 50,000 topic questions, across over 30 KS3 and GCSE subjects.•Over 20,000 exam-style questions.•All revise activities converted from Java to Flash.The September release includes over
126 hours of new content for the GCSE 2009specification
,including:
GCSE
•Business Studies: 20 hours•Child Development:19 hours•English Literature: 9 hours
 
•French Improve: 11 hours•Geography: 4 hours•German: 4 hours•Health and Social Care: 9 hours•History: 9 hours•History Schools Project: 8 hours•PE: 9 hours•RE: 4 hours
KS3
•Geography: 8 hours•RE: 12 hours
 
Teachers can validate their professional judgement with our APP reporting.Included as part of the
SAM LearningGO!
subscription it really adds valuebecause it enables teachers to trackindividual students and producedetailed assessment reports at learnerand class level. Teachers are able to provide reliable evidenceof students’ levels and progress as and when it is required.•Dedicated KS3 activities designed specifically for APP provide a detailed evidencetrail of each student’s achievement level across the assessment focuses.•Intuitive reporting functions.•With full editing capabilities, the APP evidence provides an invaluablecontribution towards each student portfolio.
Programme Schedule For KS3 Maths and Science•
November 2009:Five introductory activities for each subject
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January 2010:Approximately 20 activities for each subject
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March 2010:Full coverage of Maths and Science
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June 2010:Additional versions of all activities delivered
Maths Skills Grid
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November 2009 – Our Maths Skills Grid
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underpins the DCSF Assessment Guidelinesand provides the structure for our KS3 Maths reporting. This means that skill levelreporting is available for each student identifying which skills within a criterion havebeen achieved.
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