Friday 22 October 2010

NAPD Competition Winners



Congratulations to St Joseph's Secondary School in Rush, Co Dublin. They won our NAPD competition which sees them win a classroom of postura+ chairs.

Monday 20 September 2010

Macmillan Coffee Morning


Join us on Thursday 23rd September for our Macmillan Cancer Support Coffee Morning. We look forward to seeing you.

Friday 3 September 2010

Irish Teaching and Learning Festival



Visit us on Stand 37 at this year's Irish Teaching and Learning Festival at City West Hotel, Dublin 15-16th October. This is Ireland's first comprehensive and interactive event focused on education in Ireland today. The festival will showcase the best teaching tools on the market and host a comprehensive conference for education professionals.

http://www.itlfestival.ie/ for more details

Friday 30 July 2010

World Cup Competition Winners Announced

Congratulations to our World Cup Competition Winners.
1st St Patrick's PS, Crossmaglen (ActiVote Set).
2nd Priory Integrated College (Desk and Chair).
3rd Glencraig Integrated PS (Visualiser).

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Wednesday 5 May 2010

Thursday 1 April 2010

Easter Opening Hours

SOS GROUP will close for Easter at lunchtime on Thursday 1st April and re-open at 8.15am on Monday 12th April.

Monday 15 March 2010

Closed on St Patrick's Day

SOS GROUP will be closed on St Patrick's Day, Wednesday 17th March. We will re-open on Thursday 18th March.

Tuesday 9 March 2010

UK Film Festival Video Contest

Promethean announces the ActivClassroom Film Festival!

Do you use Promethean ActivBoard, Learner Response Systems or ActivInspire software? If so, show us how these products bring your classroom to life. Create and submit a video answering one of the following questions for a chance to win!

1) How does the ActivClassroom bring your class to life?

2) How does the ActivClassroom bring your subjects to life?



The winner of each category has their choice of either an ActivBoard+2 378 Pro fixed or a set of 32 ActivExpression devices! The winning videos will also be showcased on our corporate website.

Videos must be submitted by no later than 8 April* (deadline extended from 15 March), 2010. Hurry the first 10 video submissions will receive an ActivView document camera!

Friday 12 February 2010

Ashfield Boys School



Here is a perfect example of some of the new furniture we are offering home economics departments. These images were taken in Ashfield Boys School in Belfast.

Tuesday 2 February 2010

IPPN 2010 Prize Draw Winners Announced


After a successful 2010 IPPN, we had a record number of entries into our prize draw.

The winners are as follows

ACTIVvote (kit of 32 handheld devices) Mags Coffey, St Mark's, The Glen, Cork
ACTIVslate Denise Deery, Kilmovee NS, Co Mayo
ACTIVslate Jerry Coakley, Ballyheadans NS, Cork
2Tone Table and 4 chairs Michael Maher, St Thomas' JNS, Lucan, Co Dublin

Thursday 7 January 2010

Promethean Planet membership passes half million mark

Promethean Planet membership Passes the Half Million mark

Membership doubles in one year

Blackburn, UK, 7th January 2010 — Promethean, a world leader in the rapidly growing global market for interactive learning technology, today announces that membership of Promethean Planet, www.PrometheanPlanet.com, has passed the half million mark, doubling in only one year. Promethean Planet was launched in 2006 and in less than four years has become the world's largest online community for users of interactive learning technology.

Available in ten languages with members in over 150 countries, Promethean Planet is free to join and enables teachers from around the globe to exchange ideas, share new and innovative lessons and have access to a wide variety of professional development materials. The site contains over 16,000 fully customable lesson resources for all ages, representing over 225,000 pages of teaching material, and includes premium interactive educational content from leading publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Waterford Institute, Harper Collins and Oxford University Press.

Promethean Planet received the Worlddidac Foundation Award for Excellence in Education in 2008. Recent monthly statistics show that there were more than 250,000 unique visits, 5 million page views and over 550,000 downloads on the site[1]. Planet is currently supported in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Kazakh and Arabic.

Brent Taggart, Chief Strategy Officer commented: “Promethean Planet’s growth has surpassed all our expectations and has become the world’s leading online community of its kind. As well as providing an unrivalled resource base, helping teachers to prepare and make lessons more interactive, it is also a global forum for members to interact and share ideas. Its success plays a key role in helping to bring learning to life in the classroom.”



[1] November 2009