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.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

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

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

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).

World Cup Promotion

Express Yourself

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.

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.

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!

Final few 2010 Calendars left. Contact us now for one!

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.

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

Promethean Planet membership passes half million mark

Promethean Planet membership Passes the Half Million mark

Membership doubles in one year

Blackburn, UK, 7^th 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.”

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[1] November 2009

FREE Visualiser Offer

We have a brilliant new offer to all customers who purchase a Promethean ACTIVboard+2 Interactive Whiteboard system before Dec 31st 2009.

Every purchase of ACTIVboard+2 systems (fixed height or height adjustable) will receive a free ActiView 322 Visualiser.

Put any object under Actiview's gooseneck-mounted lens and lamp combinations and your treasures, text, even flora are projected in vivid detail on your ACTIVboard. Examine the smallest shell with automatic zoom and focus. Share your work with the entire classroom or build an image library of everyday objects and extraordinary finds for use in your lessons.

ActiView puts the whole wide world on display.

ACTIVexpression Try and Buy Offer

Official Opening of Pond Park PS

SOS GROUP was delighted to be invited back to the official opening of Pond Park Primary School on Friday 9th October. The school looked fantastic and we wish all well in their great new surroundings. Principal, Victor Spindler, invited Cecil Kirkwood OBE to officially open the new school 28 years after he opened the previous school. Guests were treated to a wonderful performance from the school choir.

TOP GEAR filming outside SOS Group

Traffic came to a standstill today outside SOS GROUP as Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear crew tunred up for filming. The star of the hit BBC television series was in town recording for the current series.

Ashfield Girls' High School Official Opening

SOS GROUP was thrilled to be invited to the official opening of Ashfield Girls' High School on Tuesday 29th September. This new state of the art school is a wonderful facility for the pupils and also the community of East Belfast. Guests were treated to performances from the School Choir and Rock Challenge 2009. Speeches were given by new principal Alison Mungavin and outgoing principal Adeline Dinsmore OBE before guests were able to take a tour of the fantastic new facilities.

Love Your Whitebaord Event

'Love Your Whiteboard' Roadshows

SOS GROUP and Promethean will shortly be holding some local 'LoveYour Whiteboard' events across Northern Ireland. Regardless of what brand of interactive whiteboard you are using, and what subject areas you need support with, these free, local sessions will give you more confidence at the whiteboard, pass on some great time­saving tips and exchange exciting lesson ideas.

We want to show you how your interactive whiteboard and software could be used more effectively; saving you time in planning, teaching and assessing. Capture your students’ attention, rejuvenate topics and involving the whole class, without adding to your workload.

What’s more, we’ll be giving away free software trials, DVDs and magazine supplements with loads of ideas, suggestions and resources.

So what are you waiting for? Come along to one of our free ‘Love Your Whiteboard Roadshows after school hours. For more information visit www.PrometheanPlanet.com/LYWR or contact us on 028 9046 9047.