Ed-Pax

This company is another which provides materials for the interactive whiteboard and for the non-specialist primary language teacher. I do worry, I’m afraid, on this reliance on technology to replace specialism and from what I can see from the sample of this product, the technology is not being as widely exploited as it might be, as it is tending to replicate the old analogue way of doing things.
Still, this product does cover a lot of ground.
Disk 1 contains:
• All About Me
• Alphabet
• Colours
• Days of the Week
• Family
• How We Look
• Months of the Year
• Numbers 0 - 12
• Numbers 13 - 39
• Numbers 40 - 69
• Pets
• The Seasons
• Weather
• Zoo Animals
Disk 2 follows with:
• The House
• Classroom Language
• Classroom Objects
• Free-time
• Jobs
• Countries
• Nationality
• Numbers 70 - 1000
• Shopping
• Shops
• Time
• The Body
• The Town
• The Village
As the web site quite rightly boasts, it can be used alongside an existing course or as a stand alone.
The packs – also available in Spanish and German, includes planning and evaluation sheets for teachers, though I’m not sure what the point of providing those for the interactive whiteboard is.
However, the pictures which accompany these materials are colourful and motivating and represent good practice in both primary learning and interactive whiteboard usage.
The prices for the materials are reasonable:
French Disk 1 £189
French Disk 2 £189
French Disk 1 and 2 £350
French Workbook £24.99
*All prices exclusive of VAT. A postage & packaging charge of £4.95 applies.
This may be a package worth investing in for the primary teacher.