Hello readers,

First up, my apologies that there wasn’t a blog post last week, but I and my colleagues were extremely busy for reasons I’ll explain further down.

It’s been an interesting two weeks for us here at Wishtrac.  We’ve had a glimpse of summer with some sunny weather, which was a welcome change from the gloomy weather we normally get.  We’ve also been looking ahead to the biggest sporting event of the year – the football World Cup in South Africa.

To mark the occasion, we’ve created two brand new products – one of which is completely free.  The first product, the 2010 International Football Activity Pack, retails on disk at £4.95 and contains over 100 pages of printable resources, including a number of fun football-themed activities.  These activities include simple puzzles such as Dot to Dot, Spot the Difference, and Navigate the Maze as well more complex puzzles such as Number Puzzles, Anagrams, Word Searches, and Quizzes.  There are up to three difficulty levels for each activity, so even the football-mad ones will find a challenge!

The second product is the Interactive Whiteboard World Cup Wallchart, which is available as a free download right now on our website.  The software is designed to be used on an interactive whiteboard, and allows scores and match results to be tracked each day.  Match reports can also be written and saved; pupils who don’t normally feel motivated to write might suddenly want to when Rooney scores a hat-trick!  As mentioned before, this product is completely free – all you need to do is fill in the details on this page and then click on the ‘Submit’ button to start the download.  We’ve had a few people clicking on the ‘Buy Now’ button, which won’t work as the product is only available as a free download.

Well, I hope you and your pupils enjoy our new products and are looking forward to the World Cup as much as we are.  I won’t be posting next week because of half-term, but check back in two weeks on the 10th of June for more news and updates.