The entire wishtrac.com web site has been inundated with visitors over the past week – our busiest week ever, so far…..

We’ve posted a free world cup wallchart as a download from the site (click here) and in the past week around 1000 people have downloaded it, to use in their classrooms during the World Cup.  The free wallchart software not only allows pupils to enter the scores of each World Cup game and watch the draw unfold towards the final, but pupils can also add match headlines and reports, and background information on each team taking part in the tournament!  As a way to encourage pupils to do some report writing, it’s ideal!

Along with the free World Cup Interactive Whiteboard wallchart, we’ve also produced an accompanying International Football Activity Pack (click here).  The activity pack contains over 100 pages of printable resources on a CD ROM, including the following:

• 32 A4 Flags to colour in (ideal for a World Cup display of flags, or classroom bunting)
• Simple Puzzles ideal for Key Stage 1 (Dot to Dot, Spot the Difference, Follow the Line, Mazes) – with up to three differentiated levels for each activity
• More Complex Puzzles for Key Stage 2 (Number puzzles, Anagrams, Word Searches and Quizzes) – with up to three differentiated levels for each activity
• Design Templates – to enable children to design football kits or boots, write match reports, or label a map of the world
• Research & Fact Finding:  32 information sheets for each competing nation, along with templates for children to complete, having found information in the text – ideal for classroom display!

Priced at just £4.95, the materials on the CD ROM can be freely printed or photocopied throughout the school.  CDs will normally be posted same day, so if you order today the CD should arrive within 2 working days.