School APPs: All Grades

MS Office Apps

Microsoft Office is the most universal and widely used office package for document editing and office facilities. It consists of a number of programs for documents, presentations, spreadsheets and mail.

These Microsoft Apps are part of your son’s Office 365 license and may be downloaded free of charge.

Once downloaded, please open all these Apps and sign in with your son’s Bishops email address and Bishops password. When prompted, please select Work or school account.

OneDrive

Microsoft OneDrive helps you to share documents and presentations made on your iPad with your teacher. In other words, it helps you to hand in work.

Outlook

Outlook is your son’s Bishops email account.

Word

Word allows users to read documents on their iPad. To create and edit documents, users require an Office 365 subscription. The MS Office 365 subscription will be purchased for your son by Bishops.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint allows users to view PowerPoint presentations on their iPads. To create and edit presentations, users require an Office 365 subscription. The MS Office 365 subscription will be purchased for your son by Bishops.

Teams

Microsoft Teams is our online classroom offering a classroom chat, video lessons and content collaboration.

Excel

Excel allows users to view Excel spreadsheets on their iPads. To create and edit spreadsheets user require an Office 365 subscription. The MS Office subscription will be purchased for your son by Bishops.

Safari

Safari is the web browser that comes pre installed on all Apple devices. It is faster and more energy efficient than other browsers, so sites are more responsive and your battery lasts longer between charges.

Show Me

	ShowMe turns your iPad into an interactive whiteboard! You can draw, add pictures, record voice-overs and share your creations online. It’s an amazingly simple app that anyone can use, no matter how young or old!
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Clips

Clips is a free app that lets you make fun videos. With a few taps you can create and send a video message or tell a quick story with artistic filters, animated text, music, emoji, and fun stickers featuring characters from Star Wars, Disney Pixar and more.

Thinglink

Welcome to the future of images.

Thinglink assists you to share images and make them come alive by adding video and notes and even music.

Stop Motion Studio

	Stop Motion Studio is the world’s easiest app to get you into stop motion movie making.
	Help Video:

iMovie

iMovie lets you create videos and tell stories like never before.

iMovie offers:

themes with matching titles, transitions and music
slow-motion, fast-forward, picture-in-picture and split-screen effects
soundtracks using built-in music and sound effects or songs from your music library and your own narration
Apple-designed video filters
Hollywood-style trailer templates with stunning graphics and original scores by some of the world’s top film composers

Mathletics

Welcome to the wonderful world of Maths!

Mathletics helps learners enjoys Maths and improve their results. It is used by more than 10 000 schools world wide and over 3.5 million learners.

Mathletics covers all aspects of Maths. It contains more than 1 000 learning activities and responds to your child’s individual strengths and weaknesses.

Bishops has purchased a license for your son and he will be given his login details at school.

Visit the Mathletics Website

Sushi Monster

Meet Sushi Monster! A game to practice, reinforce, and extend maths fact fluency is completely engaging and appropriately challenging.

Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.

Dictionary & Thesaurus

This is a Dictionary and Thesaurus App. Search 1.3 million definitions from the best dictionaries in the world including:

* Webster’s Dictionary
* Roget’s Thesaurus
* The American Heritage Dictionary

This app also has the option to play an audio recording of the word so that you can hear how it sounds and is pronounced.

QR Code Reader

Use the free version to scan and read QR Codes and Barcodes.

Useful features:

scan QR codes and barcodes – simply point & hold!
scan history

Google Maps

Google Maps makes navigating your world faster and easier. It provides comprehensive, accurate maps of 220 countries and territories and over 15,000 cities and towns. A Street View is also available.

Socrative

Use Socrative Student to participate in quizzes, questionnaires, polls, exit tickets and space races. Results are instantly graded and can be displayed in a variety of interesting and visual ways.

Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they’ll be prompted to join their teacher’s room via the teacher’s unique code. No student accounts are necessary!

Kidspiration

Maps Lite

With Kidspiration maps Lite, students create visual maps that build reading, writing and thinking skills.

The app helps learners to organize and classify information, gain sight word knowledge and expand their ideas into written and verbal expression.

Kidspiration Maps Lite helps learners:

Develop strong thinking skills
Strengthen reading and writing skills
Build conceptual understanding in maths

Visit the Kidspiration website

Find My iPad

If you misplace your iPad this app will allow you to use any other iOS device to find it.

By making use of the built in GPS or networking features of your iPad, the app allows you to:

locate your missing iPad on a map
lock it remotely
play an alert tone
display a message on your iPad
erase all the data on your iPad

Simply install the free app, open it, and sign in with the Apple ID you use for iCloud. Please note: Find My iPad must be enabled in the iCloud settings on your iPad before you can locate it using this app.

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ALL GRADES: Required classroom APPs