Subscription Information - Schools
What is Spark Island Online?
- What do I get when I subscribe? -
How much does it cost? - LEA partnership costs - Spark Island's guarantee
5 ways to subscribe - Downloadable guide to what Spark Island has to offer - Spark Island in SCORM and other formats
What is Spark Island Online?
It's an island of learning: Developed with teachers for teachers, Spark Island
Online is a teaching resource that allows you to use interactive activities for pupils to practise and reinforce core skills
in English, Maths, Science and ICT, for Early Years, Keys Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.
It's an island of fun: Spark Island's unique characters and stories capture pupils' imaginations. They can explore a virtual world designed to inspire creative classwork and to form a basis for inventive non-computer based group work.
It's more than a CD-ROM: With new interactive learning activities, information and teaching resources added each term, ever-expanding Spark Island Online will quickly become one of the most cost-effective ways of incorporating ICT into your teaching.
Subscription - What do I get?
- Access for an unlimited number of teachers and pupils within each individual subscribed school for a calendar year. With most systems, you only need enter your username and password once per computer.
- Access for teachers to Spark Island Online from home - allowing you to plan your lessons when and where you want.
- Personalised area for unlimited number of teachers to 'bookmark' their chosen activities, allowing easy access by pupils.
- Unlimited access to the full library of Spark Island Online learning activities for Early Years, KS1 and KS2 in English, Maths and Science, together with teaching resources for ICT, all of which have been developed in conjunction with practising teachers, educational specialists and successfully trialled in schools to deliver against clearly identified curriculum objectives.
- Unique Spark Island Activity Finder.
- A wide variety of printable materials and teaching suggestions supporting Spark Island activities.
- New learning activities and teaching resources every term.
- Regular online Spark newsletters detailing offers, new activities, and more.
- Unique 'no quibble, money back' guarantee.
- A Welcome Pack containing:
- Your 'Passport' to Spark Island letter
- Key Stage 1 Teacher's Book entitled 'Brilliant Lesson Plans Using Spark Island Online'
- Key Stage 2 Teacher's Book entitled 'Brilliant Lesson Plans Using Spark Island Online'
- a Spark Island poster
- a Spark Island mouse mat
- a Spark Island reward stickers
Subscription prices
A subscription to Spark Island costs just £2.50 per pupil per year. Subscribe today - call us on 01189 602 823 or email us at subscription@sparklearning.com - and give your whole school unlimited access to the Island, its characters and an ever expanding range of interactive learning adventures directly linked to the curriculum.
Prices are based on the number of pupils in your school, see below:
| | 12 months subscription | 24 months | Saving | 36 months | Saving |
| Nursery Only | £100 | £180 | 10% | £240 | 20% |
| 1 to 40 pupils | £100 | £180 | 10% | £240 | 20% |
| 41 to 500 pupils | £2.50
per pupil per year | £2.25
per pupil per year | 10% | £2.00
per pupil per year | 20% |
| 501 plus pupils | £1250 | £2250 | 10% | £3000 | 20% |
The cost of VAT will be added to these prices
Nothing to lose - our unique 'no quibble money back' guarantee means that if, within 14 days, you are not completely satisfied, we'll give you your money back.
Give your pupils a head start by subscribing to Spark Island now and discover the great benefits of learning adventures online: call us on 01189 602 823 or email us at subscription@sparklearning.com.
Curriculum Online Approved
Spark Island is fully approved by Curriculum Online and can be purchased with E-Learning Credits (England only).
Prices for more than one school buying together
(e.g. LEAs, Broadband consortia):
When more than one school is involved, we charge by the total number of pupils accessing the service, rather than by number of schools.
Although training is not necessary to use Spark Island Online, we do recommend that we run a number of familiarisation workshops. These together with set-up arrangements to activate the subscription and get schools using the service are negotiable on a case-by-case basis.
Please call us on 01189 602 823 to discuss your requirements.
Special rates for individual schools are available where LEAs recommend Spark Island to their schools rather than purchase a subscription on their behalf.
Please contact us for further details. Tel: 01189 602 823, Fax: 01189 343 900. Email: info@sparklearning.com.
Postal address: Spark Learning Limited, Royal Station Court, Station Road, Twyford, Berkshire RG10 9NF.
Schools in the following LEAs are eligible for a price discount of 36% as the North West Learning Grid has purchased 36% of Spark Island Online content for publication on the NWLG website www.nwlg.org.
| Blackburn | Halton | Rochdale | Trafford |
| Blackpool | Knowsley | Salford | Warrington |
| Bolton | Liverpool | Sefton | Wigan |
| Bury | Manchester | St Helens | Wirral |
| Cheshire | Oldham | Stockport | |
Worcestershire LEA has negotiated special rates with Spark Learning for subscriptions purchased centrally through them. Please contact James Green at Worcestershire LEA for details of the latest subscription prices. Tel: 01527 570566 Email: JMGreen@worcestershire.gov.uk
The unique Spark Island 'no quibble money back' guarantee gives you complete peace of mind.
So confident are we that you will value your visits to Spark Island, if within 14 days you are not completely satisfied email us at subscription@sparklearning.com explaining why you want us to cancel your subscription and we'll refund your money.
Note: This does not affect your statutory rights
1. Subscribe to Spark Island online: click here for the secure subscription form
2. Subscribe to Spark Island by email: subscription@sparklearning.com.
3. Subscribe to Spark Island by fax: click for a printable form in PDF format.
4. Call the SUBSCRIPTION HOTLINE on 01189 602 823, during normal office hours.
5. Send your subscription to Spark Learning Limited, Royal Station Court, Station Road, Twyford, Berkshire RG10 9NF.
Other formatsOur activities are all available as individual or combination SCORM packages for incorporation into Virtual or Managed Learning Environments (VLEs and MLEs). For LEAs operating wide area networks, we can provide an offline version of the site for hosting on the WAN. Curriculum Online compliant xml metadata is available for free, for any activity, on request. Contact us at info@sparklearning.com for more details about these products.
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