SUMMER 2019 COMPETITION: Virtual Reality Community Playlists Over the summer, we are looking for teachers to upload their own exciting Virtual Reality Playlists to our Community Library with the winning school receiving a FREE ClassVR headset and FOUR FREE ARCubes, plus a featured spot in our September newsletter! COMPETITION DETAILS If you have a Playlist [...]

GEOGRAPHY VR CASE STUDY: Weather & The Seasons (Student Age 5 - 6)Prince Albert Primary School (Birmingham) “Children had previously looked at the four seasons and what they associated with each season. They had looked at weather and what weather to expect in each season; we explored simple reasons as to why certain weather is [...]

Using ClassVR to Boost Engagement at Crowlands Primary SchoolCrowlands Primary School, Romford, UK Crowlands is a larger-than-average sized primary school which serves the London Borough of Havering. It became a ClassVR Pioneer school back in March and since then has invested in three more class sets to boost engagement across the school. FIRST VIRTUAL TRIP [...]

Using ClassVR to Drive Progress at St Wilfrid's Academy.St Wilfrid's Academy, Blackburn, UK Serving the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen and parts of Pennine Lancashire, St Wilfrid’s Church of England Academy places a strong emphasis on engagement for all students. The staff are committed to embracing modern technology to maximise learning, making them an ideal [...]

Using virtual reality as a stimulus to story writing in Primary SchoolBarry Island Primary School, Vale of Glamorgan (Wales, UK) Barry Island Primary School serves the community of Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan. As a Hwb+ centre of excellence and an Apple Regional Training Centre, Barry Island Primary is a leading technology school [...]

The impact of virtual reality on creative writing at Penybont Primary SchoolPenybont Primary School, Bridgend (Wales) “My name is Anna Alford and I am a teacher at Penybont Primary. Over the last 12 years I have taught in all year groups, but I am currently in Year 5/6. At Penybont, we’re proud to be a [...]

ClassVR to feature at Mobile World Congress in conjunction with innovative tech company Crunchfish ClassVR’s intuitive classroom solution will be showcased at this year’s Mobile World Congress in conjunction with its gesture-based technology partners Crunchfish. Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, organised by the GSMA and held in the [...]

Full of classroom ideas after launching ClassVR at the 2017 BETT show As this is my first ClassVR blog post, I’ll introduce myself- I’m Zoe, another one of Avantis’ Educational Specialists and former teachers. As part of my role, I’ll be getting schools started with their headsets, seeing how they are being used and along [...]

Penybont Primary School becomes a ClassVR Pioneer SchoolPenybont Primary School, Bridgend Building on their success of being a highly respected LearnPad Leader School for the past three years, Penybont Primary was considered to be best placed to become a Pioneer School for ClassVR, the world’s first affordable VR/AR solution designed to give schools everything they [...]

Virtual reality in the school classroom with ClassVR In today’s digital world, finding new ways to engage students, increase understanding and improve knowledge retention is ever more difficult. How can we utilise new technologies to address this? Einstein wisely stated ‘The only source of knowledge is experience’. So how do we deliver new experiences to [...]