Project HappyChild NEWS

10th April 2007

[for ongoing updates, see Latest Site News]

Hello again! ... a (very) long delay since we last wrote, due mainly to circumstances entirely beyond our direct control. Things are slowly getting back to normal here :) and we'd like to welcome the thousands of new subscribers who have signed up for this Newsletter in the intervening months.

Site visits have continued at an unbelievable level despite the frequent hold-ups at this end (like 150,000 e-mails queued and unable to get through! now fixed) and are currently averaging a million page views every three weeks. All the support from our visitors is very much appreciated :)

This will have to be the briefest of Newsletters - really just to touch base with everyone and give some sort of overview on what's been happening here recently.

Firstly, the dual-language worksheets area is progressing well - the French-English worksheets are receiving huge levels of visits; 400+ English-Russian vocabulary worksheets have just gone on line; Romanian verb worksheets are almost ready to go up; Spanish vocabulary content is completed and currently being checked; Spanish verbs in progress; Italian verbs being translated (someone to check Italian vocabulary is still needed, please!); Romanian vocabulary is being translated; Polish vocabulary is fairly near completion; and a number of other languages are in progress, including Swedish, Portuguese, Finnish and Bulgarian. Further offers of help from language professionals would be much appreciated :)

EVENTS CALENDAR: An awesome range of events for 2007 and beyond now appears on this year's Events Calendar - many benefitting Charities in the Project HappyChild Directory but others much further afield. Every type of event imaginable, from marathons worldwide and shark dives to "The Italian Job 2007" - events listings on line here.

ACCELERATED LEARNING: Michael Tipper's latest additions are now on line, two articles covering "The Top Ten Study Tips Of All Time" - useful insights, with the exam season approaching for many - see the Feature Articles index for links.

Spellings, Sounds + Meanings: We're delighted to say the "Sounds Database" is now completed, and that nearly 500 sound files are on line for the different sound sub-groups as a pronunciation guide for children learning English as a second language. We're still waiting for the related 2500-ish worksheets to be generated from New Zealand, but in the meantime there are template worksheets on line to allow this resource to be fully used in the interim.

Our schedule for the next three months is likely to be focussed mainly on progressing the dual-language worksheets and updating Andy's Guide to Pokemon, the latter a hugely-popular area of the site. With "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" due out worldwide on 21st July 2007, we're aware that the Harry Potter area here could also do with some pagebuilding! but time doesn't allow right now, and this along with the remaining areas of the site will be completed later, whenever things ease up a little here.

We'll be in touch again soon :)

Best regards,

Penny.

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