Vindolanda vs Panoptic

‘The Missing Dead’ is a new educational app to be played at Roman Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall. The app was developed in partnership between Newcastle University and the Vindolanda Trust and funded by the Arts Council England. It is a 2D narrative game which sees the player visit different buildings on the site and pick up clues to help solve an 1800-year-old mystery. Based on archaeological evidence excavated from the site, including the remains of the child skeleton, the game takes the player back in time from that archaeological discovery in 2010 to c. 230CE to try to solve the mystery. Guided by Aquila the Eagle the player will learn about what life would have been like at Vindolanda in the 3rd century AD by exploring the diverse community that lived there. Users follow Marcus, a Tribune at the nearby Roman Fort of Magna (next to the Roman Army Museum), who receives a request from his friend Vitalis to help him find his missing slave. The app is aimed at Key Stage 2 students (7-11-year olds) but can be enjoyed by any age. It deals with difficult, real-life subject matter, but handles this material with sensitivity: students learn about their past in a way designed to make them ask their own questions and to piece together the clues and information they are given to help them solve the mysteries, just like a real archaeologist! At the end of the game there is also an opportunity to go to the museum and to see the objects that appear as evidence in the game. They can also see the skeleton and discover for themselves how archaeologists have used the information available to learn as much as possible about its past.

Panoptic is the app your School runs on. It needs a School account: enter your School code, sign in, and the School day is in one place. If your School does not use Panoptic, there is nothing in here you can open. WHAT YOU SEE DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ARE One app, three experiences. Pupils, parents and staff sign in to the same app and each land on what matters to them. Your School decides what your account can reach, so there is nothing to set up and no wrong version to download. FOR PUPILS AND PARENTS - The week's timetable: every lesson, room, set and teacher, with the day you are in marked. - School reports and assessments as the School published them. - Attendance, day by day and session by session, with the rate alongside it. - Exam candidate numbers when the School has issued them. - Messages from the School, by email and as a notification on your phone. - For parents, the same view of each of your children. FOR STAFF - Registers taken in a few taps, for your own lessons or for a colleague you are covering. - School reports written in the shape your School designed, with the grade scales, the field lengths and the deadlines it set. - The full pupil, staff and contact lists, with each person's record behind them: form, house, sets, teachers, attendance, relations and notes. - Lesson cover, free periods and absence summaries. - Messages to a year group, a house, a set or one family, from your School's own sending address. SEARCH IS THE FRONT DOOR One field finds any pupil, member of staff, contact or page in the app. It is on the home screen, it is a keystroke away everywhere else, and it is how most people use Panoptic. IT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S APP Panoptic wears your School's name, crest and colour, and your School's data lives in your School's own database. Sign in to more than one School on the same device, which staff who work at two and parents with children at two can both do, and switch between them without signing out. MADE TO LIVE IN - Light and dark, following your device or set here. - More contrast, for when frosted panels are hard to read. - Reduced motion, which also follows your device's own setting. - English, French, Spanish and German. - Built for VoiceOver and for a large text size. Panoptic does not take payments and shows no advertising. SUPPORT Ask your School first: your account, your permissions and your data are theirs to manage. For anything else, the support link on this page reaches us.