Win the opportunity for your school to visit Buckingham Palace by making a special birthday cake for Her Majesty The Queen! Following the hugely popular Cook for The Queen competition for children that was held for the Diamond Jubilee, the organisers, Love British Food, are inviting schools to join in this summer’s Royal celebrations and […]
José Picardo, assistant principal and languages teacher at Surbiton High School, explains how Showbie’s audio feedback functionality makes learning a language more comprehensive, and more exciting for students. Surbiton High School is a 1:1 school, where every student and staff member has their own iPad or tablet device. While this is an encouraging step in […]
Some schools generating as much as £350,000 annually by using BookingsPlus helping them to cope with ever tightening budgets Even if only 10% of the UK’s 24,317 schools adopted such online booking and marketing systems it could virtually wipe out the £103m schools deficit Kajima Community, which specialises in marketing and managing the […]
Over 80 per cent of schools claim they would be able to provide a better quality of education if they were given greater freedom over managing their budgets, new research has found. A study by HCSS Education, a leading education finance specialist, has found that 82% of schools think that more independence to make financial […]
Schools behaviour tsar wants to ‘tear up gold stars’ The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), the UK’s leading trade association for education suppliers, and three of the UK’s largest school sticker producers called on the government to trust teachers to decide for themselves which resources to use to motivate pupils in the classroom. […]
Some schools generating as much as £350,000 annually by using BookingsPlus helping them to cope with ever tightening budgets Even if only 10% of the UK’s 24,317 schools adopted such online booking and marketing systems it could virtually wipe out the £103m schools deficit Kajima Community, which specialises in marketing and managing the […]
Digital professional learning event will be held at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum on 12th April Teachers from Discovery Education’s UK partner schools are invited to attend a unique ‘Day of Discovery’ next month, which will showcase the very latest creative ideas and strategies for using digital resources in the classroom. ‘Day of Discovery Birmingham’ will […]
Royal Horticultural Society and UK Space Agency rocket seeds returned to Earth from International Space Station this week Half a million children across the UK are a step closer to Rocket Science this week as rocket seeds that will be grown as part of Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and UK Space Agency educational initiative, Rocket […]
UK National Apprenticeship Week: Alcoa Foundation and Discovery Education host live virtual field trip for pupils worldwide Schools invited to take part in live broadcast from the Alcoa Kitts Green plant in Birmingham on 4th March for exclusive look at careers available in today’s advanced manufacturing industry Secondary schools from across the UK […]
Sheffield schools, Sheffield Council and leading tracking and assessment provider, Educater, have partnered together to develop STATonline, a system which helps schools to adapt to life after levels. Educater will become the sole online provider to use the STAT Sheffield assessment grids, and STATonline will be the only system to offer both electronic recording for […]
