Author: Donna Tandy, Academy Improvement Partner at Focus Trust, a charitable multi-academy Trust based in the North West of England made up of schools from across West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. _______________________ It has recently been reported that as many as 2,000 schools will still be underfunded in seven years’ time and, with backlash from […]
Raynes Park High School in partnership with the Wimbledon Club has opened its new £500,000 AstroTurf hockey pitch. The new pitch is not only being used for school matches, but also elite hockey games. The Wimbledon Club funded the new pitch and is paying for its ongoing maintenance. Kirsten Heard, Headteacher, Raynes Park High School, […]
Young adult novel The Year I Didn’t Eat by Samuel Pollen will be launched by ZunTold Publishing in March 2019, as part of their new Fiction as Therapy arm, and coinciding with charity Beat’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Drawing from author Pollen’s own personal experience of anorexia, The Year I Didn’t Eat brings to market […]
Birmingham – Wizenoze and Prowise join forces. With the collaboration, Prowise enables users to gain access to The Web for Classrooms, through the free education software Prowise Presenter. This innovative technology provides relevant, reliable and readable online information that is suitable for an educational environment and offered at the appropriate level for students. The Web […]
A Dulwich pupil is reaching for the stars this Christmas, after winning a national science competition for primary schools. 10- year-old Lottie from Alleyn’s Junior School scooped the top prize in the junior category of the Empiribox ‘Win a Star’ competition, which invited children across the country to invent an alien – and take their […]
Open, agnostic, secure platforms prioritise ease of use and contemporary pedagogies to create engaging learning environments. Drawing from 30 years as innovators in visual display solutions, ViewSonic will be showcasing their total solutions for education, including ViewBoard, their front of class interactive digital whiteboard and myViewBoard, a hybrid cloud software platform, that in combination provide […]
In a bid to try alternative protein sources and learn more about future food sustainability, Manor House girls sampled some insect culinary delights for lunch in a ‘I’m a Celebrity’ style challenge. In a ‘I’m a Celebrity’ style challenge to coincide with the final of the popular TV programme, girls in the Prep and Senior […]
False alarms cost the UK economy £1 billion a year Over 95% of automatically-generated fire alarms are false alarms Fire and Rescue Services distracted from genuine emergencies over the busy festive period As the countdown to Christmas gets well and truly underway with offices and places of work getting into […]
A UK firm has launched a revolutionary product designed to tackle the problem of plastic pollution caused by children’s craft glitter. Glitter company Ronald Britton, has launched a new eco-friendly glitter which will degrade naturally in the environment and is based on plants rather than plastic. The new product, Craft Bioglitter®, will be distributed […]
From technology that turns urine into electricity to care robots for the elderly, the MadeAtUni campaign celebrates the transformational impact of UK universities Futuristic headsets to help paralysed people to communicate, smart baby buggies for the blind, a toilet that flushes without water and the development of a new scrum technique to make rugby safer […]
