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A new report into digital resilience from family internet safety experts Parent Zone asks ‘Is it time to rethink online parental controls?’

 Ordinary Magic for the Digital Age: Understanding Digital Online Resilience by Rachel Rosen Instinctively, adults who care about children want to protect them from risk and prevent them having bad experiences online. The trouble is that we cannot guarantee a safe internet. Technological and social realities mean parental controls and filtering can only serve as […]

Teachers to get hands-on with computing and STEM solutions at Bett 2017

LEGO Education, supported by Hope Education for primary and JTRS for secondary, will deliver workshops at Bett 2017 that show teachers how hands-on learning using technology and computing can benefit STEM classrooms Every teacher who  prebooks and attends a workshop will receive a free LEGO® kit and will be entered into a prize draw to […]

Work starts on £45 million specialist education provision for Leeds

  Leeds City Council has embarked upon an ambitious scheme that involves a £45 million capital investment to build three new special schools in the city. The scheme involves partnership with Wellspring Academy Trust, a Trust with specialism in the sector, to deliver substantial long term savings in the city’s special needs budget.   The […]

New website launched to help schools link with parents more effectively

12 January 2017: EES for Schools has today announced the release of its new home-school communications website, Target Tracker Link. The addition complements the existing Target Tracker software that is used by more than one in four primary schools across the UK, as well as the recently released Target Tracker app for iOS. Teachers are […]

Boosting student performance and well-being at Ormiston Sudbury Academy

Kingswood’s ‘Realise Your Potential’ course develops the resilience and skills students need to succeed not only in academic learning but in work and wider life   The school Ormiston Sudbury Academy (OSA) in Suffolk is a mainstream state school for pupils aged from 11 to 19, rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted and now well on its […]

Safeguarding in a modern world: SSS Learning debuts fresh approach to online training at Education Show 2017

  Schools and nurseries can now deliver the highest quality safeguarding training to meet statutory and Ofsted inspection requirements, whilst making vast cost savings with SSS Learning’s new e-learning courses, debuting at the Education Show 2017 (stand H81).   Developed as a ‘much needed’ catalyst for change in safeguarding training, the concise courses are fully […]

Scotland’s first prep school seals deal with IT solutions provider

  Multi-platform IT solutions provider Opal has bolstered its position in the education market by adding the oldest independent boarding and day prep school in Scotland to its client list. Founded in 1873, Cargilfield School was the first prep school to be established in Scotland and currently caters for more than 300 children aged 3-13 […]

TRAINING PROVIDERS MUST STRENGTHEN DIGITAL OFFERING TO ACCOMMODATE STUDENTS DEMANDING 24/7 ACCESS TO LEARNING

Education and training providers must embrace technology-enhanced learning solutions or risk losing out to more innovative providers, awarding organisation YMCA Awards has warned today. A newly released report from the international awarding organisation reveals that increasing numbers of students now expect access to on-demand learning, enabling them to learn at a time and place suited […]

Search Begins to Find the UK’s Most Inspiring School Gardeners

  Royal Horticultural Society’s school gardening competition is now open for entries   The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is calling on school gardeners from across the country to enter the search to find the next generation of star horticulturists, as it launches its annual competition, the RHS School Gardeners of the Year 2017. The competition […]