HCSS Education, one of the UK’s leading education finance specialists, has appointed an experienced school business manager to its school outreach team to help forge strong relationships with schools and academies and provide them with expert financial guidance. Karen Rudd will join the Macclesfield company as an account manager, where she will be responsible for […]
Training provider SSS Learning Ltd announces the launch of ‘Preparing for Prevent’, the easy-to-use, cost-effective online training resource, enabling schools and academies to ensure they comply with their statutory ‘Prevent’ duties and help protect those vulnerable to radicalisation, extremism or being drawn into terrorism. Under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 […]
The finalists for the 18th annual Bett Awards have been announced by Bett organisers i2i Events Group, and partners the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA). The awards, considered to be the most prominent in the sector, received an impressive amount of quality entries, a strong indication of the innovation and commitment of the education […]
Northants secondary school achieves measurable impact on its improvement plans Angie Dabbs, Assistant Headteacher, Moulton School and Science College Having always prided itself on delivering high-quality collaborative professional development, Moulton School and Science College in Northamptonshire recently boosted teachers’ progress still further by using BlueSky Projects, to design and manage a programme of cross-school collaboration. […]
A recent study carried out by YouGov (Oct 2015) on behalf of EdPlace has shown that many parents would like to give their child extra support but aren’t able to afford it, thus exacerbating the gap between ‘those who can’, and ‘those who cannot’. On top of this, 34% of the parents who are using […]
Ask any pupil about their ‘worst’ subject at school and you will often get the answer, ‘maths’. Many adults will agree – weirdly it’s still socially acceptable to say you are ‘bad at maths’, or ‘not a maths person’. This has got to change and I’m convinced that removing the ‘fear’ around the subject […]
Educational apps specialist, and the UK’s leading provider of educational posters and interactive software, Daydream Education, will unveil its newest app, Maths Tutor at the world’s leading event for learning technology, Bett 2016. Maths Tutor provides schools with a complete maths learning solution. The multi-platform app, which features a National Curriculum alignment section, incorporates a […]
On Friday 6th October Canterbury Steiner School hosted a concert in aid of Catching Lives a local charity which supports the homeless in Canterbury. The musical event was organised by three class 11 pupils Alice Baker-Russell, Rose Pettengell and Serena Fleming with the help and support of other students and staff members. Class 11 organises […]
On Saturday 21st November 11:00-17:00 a corner of Kent will be transformed into a mini wonderland. At the bottom of a valley bordering the Kentish downs is the Canterbury Steiner school just minutes from Canterbury. Each year the school celebrates the beginning of Advent with their Advent Fair. The whole school is decorated and families […]
Kortext, the UK’s leading digital textbook platform, is working with Microsoft to give students and universities easy access to thousands of textbooks anytime, anywhere and on any device. The partnership agreement will see Kortext integrate its digital textbook software into the Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based platform, now used by over 100 universities in the UK […]
