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Free webinar to help DSLs at Multi-Academy Trusts spot students at risk online

Digital safeguarding leads (DSLs), Teachers and IT managers from Multi-academy Trusts (MATs) across the UK are invited to register for a free webinar designed to help spot potential online threats that could be impacting their students, while understanding the benefits digital monitoring solutions offer for their school or college.   Taking place on March 11th […]

North London Pupils Lead World in Trialling New Technology

Pupils at a North London primary school are discovering a whole new way of learning, as the first children in the world to use a new app that brings 3D dinosaurs, spaceships and ancient civilisations into the classroom.   Anson Primary School in Cricklewood is the first school to use Sandbox AR, a cutting edge, no-cost […]

World’s first personal defibrillator launches in the UK

At up to one tenth of the price, size, and weight of conventional AEDs, CellAED® is designed to reduce unnecessary deaths from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – and is available for pre-order at cellaed.io       The launch of CellAED® comes as new research reveals just one third of UK adults would be able to recognise the symptoms of […]

Trust leaders determined to grow this year, despite multitude of barriers

78% of trust leaders surveyed say their trust is planning to grow this year Yet most say they have experienced barriers to growth including ‘reluctance of schools to academise’ (48%) and schools needing to prioritise dealing with the impact of COVID-19 (42%) Trust leaders’ growth plans driven by desire to ‘to allow more children to […]

Short Édition introduces the Short Story Cube at BETT 2022

In the UK, reading for pleasure is at an all-time low: in 2020, less than half of children and young people said they enjoy reading, according to the National Literacy Trust.  Short Édition is on a mission to change that and will be at BETT show (stand NK31) to introduce the Short Story Cube, a […]

The world’s first IB special autism school building opens in Cambridge

The world’s first International Baccalaureate (IB) special autism school building has officially opened its doors, enabling The Cavendish School to accept an additional 50 students this term in Years 3 – 7.     The school, which started teaching in September 2021, was previously located in temporary accommodation at Girton Glebe Primary School with capacity […]

College wins pioneering mental health award for the second time

Impington Village College, on the outskirts of Cambridge, has been awarded the Gold Status School Mental Health Award by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools for the second time. This is in recognition of its continuous commitment to outstanding mental health and wellbeing provision for students and staff.   The Carnegie […]

Launch of askOLA by Education Taskforce

  Combines academic ‘catch up’ and mental wellbeing   Schools choosing additional catch-up programmes    Pupil-led support alongside tutoring     Today (March 3rd) award-winning EdTech provider GLUU has spearheaded a taskforce of leading education partners to launch askOLA. The pioneering programme allows pupil-led learning with access to wellbeing support and saves teachers time by reducing […]

SCHOOLCHILDREN CELEBRATE WORLD BOOK DAY AT DOWNING STREET

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of World Book Day, Year 6 children from Hillingdon Primary School in Uxbridge enjoyed a reception at No.10 Downing Street. At the 90-minute ‘I Am A Reader’ event, the children enjoyed a presentation from Rashmi Sirdeshpande (author of World Book Day £1 book Think Like a Boss: Discover the skills […]