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Are children key to a healthier London? TfL’s STARS programme suggests so
• Participating schools have achieved an average eight per cent reduction in car use on the journey to school • Almost half of London schools are accredited to TfL’s STARS programme to encourage active and safer travel • Research shows that a quarter...
HILLINGDON SCHOOL WINS NATIONAL CODING GOLD AWARD
Primary pupils create thousands of apps to take computing prize Pupils at St Swithun Wells’ Catholic Primary School in Hillingdon are celebrating after receiving a national computing award. The West London school has been recognised as a UK Coding...
Can earlier intervention help children deal with anger? – Words by Hayley Sherwood of 1 Decision
As we approach the season of goodwill, National Anger Awareness Week (1st-7th December) is well placed in the calendar to shine a light on anger as a social issue which needs to be brought out into the open and addressed effectively. Last year the...
HART Prize for Human Rights: Inspiring young people to engage with human rights
Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) have announced the 2019 deadline for the HART Prize for Human Rights. The Prize includes two competitions, an essay and a creative competition, which encourage young people (aged 11 – 25) to examine and engage...
University of Exeter team pioneers virtual field trips in 3D
3D gaming technology is being used by a team from the University of Exeter to take students and researchers on virtual field trips to the Arctic Circle. The Interactive Virtual Environments for Teaching and Assessment – InVEnTA – uses the latest...
Ten-week literacy intervention in West Yorkshire boys’ school improves reading age by more than a year in 80% of Year 8 pupils
Head teacher at Upper Batley High School Samantha Vickers explains how Supply Desk’s reading intervention programme ‘Love to Read’ improved pupils’ reading age across the school, which has a high proportion of English as an additional language...
Screening, suicide and support while on waiting lists: the questions children and young people want answered about their mental health
The McPin Foundation, the mental health research charity, today reveals the Top 10 most important, unanswered questions about children and young people’s mental health at a launch event in Parliament. The Right People, Right Questions project set out...
Six in ten Education workers feel lonely
– British Red Cross releases new research on the extent of loneliness in the UK – Six in ten people (60%) working in the Education sector feel always, often or sometimes lonely according to new research released by the British Red Cross...
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT TO VOTE FOR AN AMAZING TEACHER
People throughout Wales have until Friday 30th of November to nominate outstanding teachers and Youth workers working in schools all over Wales for the Professional Teaching Awards Cymru 2019, and with a new category being introduced this...
Ofsted and the college curriculum: AoC responds
In her speech at the Association of Colleges Annual Conference and Exhibition today, Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman said that colleges must do more to help college students reach their potential. In response, Kirsti Lord, Deputy Chief...
Tackling the epidemic of cyberbullying needs a coordinated response
This week, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is running 2018’s Anti-Bullying Week – a timely reminder that, despite our best efforts, bullying remains a serious problem for many schools, children and parents. Bullying is a major factor behind the...
Options Trent Acres school celebrates Outstanding Ofsted
An Options Trent Acres student learning. Options Trent Acres, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire, a special independent school for boys and girls aged 8-18 with autism and a range of complex needs, including mild learning disability, is celebrating having...
