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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL OFFERS FREE PLACES FOR LOCAL PUPILS
A popular London fee-paying school is offering two local children prized places at the establishment . . . worth more than £11,000 a year per child. Avenue House School, an independent day school in Ealing, is looking for two new Year 1 pupils to be...
BookTrust comment on the announcement of Lauren Child as the new Waterstones Children’s Laureate
Lauren Child, artist and highly-acclaimed author and illustrator of the bestselling and award-winning Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean picture books and Ruby Redfort novels, has today (Wednesday 7 June) been crowned the 10th Waterstones Children’s...
London student wins National Theatre New Views playwriting competition
A play written by 17 year old Beattie Green from St Marylebone School in London has won the National Theatre’s annual playwriting competition for 15–19 year olds, New Views. Beattie’s play Dead Don’t Floss was chosen out of over 300 entries for a...
School Leadership Needs To Change…
The last decade has seen increasing levels of pressure, public scrutiny and personal accountability begin to seriously impact on the mental health and emotional well-being of our nation’s Head teachers and school leaders. Education...
Industry immersion: teachers get hands-on experience at IBM Computing Summer School
This July, teachers will have the chance to step out of the classroom setting and into the technology industry with the IBM Computing Summer School, which will take place 3-5 July 2017, at IBM Southbank (one of three Summer Schools that IBM is...
Support Needed To Launch Vital Critical Thinking Book For Children
AN ACADEMIC has launched a crowdfunding campaign in order to publish a book on critical thinking, which she says is vital to put an end to what other experts have called ‘teaching children to be stupid’. Tutor, Eliza Abioye (PhD.) has written...
Romeo and Juliet added to National Theatre’s On Demand in Schools service
A new version of classic Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet for primary schools is the latest addition to the National Theatre’s On Demand in Schools service. Recorded during its popular run at the National Theatre earlier this year, this contemporary...
London Youth Rowing begins new mission to tackle inactivity in teenage girls
Building on Sport England’s ‘This Girl Can’ campaign, London Youth Rowing aim to get more girls across London moving this summer with ‘LYR Girls – Let’s Get Active’ The new Pilot Scheme, launching on 15 May 2017, will be part of the LYR Active...
YOUNG PEOPLE WARNED TO LIMIT TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN FEELING DOWN
Research shows social media amplifies good and bad feelings · 35% of people feeling low, felt worse when using social media Leading health and wellbeing charity, Central YMCA, is advising young people to limit their time on social...
GDPR: How education organisations should prepare for compliance
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new law relating to data protection, due to take effect on 25th May 2018. This may sound like the distant future; however, there are significant steps that need to be taken to ensure your teaching...
Radio DJ Lauren Laverne helps celebrate 25 years of BookTrust’s flagship programme Bookstart
Monday 22nd May – To celebrate 25 years of Bookstart, BookTrust has partnered with popular TV presenter and Radio DJ Lauren Laverne, who voices the interactive storybook, to bring this year’s National Bookstart Week title, Everybunny...
OFSTED IS COMING, BUT IS PRIMARY SCIENCE READY?
Sir Michael Wilshaw, Chief Inspector of Schools, has tasked inspectors with putting a sharp focus on Science over the coming years. As a result inspectors will look closely at Science and give it the same status as English and Maths. In 2014 only...
