Educational event

The Hour of Code today launched with a Downing Street event hosted by the Prime Minster, David Cameron, and 50 school children who each took their first steps in learning to code. With over 1,000 primary and secondary schools already signed up, the campaign aims to reach 6 million people …

Contact Group, BETT Finalist – ICT Company of the Year (£1m-10m) is celebrating its short listing in style by inviting visitors to its stand A250 to score a hole in one for their chance to win an iPad mini!  But the good news doesn’t stop there – for your chance …

We’ll be sticking on our festive sweaters for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 12th December – and you can join in the fun too!   Save the Children is asking people to make the world better with a sweater by wearing a Christmas jumper for the day …

BBC newsreader and Antiques Roadshow presenter Fiona Bruce has gone back to school as part of charity Future First’s national campaign to inform state students about the range of fulfilling careers they could pursue in the future. The presenter returned to her former school, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in Pepys Road, New …

On Monday 13th October at 10h30, I’ll be kicking off a new series of webinars hosted by Education Today magazine, in which we will be talking to leaders and opinion formers from across the UK education spectrum. In Monday’s inaugural session, former deputy head Graham Cooper, who now heads up …

Big Yellow Friday, the national awareness and fundraising day for Children’s Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF) has proved increasingly popular with schools over the past couple of years. Now the charity has put together a special online toolkit to make it as easy as possible for schools to join in the …

A Cheshire school pupil has qualified for the Grand Final of the national Junior Language Challenge, which will take place at the Language Show in London on Friday 18 October 2014. Jennifer Stairmand attends The Firs School in Chester and began the language challenge by learning Italian online, followed by …

Thousands of children in primary schools will be hosting the UK’s first Fairtrade Bakesale Party, to celebrate Fairtrade’s 20th birthday this autumn. The campaign has been launched by the Fairtrade Foundation, and aims to help children learn about global issues whilst raising money to increase the impact of Fairtrade. Using …

  For a school trip that’s educational, exciting, fun – and free – look no further than the Into Film Festival 2014, the world’s largest film festival for children and young people, taking place from to 4th to 21st November.  Harnessing the power of film to captivate young minds and bring learning to …