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Avery, the world’s largest manufacturer of customisable labels, is giving schools nationwide the chance to trial a number of products from its Sticky Stuff for Schools range for free. As part of the Ambassador Schools initiative, teachers will be sent an assortment of resources, which they can use to transform …

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 …

As handwriting re-joins the national curriculum this year, Cambridge University Press has teamed up with SATIPS for this year’s National Schools’ Handwriting Competition. From 1 September 2014, school students in the UK from the age of six have been required to learn how to hand-write letters and other documents. From …

State schools are far less likely to ask former students for money than private schools, according to figures released recently. They could be missing out on £100m of untapped donations according to polling commissioned by the national charity Future First, which sets up alumni networks in state schools and colleges across Britain, and …

Following the launch by Bloomsbury earlier in 2014 of the Let’s do Mental Maths apps for ages 6-7 and 10-11, the full set for the primary range is now available. Designed to improve children’s confidence in maths whether they are working in class with a teacher or at home with …

Research suggests that nearly 70 % of children in the UK have had some kind of bullying experience – yet bullying is a sensitive and complex subject which can be difficult to talk about.  One way to tackle it is through the inclusive and accessible medium of film.  To tie …

Thanks to a £1m grant from The JJ Charitable Trust, The National Literacy Trust has today announced the launch of brand new school improvement programmes which take a revolutionary whole-school approach, aiming to improve secondary school attainment by changing school culture and embedding literacy throughout the curriculum. The National Literacy …

From January 2015, schools across the United Kingdom and Ireland will be able to perform their own productions of Disney’s award-winning musical The Lion King, when special versions of the show are released for licensing. These two versions, The Lion King KIDS and The Lion King JR will give pupils …

Our Sorority, a London based CIC (Community Interest Company), has today opened its doors to support and act as an advocate to empower young women and mothers aged 15-25 to progress into successful inspiring women. Mentoring the young women will be Alicia Barnes and Chantelle Fearon who both have a …

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 …