Children’s food and farming education initiative Kids Country have announced the launch of their annual Winter Warmer Soup Challenge, which this year will be judged by MasterChef 2018 finalist, Simon Spooner. Simon is an award-winning private chef who reached the top 10 of MasterChef in 2018 and now runs the …
Read More »TV presenters give their support to school trips
TV presenters and adventurers Paul Rose and Kate Humble have given their support to school visits as a generation of young people risk missing out on these experiences. Due to Covid19 restrictions, there has been a dramatic decrease in school groups undertaking educational visits. This is impacting on the educational …
Read More »Fife College streams lessons live so students don’t miss out
Fife College has brought in an innovative system to live stream lessons to students to make sure that they don’t miss out on their learning experience. The College is currently using a blended learning approach due to the Coronavirus, with some students carrying out their studies online. For subjects such …
Read More »TransUnion and Leeds United team up to teach teens about finance
TransUnion, one of the UK’s leading credit reference agencies, has teamed up with Premier League football club Leeds United to take its education programme – Credit Scores Explained – into schools. Focusing on being financially fit in preparation for adult life, the #KnowYourScore initiative will launch in Leeds, ahead of …
Read More »New multi-academy trust offers broadest range of secondary and sixth form options in Cambridgeshire
A new multi-academy trust, The Learning Alliance (TLA), has been officially launched with the merger of two existing successful trusts – Cambridgeshire Educational Trust (CET) and Morris Education Trust (MET). CET (which included Chesterton Community College and Downham Market Academy) and MET (which included Impington Village College, Impington International College …
Read More »Stockport student wins Rise Up 2020 for plantable chocolate wrapper that grows into flowers
Layla Assi (aged 16) from Stockport, Greater Manchester, studying at Southport College, Merseyside, has been named the winner of “Best Campaign” in advertising and digital skills competition, Rise Up 2020. Part of The Code from global advertising, marketing and digital agency, Dentsu, Rise Up 2020 challenged young people from diverse …
Read More »Local student wins prestigious national languages competition
Stratford Girl’s Grammar School student Kirsty Duncan has won the national Mother Tongue Other Tongue KS5 French competition for 2020. Mother Tongue Other Tongue is a national multilingual poetry competition that celebrates cultural diversity and the many languages currently spoken in schools across the UK. The competition aims to celebrate …
Read More »Leading EdTech companies join forces to create free online teaching masterclass
ClickView partners with Makematic, Adobe, iCivics and Participate to deliver much needed Teaching Online Masterclass (TOM), a free video course for educators full of practical strategies for online teaching As schools and colleges settle into the ‘new normal’ and return to classroom-based teaching for the first time in nearly six …
Read More »Education Select Committee Chair hails Ron Dearing UTC as flagship for future of learning
A leading education expert has hailed Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC) as a flagship school and praised staff for transforming the lives of students. Robert Halfon, Chair of the Education Select Committee and Conservative MP for Harlow in Essex, took time out from his Parliamentary roles to visit Hull’s …
Read More »A school with Performing Arts at its heart
Performing Arts is a creative thread that runs through the whole of Castle Newnham School, Bedford from year 1 to year 11. The importance of providing specialist performing arts works hand in hand at the school with the successful teaching of core academic subjects. They provide an additional platform for …
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