Over five hundred schools have participated in a competition to find the UK’s best upcycling project as part of Waste Week 2017, which aims to raise awareness amongst school communities on the importance of reducing waste. The winning idea for a primary school, invented by Beaulieu Primary School in Jersey …
Read More »Royal Society launches primary school science experiments videos with Professor Brian Cox
The Royal Society has joined forces with Professor Brian Cox, the Society’s Professor of Public Engagement, to help primary school teachers across the UK to introduce creative experimental science lessons into their classrooms. A set of six videos and written resources – Brian Cox School Experiments – aimed at Key …
Read More »School children take control for this year’s BNF Healthy Eating Week
Across the UK, school children, universities and workplaces will be taking part in the British Nutrition Foundation’s (BNF) Healthy Eating Week 2017, from 12 – 16 June. With three months still to go, 7,500 organisations have already registered, representing a 10% increase on last year’s total. This year, the theme …
Read More »Free app launched to help children engage creatively with STEM
In 2015, to coincide with Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut aboard the International Space Station, the Unlimited Space Agency (UNSA) launched The Astro Science Challenge, a story-led series of interactive tasks designed to engage children aged 7-11 with STEM subjects. UNSA, whose mission is to inspire and help …
Read More »Introducing Wand.education™ – An Intuitive New Content Creation Platform That Enables Teachers to Create Better Lessons Faster
SIVECO Belgium Sprl announces Wand.education™, a web based content creation platform that enables teachers to develop interactive lessons in minutes, deliver engaging content across multiple devices and assess students’ performance. With Wand.education™ teachers can create dynamic presentations using pre-built templates such as galleries, mindmaps, flashcards, labels and many more. One …
Read More »Paintings at the Palace: free CPD using art for cross-curricular inspiration
Would you like to teach using paintings but feel you don’t have the tools? Or do you already enjoy it but want to do more? The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) is offering London teachers a unique opportunity to attend a twilight CPD session led by Royal Collection Trust’s education …
Read More »Oxford University Press to grow its teacher education range
Leading schools publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is to grow its teaching list with new titles from prominent thinkers in education, including assessment expert Daisy Christodoulou, Mathematics Mastery founder Helen Drury, and teaching method guru Geoff Petty. Responding to the call for more evidence-informed approaches to teaching, the titles will …
Read More »YPO celebrates Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday!
YPO, the UK’s largest publicly owned buying organisation, has joined hands with The Roald Dahl Literary Estate to sponsor the 100th birthday celebrations of the world’s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl. Ahead of the ‘Roald Dahl 100’ birthday celebrations on 13th September 2016, YPO has announced a splendiferous opportunity for a …
Read More »Two first class learning resources from The British Postal Museum & Archive
The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) is an educational charity, home to five centuries of British social, communications and design history. In order to bring the remarkable stories contained within its archive to life for school children across the country it has created two FREE first class interactive learning …
Read More »New English set texts added to Discovery Education Secondary service
Discovery Education has announced the addition of over 70 videos for set texts, novels set by an exam board, which students are asked to study for their English Literature GCSEs. These new learning tools were developed in response to the latest round of exam updates in September. “We are continuously …
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