Maths Doctor, an award-winning live online tutoring company, is pleased to announce its Schools Programme Christmas Prize Draw, giving 10 schools across the UK the chance to win up to 100 one-to-one Maths lessons, worth over £3000 to be used however they wish. Schools are invited to enter the prize …
Read More »“Writing matters” to Cambridge University Press during National Stationery Week
As tablets and laptops creep ever more into our homes, schools and workplaces, Cambridge University Press are teaming up with National Stationery Week and SATIPS to launch a handwriting competition proving that the stylus and the tablet can live side by side with pen and paper. The competition, which runs …
Read More »BIMA partners with VR specialist Visualise to bring Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland into over 100 schools
On 17 November, Ogilvy & Mather Group UK’s Vice Chairman, Rory Sutherland, will kick off BIMA’s Digital Day at one of the participating schools in London with a 20-minute presentation to students. Visualise will use its innovative 360° live video streaming technology to create a ‘virtual event’ bringing Sutherland into …
Read More »Free FUZE coding workshops for UK Schools
Calling all teachers and schools across the UK! From November 2015, FUZE Technologies Ltd is offering a limited number of FREE coding and electronics workshops for students aged seven to 18. The hour-long workshops, which must be booked by 31st December, will teach students essential computing skills, including hands-on coding …
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 »VSO backs ‘World’s Largest Lesson’ week
Volunteer Teachers from leading international development charity, VSO, will help communicate the UN’s new Global Goals to seven billion people over seven days. Lessons, which will promote aims such as ‘End Poverty’ and ‘Fight Inequality’, will take place in schools from Sunday 27th September following the official announcement of the …
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 …
Read More »Mayor’s £1.4m boost for mental health training to help young Londoners
Around 8,000 of London’s frontline professionals working with young people are being offered training in mental health support and safeguarding. The scheme aims to help young Londoners, particularly those affected by gang-related crime, thanks to £1.4m from the Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC). The Mental Health and Safeguarding …
Read More »Schools urged to sign up to Jeans for Genes Day this month
Jeans for Genes Day is celebrating its 20th year of fundraising for children with genetic disorders on Friday 18th September 2015, and this year a host of celebrities are backing the campaign including Kate Moss, Amanda Holden and SpongeBob Square Pants. Jeans for Genes Day is a fun and educational …
Read More »Giving teachers a chance to SHINE
The winners of the Let Teachers SHINE competition, run by the education charity SHINE, were announced at an awards presentation held last week at the Capita SIMS Annual Conference. Teachers across the country had the opportunity to win a grant worth up to £15,000 to develop their idea to support …
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