Educational event

The NSPCC is encouraging schools across the UK to take part in their ‘Number Day’ on Friday 1st February, 2019. Number Day is a maths-inspired fundraising day for children in nursery right through to secondary school,with free downloadable activities suitable for all ages and abilities. Some of these fun curriculum-based …

School improvement and enhancing pupil outcomes is always at the top of your agenda, so we have made it ours. The Schools & Academies Show Birmingham, taking place on 21st November is the place to hear debate, the latest policies and excellent practice. Recently rebranded to encompass the entire schools …

Top hotels from across the country were on hand to offer advice to students starting their hospitality careers as concerns mount over the growing skills shortage facing the industry. The Careers Fair was organised by the University of Essex’s Edge Hotel School at their Colchester Campus where 32 prestigious hotels …

English language teaching tutors and trainees took part in a series of birthday parties this month, as Cambridge Assessment English celebrated the 30th birthday of its industry leading CELTA qualification. To show its appreciation to everyone who has championed the CELTA qualification over the past 30 years, Cambridge Assessment English …

In honour of the International Baccalaureate’s (IB) 50th anniversary this year, students from 153 countries, studying all four IB programmes came together and developed projects in an effort to tackle real-world problems in extraordinary ways. The initiative, coined #generationIB, gives students a platform to showcase their collaborative skills, innovative ideas …

The Creative Learning Guild, a charity based in Yorkshire which supports the grassroots creative learning movement across the UK, has announced today that nominations are open for the new National Creative Learning Awards. The new national Creative Learning Awards will celebrate the inspirational innovators, educators and practitioners who live and breathe …

The National Theatre is inviting primary schools looking for inspiration for their end of term play to take part in its Let’s Play programme. Let’s Play provides everything that teachers need to create an outstanding piece of theatre and inspire creative learning across the curriculum. Schools signed up to the …

A national education charity is calling on schools around the country to swap their desks for the outdoors on Thursday 1 November. Outdoor Classroom Day is returning this November – and this time promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Following a record 2,612 schools and nearly 350,000 …

Bestselling author James Patterson is to donate £50,000 to help schools fund books for classrooms and libraries. In collaboration with Scholastic UK Book Clubs, Patterson’s Big Book Giveaway will make over £25,000 available to schools and teachers in both the autumn and spring terms of this school year. 100 schools …

FIRST® LEGO® League, a global science and technology challenge, is now open to entry for teams of young people from across Cambridgeshire. This year’s theme is INTO ORBIT and teams of 9 – 16 year olds will be taken on an ‘out of this world’ experience as they explore space-themed …