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Nine thousand children will experience the exhilaration of watching fully-staged opera this autumn thanks to Performances for Schools on the 2014 Glyndebourne Tour. Glyndebourne Performances for Schools offer priority booking and reduced price tickets to schools to take their students to see an opera, often for the first time.  Since …

  For a school trip that’s educational, exciting, fun – and free – look no further than the Into Film Festival 2014, the world’s largest film festival for children and young people, taking place from to 4th to 21st November.  Harnessing the power of film to captivate young minds and bring learning to …

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 13th March 2015 and thousands of UK schools are on a mission to raise as much money as possible to help get children in Africa into education and learning. And this year’s campaign is set to be bigger than ever before because all …

Provisional results for this year’s A level and AS qualifications have been published today by the Joint Council for QualificationsCIC. Results remain relatively stable at a national level, with the proportion of A* grades awarded rising 0.6 percentage points to 8.2 per cent of all awards. There is a slight …

Temperance charity BNTL produces teaching resources for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 aimed at helping teachers to educate the children in their care about alcohol and drugs. The resources are neutral, relying on evidence and facts about the negative effects drugs have on the human body. In the past …

Walworth Academy was today the chosen venue for the UK Government and UNICEF to host the first ever Girl Summit, committed to ending female genital mutilation (FGM) and child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) within a generation. Speakers at the summit including the Home Secretary Theresa May and International Development …

Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School & Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College were announced as the winners of the fifth annual Childnet Film Competition at a private screening held at the BFI Southbank in London on 14th July.  Attending the screening along with industry guests such as …

Vivo and Mobento, two emerging players in the education technology sector have formed a strategic partnership to significantly boost student engagement and increase the breadth of multimedia content available to teachers and students in schools and colleges. The partnership will make video and audio content easier for teachers to find …

Portcullis Computer Security, information security specialist, has announced the launch of an ICT competition targeted at secondary schools within the London Borough of Hillingdon. The competition is aimed at reinforcing the government’s amended ICT syllabus for schools, and is based on the Raspberry Pi, a small, fully functional Linux-based PC …

A team from St Aloysius’ Catholic Junior School in Camden have become the winners of the British Land Kid’s Cricket Inclusive League Final, at the MCC Indoor Centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Seven teams from different London boroughs competed in a series of exciting matches on the Inclusive League Final’s …