Contact Group, BETT Finalist – ICT Company of the Year (£1m-10m) is celebrating its short listing in style by inviting visitors to its stand A250 to score a hole in one for their chance to win an iPad mini! But the good news doesn’t stop there – for your chance …
Read More »Wear your Christmas jumper on 12th December!
We’ll be sticking on our festive sweaters for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 12th December – and you can join in the fun too! Save the Children is asking people to make the world better with a sweater by wearing a Christmas jumper for the day …
Read More »Fiona Bruce goes “back to school” with Future First
BBC newsreader and Antiques Roadshow presenter Fiona Bruce has gone back to school as part of charity Future First’s national campaign to inform state students about the range of fulfilling careers they could pursue in the future. The presenter returned to her former school, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in Pepys Road, New …
Read More »There’s still time to register for our first webinar!
On Monday 13th October at 10h30, I’ll be kicking off a new series of webinars hosted by Education Today magazine, in which we will be talking to leaders and opinion formers from across the UK education spectrum. In Monday’s inaugural session, former deputy head Graham Cooper, who now heads up …
Read More »Charity helps schools gear up for Big Yellow Friday
Big Yellow Friday, the national awareness and fundraising day for Children’s Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF) has proved increasingly popular with schools over the past couple of years. Now the charity has put together a special online toolkit to make it as easy as possible for schools to join in the …
Read More »Firs School pupil qualifies for Grand Final of the Junior Language Challenge
A Cheshire school pupil has qualified for the Grand Final of the national Junior Language Challenge, which will take place at the Language Show in London on Friday 18 October 2014. Jennifer Stairmand attends The Firs School in Chester and began the language challenge by learning Italian online, followed by …
Read More »Schools to celebrate Fairtrade’s 20th birthday this autumn
Thousands of children in primary schools will be hosting the UK’s first Fairtrade Bakesale Party, to celebrate Fairtrade’s 20th birthday this autumn. The campaign has been launched by the Fairtrade Foundation, and aims to help children learn about global issues whilst raising money to increase the impact of Fairtrade. Using …
Read More »Into Film Festival 2014 unleashes the power of film
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 …
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