Secondary schools

Children’s mental and emotional health and wellbeing issues and their links with educational outcomes are now more significant than ever. Palladian Academy Trust, a family of 11 schools based in the South West, understands the impact of this and has embarked upon a journey to becoming the UK’s first Thrive …

A secondary school promoting conservation in its community planted thousands of flowers and plants as part of a sustainability project. Following their incredible efforts in collecting more than 12,000 pieces of litter from beaches and parks during the summer, pupils from Ysgol Eirias in Colwyn Bay seeded more than 6,000 …

An innovative and timely new media literacy programme, aimed at equipping teachers with the necessary skills to support their students in identifying truthful, reliable, and trustworthy information online, has now launched. Created by media literacy charity, The Student View, and funded by the European Media and Information Fund (EMIF), and …

DLD College London is honouring the outstanding accomplishments of its students as they receive their GCSE results. Triumphant students obtained their results from the multi-award-winning school this morning, which revealed an impressive 84% pass rate with 25% graded 7-9. This represents an increase of 16% on the number of students …

Young people across England are celebrating exam results this morning – with thousands of them moving on to university, apprenticeships and the world of work. Overall, 79% of 18-year-old pupils in the UK receiving a decision today have gained a place at their first choice university. 16, 530 students who …

Schools are being warned to take precautions amid fears of a rise in crime over the summer holidays. As many schools across the country prepare to close their doors for the summer holidays, specialist insurer Ecclesiastical says schools will be an attractive target for criminals over the coming months. Ecclesiastical …

An ambitious project which will see a group of Year 9 pupils in Dudley build a fully working biplane has taken off thanks to a substantial STEM grant from the Millennium Point Trust. The 24 students from Dudley Academies Trust are working with the STEM High Fliers (SHF) charity to …

More than 323,000 young people started their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) in 2022/23, the charity’s annual statistics reveal – with participants giving a huge 3.5 million hours of volunteering in communities all over the UK. The record-breaking numbers, published today, show that 537,759 young people are currently working towards …

Every state school in England is to receive a cash boost, as primary and secondary schools are allocated extra funding for the next academic year. The additional cash is part of a £2 billion injection of new funding for schools – being made in both this year and next year …

Registration for the National Literacy Trust’s flagship secondary school conference, Changing Perspectives on Literacy, is now open. This impactful, industry-leading in-person event takes place in the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery, and follows the success of its inaugural 2022 national secondary school conference in Greater Manchester. With over a quarter of children …