Nicky Phillips | Schools Week

Jon Coles, group chief executive, United Learning Trust

Jon Coles is trying to walk in a straight line across a hill. He needs to get from one place at the hill’s base, to another, in the quickest time possible. Maths tells you that a straight line is the quickest way. But how do you walk in a straight line across a curved object? […]

George makes a big splash in Goole

Sixteen-year-old George Robinson has been recognised for his award-winning charity work by Conservative MP Andrew Percy. George, a sixth-former at Goole academy, east Yorkshire, began volunteering with the Goole Splashers swimming group for the disabled when he was 11. His work was first recognised last year in the champion volunteer category of the Diana Awards. […]

PUPIL PREMIUM: four ways to use the funding

A total of 140 secondary schools were last week named as key stage 4 finalists in the Pupil Premium Awards 2015. We talk to four of the them about the projects they have introduced to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged students Secondary schools that have shown effective ways of using their pupil premium money […]

Technically speaking, Mrs Morgan . . .

Corby Technical School pupils recently showed off their technical prowess to education secretary Nicky Morgan. They gave the minister an insight into everyday life at the free school as she watched a number of lessons and talked to them about their passion for technical subjects. Representatives from one of the school’s business links, engineering firm […]

Wacky water workshops win over pupils

A CBBC presenter showed water-based experiments to pupils at a Lancashire primary school last week after they won a national competition aimed at encouraging children to drink more water. Stefan Gates, who presents Gastronuts, held a “wacky water workshop” at Bolton by Bowland school. His water-based experiments, designed to educate children about the importance of […]

Edition 19: Andrew Cooper, Dr Rob Petrie and Stephanie Thomas

Andrew Cooper has been appointed the new chief executive for Barnfield academy trust as it separates from the original sponsor, Barnfield College, and becomes a standalone multi-academy trust of five schools. Mr Cooper, 46, joined last month after leading Lutterworth College, a 14 to 18 school in Leicestershire and the Sir Frank Whittle Studio School, […]

£2bn building bonanza: who gets what . .

Click here to see infographics Schools in the constituencies of Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs are the biggest winners in the latest release of funds for the Priority School Building Programme. Monday’s announcement of the schools that will benefit from the £2bn second wave of the programme has led to accusations that the government is […]

Solution? You haven’t got one, say unions

Teaching union leaders, teachers and politicians have lambasted Nick Clegg and Nicky Morgan’s solution to reduce teachers’ workload When they announced the results of the Workload Challenge last week, the deputy prime minister and education secretary shared a six-point plan that included a commitment not to introduce policy changes and Ofsted framework changes during the […]

Scheme soldiers on

Expanding a scheme that encourages former soldiers and other service personnel to train as teachers only “scratches the surface” of solving the recruitment crisis in schools. That’s the view of the Association of School and College Leaders after education secretary Nicky Morgan announced this week that the University of Brighton had been chosen to lead […]