Author: Samantha Lauren King

A group of school projects commemorating World War One have been celebrated at an awards ceremony at the House of Lords. Among the projects on display were film documentaries, a poppy-planting intiative, and plays based on poems written during the Great War, all conceived and executed by secondary school pupils across England, following visits to […]

A Nottingham primary school has received a brand new science lab worth £2,500 from the Ogden Trust. The new Phiz Lab was funded entirely by the charity, and will allow students at Springbank Primary School to perform science experiments in what was an unused room. Fitted out with lab coats, goggles, test tubes and resources […]

Britain’s tallest man,has visited a Wiltshire primary school to teach pupils how to embrace their differences as part of anti-bullying week. Paul Sturgess, the 7’7’’ former Harlem Globetrotters star, originally from Loughborough, talked to students at Ashton Keynes Primary School about how he carved an international basketball career by embracing his unique height. This year’s […]

A school in London is using equine therapy to help students with ADHD, autism, behavioural issues and those lacking in confidence to build up their social skills. Whitefield School in north London began taking year 7, 8 and 9 students to spend time with horses at a specialist stable around two years ago, and found […]

A charity supporting people with facial disfigurements has released a set of resources to help teachers broach the topic in the classroom. These free, downloadable resources have been released by Changing Faces to coincide with the new film Wonder, which tells the story of a boy born with a craniofacial condition as he starts school. […]

A group of pupils from Harris Girls’ Academy in Bromley have paid a visit to NASA on a trip encouraging more girls to pursue STEM careers. The team of 28 travelled to Cape Canaveral in Florida, where they learned about the logistics of a space launch, climbed an anti-gravity wall and took a spin in […]

An international teacher training programme wants teachers to spend their Easter or summer holidays in west Africa next year. The programme, run by the charity Street Child, sends qualified UK teachers to Sierra Leone or Liberia for two weeks to help build the confidence of local teachers through workshops. Successful applicants will pay £145 per […]

Two year ten pupils attended a Jeremy Corbyn press conference and received careers advice from a BBC presenter while on a journalism work experience trip with Schools Week’s sister publication, FE Week. The students, from Southfields Academy in London, were shadowing journalists at the Association of Colleges national conference in Birmingham last week. Emilly Santos […]

Almost 3,000 school pupils have performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall as part of the annual Music for Youth Proms. The three-night event welcomed talented young performers from schools across the UK, with music ranging from acapella choirs, jazz bands, and full-scale orchestras to a six-piece alt-rock band. The pupils that took part in the […]