Author: Samantha Lauren King

Schools are being encouraged to share photos of their pupils staying safe in the sun for the chance to win £5,000 to spend on school trips. The Sun Ready Photo Challenge, run by Boots, is encouraging schools to share photos of their students wearing sunglasses, summer hats or doused in sun cream to win the […]

A top-ranking chess player has been coaching pupils at a Surrey independent school. Nick Pert, once an under-18 world champion and now a grandmaster, has been visiting members of King Edward’s Witley’s extracurricular chess club once a week to advise on tactics and how to anticipate the plans of your opponent. Currently ranked as one […]

A Bristol school is helping students clear their heads before choosing their GCSE options by taking them on 24-hour camping trips. Pupils in year 9 at Bedminster Down School are eligible to take part in the Challenge 24 trip, which involves an expedition to Dartmoor to help develop teamwork, problem solving and communication skills, as well […]

A film exposing the dark side of the cotton industry has been released by the Fairtrade Foundation for use in schools. The 12-minute video explores the lives of cotton farmers and garment workers in India, who despite working long days can barely afford food. The film also looks at the Rana Plaza clothing factory collapse […]

A primary school has celebrated its 50th anniversary by getting pupils engaged with local history. To mark Burton End Primary Academy’s golden jubilee, the school hosted a fancy-dress day, with each year group given a decade to focus on, starting from the 1960s. Lessons were focussed on the shifts in lifestyle, culture and technology since the […]

Pupils across the West Midlands have taken part in a competition to name eight new riot vans in their local police force’s fleet. ‘Optimus Crime’, ‘Copzilla’, ‘Zeus’, ‘Proud to Protect’, ‘Kit’ and ‘Jupiter’ were six of the winning name suggestions from local primary school children, which will now be displayed on the flanks of West […]

Students at an Essex secondary school have raised over £4,000 to help refurbish an orphanage in Greece. Over the course of three years, students at Forest Hall School have been hosting fundraising activities such as non-uniform days, fashion shows, cake sales, sponsored sports events, car washing and school fayres to raise money for much-needed refurbishment […]

A multi-academy trust has hosted a day of wellbeing activities for more than 700 members of its staff. The Shaw Education Trust hosted its first-ever whole-trust event at Wolstanton High School, where staff from all 11 of its member academies gathered to take part in activities including crystal healing, cake decorating, massage, dance classes, football […]

Transport for London has launched a competition in London schools to help tackle gender inequality. Children will be asked to draw a picture or write a story about the women that work behind the scenes in the transport industry to tie in with the Mayor of London’s #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign, championing the work of women who […]