Author: Samantha Lauren King

An academy in Essex is using Twitter to develop pupils’ writing skills by getting them to tweet six-word and 50-word stories, known as “flash fiction”. New Rickstones academy launched the Twitter account “NRA_TwitLit” to give pupils the challenge of putting what they want to say into as few words as possible. Pupils will post poems […]

Two sixth-formers who went to the US to campaign for Hillary Clinton say their experiences have made them consider a career in politics. Bethan Atkinson and Adam Brammer, from Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews academy in Staffordshire, joined the presidential campaign as interns during its final two weeks. On the Clinton trail they attended numerous rallies, […]

Students and staff at Blackpool sixth form college have produced their own Christmas track to raise awareness of child poverty. Students and staff composed A Christmas Miracle, which will be sold on iTunes for 79p to raise money for The Children’s Society. Ten schools from across the Fylde coast of Lancashire took part in the […]

Education charity Teach First is now accepting applicants for its Teach First innovation award. The innovation award will give up to five social entrepreneurs a six-month, full-time salary of £15,000, allowing them to focus on their ideas to tackle educational inequality. The charity will also provide winners with 12 months of support, including technical training, […]

The renovation of a primary school roof was transformed into a community event when past and present students wrote personalised messages on its new roof tiles. More than 100 people turned up to sign a tile at Witney community primary school in Oxfordshire, including staff, parents and grandparents of pupils, who attended the school themselves […]

A school in Cambridge has commissioned an art installation in the form of a virtual cat to teach students about science and sustainability. Trumpington community college commissioned a team of digital artists to create Cinder, a mixed-reality architectural interface. She can change size and appears on a screen in the school’s main atrium, where she […]

An education charity that uses football to develop critical thinking and analysis skills put pupils to the test at a recent live debate. Football Beyond Borders (FBB) targets pupils who are underachieving at school and aims to use their interest in football to get them back on track academically. Pupils from years 6 to 10 […]

A leading dementia research charity is hoping to inspire the next generation of researchers through a new key stage 3 learning programme. Alzheimer’s Research UK has developed Brain Box, which aims to teach 11 to 14-year-olds more about how the brain works, how it’s affected by dementia, and what researchers are doing to tackle it. […]