Author: Samantha Lauren King

Professor Robert Winston, the renowned doctor and academic, has officially opened the Bohunt Education Trust’s first-ever sixth-form. The guest of honour revealed a commemorative plaque at the site in Hampshire, which opened in September last year, and cut a ribbon to mark the occasion. The TV presenter and author also gave a speech entitled ‘Why […]

A primary school teacher has organised a day to raise awareness about refugees involving 61 schools across Norfolk. Jake Brown, a year 4 class teacher at Avenue Junior School arranged the ‘Norfolk Welcomes’ event to help around 18,000 pupils in the area make sense of the refugee crisis. Schools across the region took part, hosting […]

Schools are being encouraged to get their pupils to share their pencils to raise awareness of the struggles faced by children in poverty accessing education. The annual Share a Pencil Day, which will take place on May 23, aims to help students understand the difficulties of learning with limited resources, by asking them to share […]

Twenty sixth-formers have been volunteering at a charity that supports young people with disabilities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds in London. The group, from Westminster’s DLD College London, spent time at Ambition Aspire Achieve’s Terence Brown Arc, a centre providing care and support to young people with disabilities and additional needs, and their families. During […]

A photography award has been set up by the Boarding Schools Association in memory of Khadija Saye, a rising star of the medium who died in the Grenfell Tower disaster. The Khadija Saye Photography Award will be presented to a pupil with an outstanding photography portfolio at a state or independent boarding school in membership […]

A new project is offering students the chance to take part in official research into the polar ice caps and their role in the Earth’s climate system. The project, called MELT (Monitoring our Environment, Learning for Tomorrow), was launched this week by the Institute for Research in Schools, and will see pupils calculate their carbon […]

Residents of Greater Manchester are being encouraged to donate a copy of their favourite childhood book, along with a note saying why they enjoyed it, to the region’s most disadvantaged pupils. The Gift of Books campaign, which is a partnership between the National Literacy Trust and Stockport-based business cartridgesave.co.uk, will send books to around 40,000 […]

The BBC has launched a new interactive game to help pupils identify “fake news”. Developed by Aardman, the animation studios behind Wallace and Gromit, the BBC iReporter game is aimed at 11- to 18-year-olds, and gives players the experience of being a journalist working on a breaking news story. The game aims to help young […]