Author: Samantha Lauren King

To mark National Careers Week, pupils at four Yorkshire schools worked with Burberry to explore career options in the fashion industry. During a series of one-day workshops, Caedmon College, Eskdale School, Graham School and George Pindar School pupils explored textiles and materials science, including printable electronics and augmented reality, as well as designing their own […]

An educational technologist and a head of sport have cycled 600 miles from Kent to Cumbria to raise money for Sport Relief and pupils at United Learning schools. Shaun Dowling and Bruce Wilson, both employees at the multi-academy trust, spent a week taking on the RideABC cycling challenge, which took them to 25 of the […]

Schools can get their hands on football kits and sporting equipment for free through a programme encouraging children to be more active in school. The Premier League Primary Stars Kit and Equipment scheme is offering primary schools in England a range of football-themed equipment, including pop-up goals, full football kits, footballs, cones, training bibs and […]

David Cameron has officially launched a specialist school’s new state-of-the-art building. St Piers School in Surrey, which educates more than 50 children with complex epilepsy and other neurological conditions, now has an immersive sensory learning area to help pupils develop their cognitive skills, and even a go-kart track. Pupils have moved into the new school […]

Seven ducklings have successfully hatched at Oasis Academy Byron in a school-wide lesson on life-cycles. The school obtained the eggs and equipment needed to hatch them from an egg supplier in time for its annual science week, giving pupils the chance to experience the hatching process first-hand. The eggs have been on display in the […]

A Bristol-based primary school has used World Book Day to raise awareness of LGBT issues by inviting drag queens to read to pupils. Parson Street Primary School hosted a performance group called Drag Queen Story Time, who read from books including 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewart and Olive the dog who was really a frog, […]

Pupils at a London primary school have been visited by an Olympic gold medallist as part of a scheme to inspire children to be more active. Joe Clarke, a slalom canoeist, visited Riversdale Primary School to discuss how he made history at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, when he won gold in the men’s K1 […]

A host of comedians including the likes of Stewart Lee and Jack Dee roasted the teaching profession at a fundraising event for the Education Support Partnership charity. An audience of 900 teachers and education professionals enjoyed a barrage of pedagogical ribaldry at ‘The funny thing about teaching’ earlier this week at London’s Union Chapel in […]