Over 100 children and young people come into care, everyday, in the UK. When these children and young people are unable to stay with their birth families, foster carers are there, ready to provide…
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Action To Prevent Suicide
"Action To Prevent Suicide CIC Believes that Good Mental Health and Suicide Prevention can be supported by all"
Suicide Kills over 800,000 people every year it is…
Activity week at Tregoyd Mountain Riders
Provide your pupils with the opportunity to learn new skills including;
- learning to ride,
- caring for a pony,
- becoming more self-reliant and
- more…
Are you happy at work? Could your employer do more?
Three-quarters of education professionals say being happy at work is most important, but majority think their employer could do more
How supportive are you of your employees’…
Resource bank showcases careers in the creative sector
For students who wish to pursue a career in the creative industries, it can be difficult to see the relevance of studying subjects such as maths, English and science. So Leeds City Region…
Get free VE Day 75 resources for your assembly!
The Royal British Legion assembly plans will help schools across the UK commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day.
As the nation comes together to honour the Second…
Bringing outdoor learning and forest school training to the north west
More children in the north west are experiencing the benefits of the outdoors with new forest school and outdoor learning training for practitioners in the area. Branching Out Training, based at…
Parents uninformed of deadly school run risks, according to new research
Parents across the country are worryingly unaware of how the school run can threaten their children’s safety, according to the latest research from leading home-to-school travel provider Kura.…
Animal Farm named nation’s favourite school book
George Orwell’s Animal Farm has been voted the nation’s favourite ever school book in new research from Oxford Home Schooling.…
Top tips for keeping children safe online
By Mike Glanville, Director of Safeguarding Services at MyConcern.
As a former police officer with more than 35 years of high-…
Gateway Adventure school & team building
Gateway Adventure was created in 2007 and we will be shortly celebrating our 13th anniversary. We are passionate about the great outdoors and enthusiastically strive to convey this ethos to our…
Bradford school revamps reading areas in time for World Book Day
Shibden Head Primary Academy has overhauled its pupils reading areas ahead of World Book Day which is set to take place on…
Safeguarding absent children means giving them more ‘ways out’
By Lara Péchard, Head at St Margaret’s School in Hertfordshire
The importance of registration and attendance some say, has…
Get free science resources for British Science Week!
British Science Week takes place from 6-15 March 2020 and a well-known parenting blogger is launching a digital campaign to provide parents and teachers with free learning resources – raising…
How can we effectively close the disadvantage gap?
Sharon Davies is the CEO of Young Enterprise and a highly experienced youth worker. Having left home at 16, Sharon was working in a Kwik Save at 19 when she was spotted by a youth worker who…
Why writing by hand is still important
In a digital predominated world, it is no surprise that the art of writing with a pen has become so forgotten. With the ease of using typing and a range of devices, technology has replaced writing…
Teaching Online: Catering for children in a modern era
The internet has unravelled a whole host of opportunities for a wide range of sectors, enabling them to expand their offerings and take services to the next level. While the same can be said for…
Empowering teachers to make the most of their professional development plan
It is beneficial for teachers to have a professional development plan (PDP) and feel supported to achieve the goals that have been identified. A PDP is a documented record of an individual’s…
Encouraging Parents to Embrace the Concept of the School Trip
The concept of the school trip has changed over time. Once, a trip out of the classroom amounted to little more than a jaunt to the local museum, whereas today, the potential for taking youngsters…
How to build effective school interventions for Gen Z
Delivering school interventions for a generation of tech-savvy pupils calls for a new approach, says Nicola Hankey, teacher and SEND co-ordinator at Ludworth Primary School……