In a political climate where politicians’ are pushing to increase class sizes, some schools are earning a gleaming reputation for pushing back against the norm and keeping classes small. We are in a time of flux with standardised tests, the debate as to whether the pressure from GCSE’s and SAT’s are too disruptive to pupil […]
Low Literacy Due To Overuse of Screen Time?…Health Secretary Prescribes An App For That. The independent reported today that the majority of parents would struggle to help a 7 year old with their homework according to a new study. The study by Oxford Home Schooling found that only a third of parents felt confident assisting […]
Jeremy Corbyn recently called out the Finnish education system as the one we should aim to emulate in this country. Michael Moore produced a documentary detailing the quality of Finland’s education system and media across the world have since been abound with details of the unique Finnish scholastic approach. With political leaders citing other countries […]
New data shows children born today will spend more time in ill health when they are older than our generation. Meanwhile new data from the office of national statistics has also shown that 65 and overs are seeing their life expectancy increase. Men aged 65 are averaging an increase in life expectancy of 32 weeks […]
This week sees several interesting news items surrounding kid’s health making the headlines. So rather than pick one out to write about we decided to bring you a news week breakdown focusing on kid’s health and education. So let’s get into it. Dentists Call For Sugar Free Schools. This week saw Dentists asking schools in […]
A film by Daniel Gordon has been released lauding one London Primary School for introducing a series of measures to combat the growing trend of poor mental health in children. [You can watch the video here] Highgate Primary School, has embraced several innovative measures to improve their pupils mental well-being, from dogs in the playground, […]
The same week the vast majority of teachers have moved against high stake primary school testing such as SAT’s via a ballot of members at the UK’s largest Education Union another news piece has surfaced indicating that the majority of Head teachers are against mandatory baseline testing of primary school children on entry to primary […]
BBC Panorama has reported that an Academy head ordered her staff to cheat on Sat’s tests. Suzanne Barham spoke to TV documentary Panorama and details how she was instructed to provide the answers to pupils that were struggling in the 11 year old test environment. “We were told to go and work with specific children […]
The Department of Education has launched a competition to develop early years “edtech” apps which will be designed to develop literacy, language and communication skills to kids. The winning apps will be offered to families for free in 12 underprivileged areas of the UK as part of a DfE pilot scheme. “We want to help […]
63 year old Timothy Moore a humanities teacher from Clacton Coastal Academy, in Essex has been dismissed for making inappropriate remarks to several female students including describing how he would “love to be in detention alone” with the three of them. The teaching Regulation Agency heard that Moore also engaged in unwelcome physical contact when […]
