2020 – Teacher Absence

Make your classroom more festive this Christmas

11 December 2020 News, Primary, Students, Teachers

The last few days of school before the Christmas break can be an exciting time for young children, and many will start to lose focus as the last week of term approaches. For teachers it can be difficult to harness all that excitement and maintain your student’s concentration and willingness ...

New series of Educating Greater Manchester

12 November 2020 News, Primary, Secondary, Students, Teachers

The hugely popular Educating Greater Manchester has returned to television screens across the UK. It is the fifth series of the BAFTA award-winning British documentary Educating, broadcast on Channel 4. The documentary follows previous instalments in the Educating series including Educating Essex, Yorkshire, East End and Cardiff. The fifth series was ...

Footballer’s campaign to extend free school meals tops one million signatures

30 October 2020 Initiatives, News, Primary, Teachers

More than one million people have signed a petition from Marcus Rashford’s Child Food Poverty Taskforce calling on the government to extend the free school meals scheme. The online petition, titled “End child food poverty - no child should be going hungry”, was set up by the Manchester United forward on ...

Deputy head delivers dozens of school lunches a day

04 September 2020 News, Primary, Students, Teachers

A primary school teacher has been hailed a local hero for delivering food to children in need who are off school as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Zane Powles, a deputy head at Western Primary School in Grimsby has been commuting on foot to deliver 78 packed lunches each ...

Praise is better than punishment to make children behave

29 January 2020 News, Primary, Secondary, Students, Teachers

Teachers should focus on praising children for good behaviour rather than telling them off for being disruptive, according to a study. Pupils are more likely to focus in class and concentrate on their schoolwork if they are commended rather than reprimanded, according to research published in Educational Psychology. Researchers in North America ...

the local council cracking down on single-use plastics in its schools.

20 January 2020 Initiatives, News, Primary, Secondary

Schools in the Welsh county of Ceredigion are to stop using plastic milk bottles. The measure comes as part of the local councils plans to reduce it’s single-use plastic usage, with more than 400,000 plastic milk bottles used in the county’s schools every year. It is also looking to introduce non-polyester uniforms ...

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Make your classroom more festive this Christmas

New series of Educating Greater Manchester

Footballer’s campaign to extend free school meals tops one million signatures

Deputy head delivers dozens of school lunches a day

Praise is better than punishment to make children behave

the local council cracking down on single-use plastics in its schools.

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