Medpac celebrates ten years of supplying emergency medicine bags
Medpac are practical bags specifically designed for carrying and storing prescription and emergency medicine in school, complete with photo identification. They are ideal for asthma inhalers, Epipens, epilepsy and diabetic medication and more. Medpac is the brainchild of Jayne Tarrant, a mum who saw a need for such a product when her own daughter was […]
History brought to life at The London Bridge Experience
Step down in to the vaults of the original London Bridge with The London Bridge Experience, an immersive walk-through experience featuring live actors who will take you on a journey to relive and meet all the characters from the past 2,000 years of its history. Travelling back in time to an age of adventure, guests will […]
Are you integrating PSHE and emotional wellbeing across your curriculum?
Be Ofsted ready with ZunTold publications and teaching guides. Available from Peters and other leading educational distributors. Face in the Mirror – A teaching manual to support students’ mental health, was published by ZunTold, a specialist publisher of texts supporting mental health and the PSHE curriculum. It contains 54 poems, collated around 11 themes of […]
The Safeguarding Community: For Everyone, Everywhere Involved in Safeguarding
The Safeguarding Company’s Head of Community Relations, Vikkey Chaffe, explains why she created The Safeguarding Community and the impact it will have for all those involved in safeguarding. Why is there such a need for our “Safeguarders” to connect with each other? Working in safeguarding can involve harrowing cases, demanding situations, challenging conversations, and upsetting […]
Aquaswitch helps schools save on their business water rates
The public accounts committee has recently warned that one in four secondary schools are in deficit and having to work through budget cuts. According to parliament’s spending watchdog, children’s education is being eroded by the financial pressure, with authority-run secondary schools among the worst hit. Schools on the lookout for pain-free ways of reducing overheads […]
Dr Anna Kennedy selected as autism Ambassador of the Year by IAOTP
The founder of a UK autism charity is celebrating being honoured by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP). Dr Anna Kennedy was recently selected as Top Autism Ambassador of the Year by the IAOTP. The award was for her outstanding leadership, dedication and contributions to autistic children, parents of autistic children, professionals, media and […]
Legionella in Schools: Key points for good water management
Starting with management policy; it’s important to identify a hierarchy of authority (communications pathway/organogram) for water hygiene management ensuring that those responsible are demonstrably competent to undertake their role. Doing so will help the organisation to suitably delineate between management and operational water hygiene responsibilities. Moreover, estates, facilities and/or caretaking staff will invariably accept responsibility for planned […]
Employability hit hardest by lockdown according to UK students
More than half (54%) of UK pupils aged 16-18 believe the COVID-19 pandemic caused greater disruption to their employable skills-based learning – such as data analysis and communication skills – than to their learning of academic subjects, leaving them less prepared to enter the workforce, according to a new survey from Tableau, the world’s leading […]
Blended Learning must be part of education’s ‘new normal’
By Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director of Education, Whizz Education In brief Blended learning is back, but faces a backlash for fear that online learning is diluting the quality of human-led instruction. The intention of blended learning is to exploit the best of online and offline instruction so that teachers are freed up to do […]