Academies

The Alliance for Learning Teaching School has been appointed to work with Star Academies to provide Mental Health First Aid training for staff across its 29 schools across the UK. Running from mid-January through to the end of March, the online training will deliver the sessions to over 100 personnel …

David Didau has been appointed the Senior Lead Practitioner for English by Ormiston Academies Trust to work with its team of lead practitioners, English curriculum leads, subject teachers and mentors, to develop the English curriculum and subject-based pedagogy for its schools and teacher training provider. Mr Didau, who sits on …

A Coventry academy has been shortlisted for a prestigious industry award in recognition of its successful apprenticeship programme. The Romero Catholic Academy, made up of seven primary schools and one secondary school based across the city, has been announced as a finalist for The Learning Awards’ ‘Apprenticeship Programme of the …

Children from Oldham-based Roundthorn Primary Academy and the wider community have supported local florist Eden in their shop window efforts to support The Royal British Legion in time for this year’s Remembrance Day celebrations. Pupils who attend the school’s lunchtime wellbeing club, an initiative set up by Pastoral Lead Miss …

A new multi-academy trust, The Learning Alliance (TLA), has been officially launched with the merger of two existing successful trusts – Cambridgeshire Educational Trust (CET) and Morris Education Trust (MET). CET (which included Chesterton Community College and Downham Market Academy) and MET (which included Impington Village College, Impington International College …

Schools from across England are being invited to sign up for free to the Institute of Physics’ (IOP) Improving Gender Balance national research trial.  The trial is seeking to reverse the trend for girls to drop physics after GCSE level irrespective of their aptitude in the subject. For the last …

Why over 400 schools want to work with us. www.hackneyservicesforschools.co.uk Who are Hackney Learning Trust? Set up in 2002, we were the first private, not-for-profit company in the UK to takeover and transform a council’s entire education function, and we are proud to say we did just that. Spurred on …

Schools from across England are being invited to sign up for free to the Institute of Physics’ (IOP) Improving Gender Balance national research trial.  The trial is seeking to reverse the trend for girls to drop physics after GCSE level irrespective of their aptitude in the subject. For the last …

Education Today recently caught up with the organisers of the Schools & Academies Show to find out more about the ethos driving the show, and what visitors can expect to see. Solutions for Education We are passionate about the education of children and young adults, and we want to create …

A new Teacher Training Centre has been opened by Chris Heaton-Harris MP at Guilsborough Academy which aims to address the national shortage of teachers. The building, which is located at the front of Guilsborough Academy, was created by converting an old caretaker’s house on the premises. The training centre now …