January 21, 2017 at 06:21PM A Wellingborough pupil has won a national competition to step into Willy Wonka’s shoes and come up with a new chocolate bar. Eight-year-old Alfie Richards from Irthlingborough junior school in Northamptonshire scooped the top prize in the key stage 2 category of Discovery Education’s “Sweet Inventions” competition, which marked the […]

January 21, 2017 at 04:36PM This is part 3 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series. I can remember having a conversation with a friend a few years ago about the value of memorisation and practice. I

January 21, 2017 at 01:20PM The first secondary school to use energy-saving Passivhaus design principles is set to be built for the Harris Federation in south London. Its design could help to reduce costs by 70 to 90 per cent “post-completion” compared with a normal school, Schools Week has learned. Eleven schools in England are

January 21, 2017 at 01:20PM Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Aldridge Education has appointed Brendan Loughran as executive principal of four of its schools in Darwen. He was founding principal at Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA), leading the academy from its inception to an Ofsted rating of good in 2013. Aldridge

January 21, 2017 at 01:20PM Separating pupils into those who qualify for free schools meals and those who don’t does little to highlight the more nuanced and complex picture in relation to attainment outcomes for different pupils, says Sameena Choudry. The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) research Ethnicity, Gender and Social Mobility, carried out in partnership

January 21, 2017 at 08:10AM Theresa May will move on Monday to reassure business leaders that they will not suffer skills shortages as a result of Brexit, when she places expansion of vocational education at the heart of a new proactive industrial strategy. Many businesses worry that the UK’s departure from the single market will

January 21, 2017 at 12:17AM An American school bus fitted with the latest in digital technology is about to tour the UK. The IDEAS Bus, which launched in November last year, provides demonstrations of the latest technology including virtual reality and 3D printers. It aims to enable educators to stay in touch with the latest

January 20, 2017 at 06:16PM An aspiring polyglot and an ambitious robotics developer are among 42 state school students who will attend some of America’s top universities over the summer. The Sutton Trust US Programme encourages academically talented British pupils from low and middle income families to consider studying at a university in America. The