Year 3 pupil gains national recognition for chocolate bar invention
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...
Is all practice good?
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...
Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon by Rachel Reeves – review
Passivhaus schools claim to reduce energy costs by 80 per cent
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...
Movers & Shakers: Brendan Loughran, Raksha Pattni and Howard Jackson
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...
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