Weymouth College has been awarded the prestigious Buttle UK Quality Mark in recognition of its commitment to young people in and leaving care. To receive its Quality Mark the College had to demonstrate that it has a robust strategy in place to ensure that students from a care background...
Matthew Hancock, Skills and Enterprise Minister has asked a small group of leading Early Years employers to develop new standards for apprenticeships and report to him by the summer. He said, “We want to see Apprenticeships become the new norm for all ambitious young people, and employers who are...
SBLAS- Shining Bright Like a star, would like to make a rather special announcement. They have been busy working away at looking for the perfect person to be a Patron for their school, and after a very quick decision, they would like to announce that Mark De Lisser, will be...
All UK state schools need to have an anti-bullying policy by law Individual schools are allowed to choose the type of policy they use but they must have a policy in place. Bullying is big business, with a large number of firms selling anti-bullying courses, workbooks and training schemes...
Pupils and staff from Poole Grammar school have shown their support to wildlife in Dorset by donating £660.84 to Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT’s) Urban Wildlink Appeal in support of DWT’s most ambitious conservation project, The Great Heath Living Landscape. A non-school uniform day was organised by student, Adam Hinks,...
A Stratford based educational consultancy has taken it upon itself to include within the narrative of a job advert for an English teacher the 'boast' that it has ‘lower' than the National Average for pupils with Special Needs and free school meals!' It then continues that the successful candidate will 'share a...
Purpose The government believes that the pupil premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it...
In less than two weeks, a report on Bournemouth University's arts-based model for change, the Big ReThink has gone viral with more than 2,275 views on the London School of Economics Impact of Social Science blog: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/08/16/bournemouths-big-rethink-project/. Averaging 100 views a day in just under 20 days, the...
The gangsters in Westminster have now brought in new 'rules' which do not allow children to be taken out of school during term time unless under "exceptional circumstances". Any absence will be classified as unauthorised and parents could be faced with yet another revenue gathering fine. Hang on, who...
Weymouth College was celebrating along with rest of the UK after Stonemasonry Apprentice Robert Broomsgrove won silver at WorldSkills Leipzig 2013, which took place from 2 – 7 July in Germany. This result confirms Robert as the UK’s best and the world’s second best, trainee stonemason. WorldSkills is the...
