Dorset County Council has set out proposals in a paper going to Cabinet on 17 October for a redefined relationship between the council and schools and academies across Dorset.
The aim of the proposals is to bring about school improvement through the creation of a new Dorset School Improvement Board...
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In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines?
Children learn best when teaching aligns with their natural exuberance, energy and curiosity. So why are they dragooned...
Talbot Village Trust has presented Linwood School with more than £34,000 to create an outdoor learning area for its pupils. Linwood School is a day special school for children and young people aged 3-19 who have a comprehensive range of special educational needs and disabilities. The donation from the...
‘We take a ten-year span, ’says Colonel David Allfrey, head of army recruitment strategy. ‘It starts with a seven-year-old boy seeing a parachutist at an air show and thinking, ‘That looks great.’ From then on the army is trying to build interest by drip, drip, drip.’
Promoting the Military in...
Your school is about to face dramatic cuts. Cuts to teaching staff; cuts to resources; cuts to opportunities. Whoever you vote for put that aside for a moment. We were told early on by this government that the next generation should not pay for the failings of the one...
The BSO’s popular Schools’ Concerts are back for another year with the exciting new theme of ‘Secrets and Codes’. As part of the BSO’s Blast programme, these interactive concerts will introduce classical music and the orchestra to Key Stage 2 children in the most immersive and imaginative way, featuring mystical...
“Having visited several schools in Shanghai last week- I feel we have plenty to learn from the Chinese, but without any need to feel in awe of their education system or to suffer from any inferiority complex. In fact, I found English education is held in very high esteem,” Thomas Hardye School Head...
Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership has signed a £100k grant agreement with the Careers & Enterprise Company to deliver an ‘Enterprise Adviser Network’ for 40 schools and colleges across Dorset. The Enterprise Adviser Network inspires and motivates young people about potential career choices and supports them to make informed choices about their future. 40...
