Tom Rose and Jack Pannett are qualified teachers and sports coaches and run an activity business that helps children learn. They also broadcast their own podcast.
Here, they set out their five top tips on how to keep your kids engaged, learning, healthy and happy while schools are closed because...
Schools and keeping children at home
From tomorrow (Monday 23 March) our schools will only be open for those children that absolutely need to attend.
We appreciate that this will be hard for many families, as many parents work or have other caring responsibilities. We also know that school is such...
Lord Agnew’s cost-cutting consultants have advised a Dorset school and many others across the country to replace experienced teachers with support staff on term-time contract; to limit lunch portions for pupils; save money on supply teachers by instead using spare staff to cover three classes at a time in...
Another local school (following on from Atlantic Academy Portland consult about closure of early years provision) seeks to make staff redundant. It may be worth contacting your new councillors and MP to find out what is going on.
Leader of Dorset Council, Spencer Flower, has written to the Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds MP, asking for the Government to take urgent action to address the national crisis around for funding for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
The call comes after...
Today is International Women's Day
Today at 11.20 am, school students at Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester will be walking out in protest at the genocide in Gaza and in solidarity with Palestinian women.
The students will be marching to Shire Hall, to the memorial of Elizabeth Martha Brown, the last...
'The headteacher will be answerable to the CEO...' just about sums up the direction our education system is taking.
'Another school turning into a academy without parents knowing !!! Apparently there's already been a consultation where only a very small number attended. If parents knew they would've been there.' (Dorset...
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...
ESFA admits to redacting information about Aspirations Academy for fear of ‘damaging public confidence…’
Dorset Council are now voicing their own concerns.
Dorset Council’s second letter requesting that the Secretary of State agree to a delay in the forced academisation process of Budmouth College in Weymouth was made public this week.
Rt Hon...
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