The Carer Friendly Tick Award – Education is designed to provide organisations with an emphasis on local and relevant standards which carers feel are necessary to ensure they are easily identified and properly supported within education. Schools can then build on these standards to work towards national models of best practice such as the ‘Young
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NEW! Morrisons Educational Virtual Tour
In the past, teachers and students have had the option to come into store for a tour around each department; learning about where different types of food come from, how products are made or grown, and get hands-on sampling various foods as well as learning some basic food prep and safe cooking. These tours offered
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Farmvention
Farmvention (when farming meets invention) is a national STEM competition run by NFU Education and aimed at children aged 5 – 14 (school years 1 -9) in England and Wales. This year, the challenge is all about the problems that climate change creates for British farmers and how they are fighting it to become Climate
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*NEW* TO THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS WEBSITE
Funded by The Body Shop, Women’s Aid have created The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit – which consists of one easy to use ‘Core’ lesson for each year group from reception to year 13 and is based on themes that have been found to be effective in tackling domestic abuse. All the tools and lessons can
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Natwest *NEW* Money Management Resources
Nat West Bank offers free resources, lesson plans and activities for students from KS1 through to KS5. Registration is required to access the lessons. They can also offer school visits, if requested. MoneySense has been awarded the Financial Education Quality Mark by Young Money. The programme is based on the Financial Education Planning Framework, and
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The National Schools Partnership Initiatives for 2020/21
Covering PSHE topics such as Oral Health, Hygiene Education, About You – the Partnership’s NEW Puberty, Wellbeing and Relationship programme aligns with the requirements of the RSE and Health Education curriculum. It also includes resources on money management entitled econoME: decisions matter which are accredited by the PSHE Association and Young Money. Schools can register
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PECT webinar: Food In Schools
With the renewed government drive to reduce obesity in relation to the Covid 19 pandemic and the introduction of the Health Education Curriculum from September 2020, PECT has produced a webinar to outline the provision which is available both locally and nationally to support schools embed a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. The webinar
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Farming STEMterprise
NFU Education provides both STEM teaching resources and projects for Key Stage 1 and 2 as well as Speakers for KS3 on key topics such as changing diets, climate change or animal welfare. The Farming STEMterprise toolkit includes projects that involve KS 1 and 2 pupils completing a range of cross-curricular tasks in order to
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