Little Green Button – the safety technology company behind an industry-leading panic button system – has reported a huge surge in enquiries from the education sector, as the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 nears and safety fears grow across UK schools. The Norfolk-based firm has reported a fivefold increase in enquiries from education…
Challenge: Modernise technology in 30+ schools without compromising budgets. Solution: By partnering with Axis Leasing and Siemens Financial Services, Greenwood is affordably enhancing their learning environment for pupils and staff Interactive screens are certainly not new to the classroom – but like a lot of IT kit, they need regular replacement and upgrades, so that…
Experience Education, one of the UK’s most trusted providers of school travel experiences, with more than 50 years’ expertise in educational travel, has unveiled a refreshed brand identity and a suite of new websites across its portfolio, bringing greater clarity, consistency and support to teachers planning trips that take learning beyond the classroom. More than…
Sevenoaks School and Leigh Academies Trust (LAT) have launched a ground-breaking partnership. ‘Ambition’, a unique four-year programme is designed to significantly enhance the life chances and career aspirations of ambitious students across five LAT academies. The programme welcomed its inaugural cohort of fifteen high-achieving Year 9 students on Monday 7th July 2025, at a successful…
Wates Construction, Kirklees Council, Wellspring Academy Trust and Joseph Norton Academy celebrate the start of construction for a new school in Huddersfield for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties. The multimillion investment will more than double the current school’s capacity, increasing places from 63 to 132 places for children aged 4 – 18….
The Chelmsford Learning Partnership (CLP) is commending its primary, secondary and sixth form students for a flurry of recent academic achievements and successes, with the trust reporting a significant rise in A Level, GCSE and SAT grades. Roding Valley High School, The Beaulieu Park School, The Boswells School and William de Ferrers highlighted impressive academic…
1st July 2025: More than 4,000 school leaders, policy influencers and education sector champions are expected to descend on Birmingham for two jam-packed days in November at this year’s Schools & Academies Show (SAAS). The show, which takes place at the NEC on 19th& 20th November 2025, will feature speakers providing advice on some…
Strengthening data-led safeguarding across schools and trusts, supporting earlier interventions and improved student wellbeing MAY 2025, UK — CPOMS, the UK’s leading provider of safeguarding software, has unveiled CPOMS Insight, a powerful new addition to its CPOMS StudentSafe platform. CPOMS Insight brings school-level data from multiple sites into a single, comprehensive reporting dashboard…
Hermitage Academy, a mixed secondary school in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, partnered with Progress Careers in 2022 to enhance their existing Careers Education, Information, Advice, and Guidance (CEIAG) provision. INITIAL CHALLENGES Before partnering with us, Hermitage Academy encountered several hurdles in offering effective career advice to their students. The primary challenges included limited time…
Unity Schools Partnership, a soon-to-be family of 33 secondary, primary, middle and special schools, has become IMP Software’s 300th MAT customer. The multi-academy trust (MAT), which is located mainly in Suffolk and also on the Essex and Cambridgeshire borders as well as Romford in East London, has purchased IMP Software’s purpose-built tools which provide…
In light of every-growing challenges and opportunities within the education sector, ongoing strikes and an impending General Election in 2024, we were delighted to see thousands of education leaders descend on the ExCeL in London to attend the Schools & Academies Show 2023, to meet, discuss and tackle current and future challenges faced by Schools,…
Lauren Wallace, Physics teacher and STEAM Lead from Bishopbriggs Academy, shares why she sees cross-disciplinary collaboration between Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths as an integral part of her students’ development As a sector, we’ve happily moved beyond the belief that Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts or Maths (STEAM) should sit isolated in a vacuum….
CTSN SCITT, which provides initial teacher training (ITT) to primary and secondary school trainees throughout Cambridgeshire, North Essex and West Suffolk, has been rated ‘Good’ – with ‘Outstanding’ leadership and management – in its newly-published Ofsted report. The School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) provider, which involves 86 partnership schools, was visited by an…
St Albert’s Primary School in Glasgow is championing inclusion through the creation of short storybooks that aim to challenge diversity of characters in children’s books. The project is tackling the lack of availability of suitable titles in children’s literature by writing, illustrating, and publishing their own stories. After doing a survey of the books…
It’s that time of year when minds in the Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) sector usually turn to the annual Budget Forecast Return Outturn (BFRO). BFRO is typically used by the Department for Education (DfE) to review the in-year position and expected outturn of the sector to ensure this financial data can be accurately…
The Schools & Academies Show and EdTech Summit took place last week (17th -20th November), for the first time ever as fully interactive virtual experiences. The new event format allowed attendees to peruse an online exhibition, visit the virtual Government Education Village; hosted by the Department for Education, tune-in to live panels discussions, take part…
