2010 September – Flying Start Education Magazine

School Celeb Chef Competition Extends

September 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Celebrity TV Chef Simon Rimmer has extended the deadline in his national School Cooks competition after more than 250 schools sign up for the national cooking challenge in just two months. School Cooks is a nationwide schools’ competition in association with www.eatthechef.com which equips students with the knowledge and skills to deal with a range of issues they face as they grow up. It culminates in April 2011 with a competition which could win their school £10,000 worth of cooking equipment. School Cooks will provide every school … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Nutrition and Catering Tagged With: Celebrity Chef, Competition, Eat The Chef

Vital Eating Disorder Support

September 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Can your school help raise awareness to Parents about the launch of this vital support service. National charity Care for the Family is launching the first UK telephone befriending service for parents of children with an eating disorder. Available from October 2010, the new service will be the first to offer parents one-to-one, ongoing support from trained ‘befrienders’ whohave themselves been through the experience of watching their own child struggle with an eating disorder. Care for the Family, whose aim is to strengthen family life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: For Parents Tagged With: Eating Disorders in Children

New term, new Classroom Kit on homelessness from Shelter

September 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

As the new term begins, housing charity Shelter launches new lesson plans on homelessness and bad housing for Key Stage One pupils as part of its popular interactive Classroom Kit. Shelter launched the classroom kit for seven to 14 year olds last year, and it proved so popular that the pack has now been extended to a younger audience. The kits are available to download free from the Shelter website today at: http://www.shelterclassroomkit.org.uk/index.php The new lesson plans aim to help teachers engage four to seven year olds with ideas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Teaching and Learning Tagged With: Shelter Classroom Kit

School Library Survey

September 21, 2010 By admin 1 Comment

There is a growing gap between the best services and those where resources and management support are failing, according to a CILIP School Libraries Group report earlier this year. The national survey of UK school libraries has just been completed, with detailed replies from 1,547 secondary, middle, special and independent schools and exhaustive activity reports from over 1,000 of these, supplemented by information from 655 primary schools. The report School Libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present – and a transformed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Management Tagged With: School Libraries

Do Schools Ignore Guidance on Affordability?

September 21, 2010 By admin 3 Comments

Schools are adding to recession-stressed parents’ financial woes by ignoring DCSF government guidance on keeping down the cost of school uniform, national charity Citizens Advice said recently. Too many are still insisting on uniform items that can only be bought from an exclusive supplier, instead of making sure parents can take advantage of cheaper deals widely available from supermarkets and high street chains. Some even compel parents to purchase items from the school itself – often at twice the price they might pay for the same clothing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: School Uniforms

Fire Safety in Schools

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Teachers urged to participate in National Fire Safety Awareness Campaign To help raise awareness of the dangers of fire and educate children about fire safety, The Fire Fighters Charity and the Communities and Local Government Fire Kills Campaign are continuing their quest to encourage primary schools s to work with their local Fire and Rescue Service during this year’s National Schools’ Fire Safety Week (4th-8th October 2010). Between 2007 and 2008, 16 children under the age of 11 were killed in fires in the UK, and a further 1,300 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Health and Safety Tagged With: Fire Fighters Charity, Fire Kills Campaign, Fire Safety, Fire Safety Week

Innovate Services Hits the Mark

September 21, 2010 By admin 1 Comment

Innovate Services Ltd, the innovative catering supplier to the education sector, has today announced it has achieved the ISO9001 and ISO14001 quality standards, in addition to being awarded the Bronze Food for Life catering mark. The ISO9001 quality standard certifies that formalised business processes are being applied across our business, and the ISO14001 demonstrates that a core set of standards have been used for designing and implementing an effective environmental management system. Whilst the Food for Life catering mark is a Soil Association … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition and Catering Tagged With: Catering, Food for Life, Innovative Services

Keep children safe on the internet with CYBERminder

September 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

A NEW device for ensuring children's safety when accessing the internet has been launched by Atlantic Surf Ltd. CYBERminder is a smart computer system that consists of two USB keys - a 'Supervise' key for parental use and a 'Protect' age-related key for the child. Giving parents peace-of-mind it allows children to use a PC to access the internet but prevents them from the dangers of visiting inappropriate websites. Stefan Lampinen, of Atlantic Surf Ltd, says: "Child internet protection is a vital issue. Parents want to safeguard their children … [Read more...]

Filed Under: IT Tagged With: Cyber Minder, Internet Security

Managing Health and Safety in Schools

September 21, 2010 By admin 2 Comments

Peter Cornall, Head of Leisure Safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) tells us how the effective management of health and safety in schools can appear to be a thorny problem. The education sector has singular challenges, not least of which is the presence of a relatively small number of employees compared with many non-employees, most of whom are children. Some laws are general in their nature - for example, the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Education (School Premises) Regulations 1999. Others relate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Health and Safety Tagged With: Health and Safety, RoSPA

Bolton College Chooses SonicWALL

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SonicWALL, Inc today announced that it has been chosen by Bolton College to upgrade its network security systems to coincide with the launch of a new £70 million high-tech campus in September. The recently launched SonicWALL E-class NSA E8500 will replace the existing Cisco PIX firewall and provide advanced security features including deep-packet inspection, gateway anti-virus and malware detection, bandwidth control and content filtering. Bolton College has over 400 members of staff and 15,000 enrolled students, spread over six campuses. While … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, IT Tagged With: Bolton College, IT, SonicWALL