2011 March – Flying Start Education Magazine

Parents Get Full Facts About Every Secondary School as Schools’ Individual GCSE Results Published For The First Time

March 31, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Parents can from today see how every single secondary school in England performs in each GCSE subject - helping families choose the right school for their children. In recent years the main exam result information available has been the proportion achieving five A*-C GCSEs or equivalent, including English and maths. This year a new measure has been introduced, showing the percentage of children in a school who achieve the English Baccalaureate. And over 14 million "hidden” exam results have been opened up to the public so parents … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: GCSE Results published

Cheap Off-Peak Holiday Deals Leading to 40,000 Truants a Day, Say New Statistics

March 31, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Families unable to resist the lure of saving hundreds of pounds by travelling out of the school holiday season are fuelling record truancy rates, according to official figures. Almost 40,000 pupils a day are now being removed from school during term-time as parents take advantage of cheaper holiday deals. Mail Online Article by Kate Loveys: Read more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: family holidays, school holidays, truancy

Discover, Absorb and Inspire at TES Education North 2011

March 30, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Returning to Manchester Central this April, comes TES Education North 2011 (incorporation Early years and Primary Teaching and Special Needs North) with more exciting free practical workshops, feature areas and engaging CPD programme. Get some inspiration from our dynamic CPD sessions, designed to give you renewed energy and practical solutions. Explore innovative and creative teaching techniques, stay on top of policy changes, and learn to engage, motivate and inspire your pupils, across all stages of the curriculum. Over the two days, Manchester … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Special Educational Needs Tagged With: TES Education North 2011

Foxes appointing the gamekeeper? Not quite…

March 30, 2011 By Him Up North Leave a Comment

This week it’s all about recruitment in Education Land. My governing body and management team is interviewing for a new KS2 teacher. Sadly, due to work commitments I can’t be a part of it. I say sadly because I’ve done it before and enjoyed the responsibility. Having governors on recruitment panels gives, in my view, an important and valuable insight. It also reinforces the governing body’s accountability, having “some skin in the game”, as it were. Also taking part in this process at my school will be members of the school council. This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Management Tagged With: Him Up North (Author), recruitment, school councils, teachers

Story Catching – A Fairytale Way of Capturing Early Years Education Projects

March 22, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) is helping to share good practice and inject arts and creativity into early years education through its new Story Catching project in and out of school. Parents, carers and early years workers can be inspired to introduce new creative learning activities and ideas for 0-5 year olds through the range of early years projects collated by arts education charity CCE at www.creativitycultureeducation.org/our-programmes/story-catching. Story Catching is a way of capturing real life situations and bringing them … [Read more...]

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Ahs Ltd Supplies Free Playground Hardwood Chips to Local School

March 22, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Ahs ltd, UK’s premier supplier of bark and woodchip related products to the landscape and playground industries, have helped out a local school, by providing 36 cubic metres of free Hardwood Playground Chips to use in their outdoor play area. The school previously used a lighter grade bark as a surface for their play area, and whilst it worked for a while, it was not durable enough to cope with the needs of a school of energetic children. It soon became clear that a longer lasting playground surface solution was required to meet with their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Outdoors Tagged With: Playgrounds

Next Edition Coming Soon

March 21, 2011 By admin 2 Comments

The Flying Start Team are working on the production of the next edition of Flying Start Education Magazine. Jam-packed with tonnes of features, we are sure you will more than enjoy the read. Don't forget to use the social networking share buttons in this site to spread the word, and also check out our new Facebook page. We will be working on our social network pages soon, but in the meantime please follow @flyingstartedu on Twitter and also why not check out our sister publication, Flying Start Parenting which has been in circulation since 2003 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General News