Monthly news: May 2007
Issue 17, May 2007
Welcome to our seventeenth issue of education news! Every four weeks these pages will provide our pick of current news from the world of education, to help keep you up to speed with what's on in this dynamic and diverse sector.
We hope you enjoy this issue, but we also want to ensure that the news here is balanced and varied and that it meets your needs. Please contact the team at teach@psprarepublishing.co.uk if there's anything you would like to hear more about. Happy reading!
News stories
Since 2004, the Music Manifesto has been on a mission to provide every child in the country with the opportunity to explore their musical side, be that classical or R&B.
The Room 13 arts scheme, which was created for pupils at Caol and Inverlochy School in Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland to sell their own work to raise funds, has gone international.
Teenagers in football strips clashing on the streets of Glasgow, Olympic athletes and religious extremists - these are the Kings and courtiers of the next generation’s take on Shakespeare.
Features
Firefighters in Cumbria have received an award for helping hundreds of children improve their maths skills through a programme that demonstrates the importance of mathematics as part of their job.
As part of a BBC News School Report, pupils from Hurlingham and Chelsea School in London grilled Olympic 400-metre silver medallist Roger Black about his views about sport in schools. The students also benefited from daily coaching sessions with Black, whose experiences at the school were featured in a Radio 4 documentary, Roger Black’s Olympic Challenge.
School children are getting a head start with an introduction to creative chemistry at a unique facility based at the University of Liverpool's Department of Chemistry.
