The Princess Royal visited Taunton School to meet students and staff, and formally opened its new state-of-the-art dining room and kitchens. The Princess Royal was introduced to Headmaster Lee Glaser and Chief Operating Officer Nicola Miller, before speaking with the Head Boy and Girl from the Prep, Senior and International Schools. Her Royal Highness also met representatives from the School's...
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A Lower Sixth student at Tonbridge has become the school's latest recipient of the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship. James Watts was awarded the scholarship, which is given to 16-year-olds following a rigorous selection process. The scholarship aims to inspire and nurture school-age students to be the country’s future leaders in engineering and industry. Arkwright Scholarships also support...
A King's Ely student has been selected to represent the UK in an international mathematics competition. Eleanor MacGillivray is one of only six students from the UK who has been chosen to compete in the 2020 Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (BMO) – a 4.5 hour competition taking place in November. The BMO, now in its 37th year, was due to be held in Romania this year, however it will take place remotely...
Two Malvern St James Girls’ School pupils have won the prestigious Bristol ChemLabS Open Laboratories Competition. The competition, open to schools across the UK, involved small teams of Year 12 students interrogating the UK Air Data Archive produced by DEFRA (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). Their task was to investigate aspects of how air quality has been affected by the...
West Buckland has been recognised for the quality of its boarding provision and for its innovation. Shortlisted in the Independent School Awards for 'Boarding School of the Year 2020', the school was recognised for the high standard of boarding across all ages, together with its outstanding facilities in Sixth Form and for the wide-ranging activities available to boarders. In addition, Corporate...
Padworth College has a number of microscopes to the Wakiso Secondary School for the Deaf in Uganda. The initiative was organised by Project Le Monde and was made possible due to the generous support of Padworth Educational Trust. Project Le Monde helps improve access to education for children in Uganda, so they can go on to live successful and fulfilling lives. It fund-raises in the UK to...
A team at Tonbridge School has produced more than 2,500 protective masks in the fight against Covid-19. Led by the school’s DT Department, the mask-manufacturing operation has run virtually non-stop for the past month. The masks have been distributed to workers in various parts of the country, including those in hospitals, GP practices, assessment centres, care homes and even an opticians. The...
Staff and pupils at Bromsgrove School have produced face shields for frontline NHS staff. Peter Clague, Headmaster of Bromsgrove School, along with a small number of remaining boarders and residential staff who are living in one household within the School campus, are creating them to an approved design in the School’s DT department . Former pupil Cllr Aled Luckman collected the first batch of...
Teachers at Bruton School for Girls and Sunny Hill Prep have prepared an excellent online curriculum for its pupils. Staff have worked tirelessly to ensure the pupils’ education continues to be delivered with as little disruption as possible – teaching from their homes and even improvising with household items to create makeshift teaching tools. Learning from the short experience of remote...
Leighton Park School’s Head of Design & Technology has started an amazing initiative to help the NHS frontline tackle Covid-19. Mark Smith launched the project last Thursday (2nd April), with the idea of creating Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to support NHS workers facing coronavirus in their workplaces. Referring to the shortage of medical PPE, Mark said: “Not every superhero wears a...
West Buckland School’s Design and Technology Department has responded to the urgent need for PPE (personal protection equipment) for key workers in North Devon, by making plastic face masks using the school’s 3-D printer. In addition, the science departments at the school have donated safety goggles and glasses to local doctors surgeries in North Devon, and the school’s caterers have donated fruit...
Taunton School’s Head of Design & Technology has risen to the challenge to support the NHS by using school devices to make specialist PPE equipment. Having been made aware of the need to supply medical visors, Glyn Bough set the school 3D printers to work 24/7 making essential visor clip components. He has been working with manufacturers to determine design specifications, and once made they will...
The Dukes Education colleges – Cardiff Sixth Form College, Rochester Independent College and Earlscliffe - have launched new online prospectuses this week showcasing their online learning. Within a week, schools across the UK have been providing online lessons, videos, coursework and assessment and many, such as these Colleges, are teaching in real-time lessons across the curriculum. Cardiff Sixth...
Staff, parents and boys at Tonbridge School have been working with local businesses to supply protective masks to key workers in the NHS. A working party was set up to investigate whether these essential items could be produced urgently and efficiently at the school. The masks will be used by ‘frontline’ NHS staff, including those who will be manning the NHS Assessment Centre which has been set...
An ongoing relationship between the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), one of the largest hospitals in the country, and Trent College has recently enabled pupils to support front-line medical professionals by utilising their Design & Technology capabilities. Eye examinations require very close face to face proximity and expose both patients and doctors to high levels of risk of transmitting the...
Design and Technology teachers at Suffolk’s Royal Hospital School have joined the national effort to support the NHS staff by making protective face shields. Beverly Maloney and her husband have been 3D printing elements of the shield from their home whilst Ollie Millington is laser cutting a different design using polypropylene sheets and PVC. They intend to make over 200 in the next couple of weeks...
Felsted School has been embracing the new need for distance learning using both new and previously established online resources. The school was already an active user of Google for education and is currently using Google Classroom to deliver online lessons on the same school timetable for all students, with live video talks and messaging between students and staff to keep active communication...
Students at King's Ely have qualified for the national finals of the UK Team Maths Challenge. Junior pupils Yanki Ertem and Anna Ost, and Senior students John Lau and James MacGillivray, travelled to The King's School, Peterborough to compete in the regional finals of the competition earlier this month. Despite fierce competition from schools from across the region, the fantastic foursome won and...