One of the most detrimental periods in a child's life is the summer holiday. It is soon to be an issue that will impact many children in Britain, as schools will soon break up for summer; and learning will slip a dramatically. The summer learning loss is one that currently...

We may be living in a financial crisis riddled with debt, but if we learn from the mistakes that we have made, hopefully our children will not have to follow in out credit crunched footsteps. Who would have thought that pocket money, which is often predestined to be spent on...

Coding and children is a topic that seems to be gaining momentum lately. We teach our kids how an electric kettle works, what the inside of a plug looks like and how to set up an electrical circuit to light a bulb - why not teach them how computers work?...

You may have come across the term game based learning (GBL) before and while some snigger at the idea of video games offering anything other than the chance to breed violence and obesity, research shows that gaming and education are a match made in heaven.

It is important to...

Paul Woodward is the primary school head teacher that hit the headlines recently for speaking out against parents who allow their children to sign up to Facebook despite being underage. He estimates that at least 60% of the 270-plus children at his school in the Forest of Dean have access...