Features

Multi-use games areas uncomprimised

With space at a premium, making the most of any sports facility is essential. The Sports and Play Construction Association explain how multi-use game areas can meet the demand for versatile spaces, where multiple pitches are not necessarily available

Everyone loves a slice of Raspberry Pi

ICT

Launched in February 2012, more than 5 million Raspberry Pi units have been sold, but the diminuitive computers’ beginning was plagued by availability and distribution issues, and so the revolutionary device didn’t have a particularly smooth launch. Education Business takes a look at the latest developments in the world of the Raspberry Pi

A case study of effective practice in sport

Sports

The Youth Sport Trust provides an update on the Living for Sport programme, as Dean Watson of Rastrick High School details the benefits it had on the school and its students

Teaching safely in order to teach safety

Health and Safety

Nathan Davies, education principle consultant at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), writes about the importance of teaching health and safety in schools

Take a tablet to advance learning

ICT

Mobile devices can be used to create hands-on, immersive and transformative learning. The key is in giving teachers the knowledge and skills to introduce mobile devices into their classroom, advises Professor Steve Molyneux, CEO of the Tablet Academy

The information to stay financially viable

Finance

CIPFA’s Kerry Ace outlines the importance of a finance committee for an academy, and how it can prove an invaluable source of guidance for governing bodies when making financial decisions

Reflecting upon the academy movement

Academies

A week may be a long time in politics, but the decade and a half in which academies have existed seems to have constituted almost a full career, says Dame Kathryn August, chair of the IAA

Enjoying the energetic hum of solar panels

Energy

Big roofs and large energy usage make schools the perfect candidates for solar panels, but many do not have them. Friends of the Earth’s renewables campaigner Alasdair Cameron looks at what’s holding schools back, and how to overcome barriers

Blind them with science, so pupils can see the light

STEM

Physiology lecturer Tom Warrender discusses how to engage pupils in science subjects and looks at the many career options available in healthcare science that don’t necessarily require top grades

Play spaces for all abilities

Outdoor Learning

The design of any new playground or outdoor space must reflect the diversity of its pupils’ abilities and include equipment that not only stimulates physical activity but provides high-value
sensory experiences too. Michael Hoenigmann, chair of the Association of Play Industries, explains how to achieve this

Building the foundations of school football

Sports

Dan Bermingham Shaw from the Football Foundation provides a run-down on how its funding for sporting facilities works and how it can benefit schools, sport and the community

Celebrating technology enhanced learning

ICT

The Naace Impact Awards, which were announced on 26 March, recognise the schools and individuals that use technology to achieve the greatest possible impact on learners

Paying without cash

Business Management

Why, in today’s technology driven society, have all schools not gone completely cashless? Caroline Wright, director of the British Educational Suppliers Association, examines the situation

Rebuilding the school estate

Design and Build

With the Priority School Building Programme in full swing, Education Business looks at some of the schools that have opened, and reports on a new funding stream coming from Europe

Making our education system world-class

Training

Ian Bauckham of the Association of School and College Leaders explains the thinking behind the new headteacher standards and the role they play in the emerging school-led and self-improving system

Educating for the future

Energy

Teaching the next generations about climate change can feel overwhelming, but it needn’t be if teachers take a positive, solutions-based approach, advises CAT’s Kim Bryan

It’s not just what you eat but where you eat it

Catering

Welcoming dining areas are as important to school meal success as delicious and nutritious food. Jeremy Boardman of the Children’s Food Trust offers tips for making your canteen a lunchtime magnet for pupils

Outdoor learning at school and beyond