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Mental Health Week Resources

Check out these useful resources from Mental Health Foundation to help support your schools activities based on this year’s theme of...

Cathy Layton

May 19, 20231 min read

Are you Mentally Fit?

Mental Health Awareness Week starts on Monday 15th May, one of the biggest mental health awareness events in the school or college...

Cathy Layton

May 15, 20232 min read

Bespoke SL Hubs - 15th May

Are you a science subject leader? Are you part of a SL hub that gives you new ideas and keeps you upto date with all thing’s science ?...

Cathy Layton

May 10, 20231 min read

Outdoor Classroom Day - 18th May

“Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. On two days of action each year, teachers...

Cathy Layton

May 8, 20231 min read

Misconceptions in Science – OFSTED Research Findings May 7th

This CPD session links to the Ofsted Research Review which highlights the importance of being able to spot children’s science...

Cathy Layton

May 5, 20231 min read

Bespoke SL Hubs - 4th & 15th May

Are you a science subject leader? Are you part of a SL hub that gives you new ideas and keeps you upto date with all thing’s science ?...

Cathy Layton

May 3, 20231 min read

Action for Happiness - Meaningful May

We can't control what happens around us, but we can choose how we respond. Join Action for Happiness for Meaningful May and focus on the...

Cathy Layton

May 1, 20231 min read

Hungry Birds

Nests are being built and new chicks make for busy birds out there looking for food. But what kind of food do each species of birds need?...

Cathy Layton

Apr 28, 20231 min read

BBC Wild Isles Interactive map

Pop the BBC’s Wild Isle Map up onto your class whiteboard and explore all it has to offer using either the species tab to discover...

Cathy Layton

Apr 27, 20231 min read

Whose baby is it?

Back to one of our favourite science starters – a story. One of our favourite authors is Julia Donaldson and this offering, linking to...

Cathy Layton

Apr 26, 20231 min read

Our Wild Isles

Using television programmes to engage children is a resource you may be used to using and there has to be no better resource than David...

Cathy Layton

Apr 25, 20231 min read

STEM person of the week resource

Take a look at this excellent site to support you in linking each science topic to a STEM career that may ignite a future geologist,...

Cathy Layton

Apr 24, 20231 min read

Upcoming Science CPD - Bespoke Subject Leader Hub

Jump onto one of these 2 hour sessions on the 3rd or 4th May to help support your role as a Science Subject Lead by keeping you up to...

Cathy Layton

Apr 21, 20231 min read

Celebrate Earth Day 2023

Earth Day is an annual event which in is held on 22nd April each year. The aim of Earth Day is to raise awareness of the environmental...

Cathy Layton

Apr 20, 20231 min read

Upcoming Science CPD - Ofsted Science Review

Impact of OFSTED Science Review 2nd May – Session 5: Misconceptions about Science and how to address them. This session links to the...

Cathy Layton

Apr 19, 20231 min read

Should we be incubating eggs in school?

Deciding to incubate chicken eggs in your classroom is a big responsibility and has many ethical issues whilst being an amazing...

Cathy Layton

Apr 18, 20232 min read

Funding available for Science CPD

Here are some of the courses Education Guru are running across the UK in 2023. There will be more to follow. Don't forget - depending on...

Cathy Layton

Apr 17, 20231 min read

Happy Easter

We will be taking a break over the Easter holidays but we will be available if anyone needs support. Just email...

Cathy Layton

Mar 31, 20231 min read

Egg-cellent Science Stories

At Education Guru we love to use stories to start off our science lessons. So here are a couple of suggestions for the Easter theme: The...

Cathy Layton

Mar 30, 20231 min read

Egg-citing Investigations - part 2

We've collected a number of investigations all linked to eggs to get you into the Easter mood, here is the second part of our collection:...

Cathy Layton

Mar 29, 20232 min read

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