Schools; Eco Friendly?
How eco-friendly are schools?
The environment and how to be more eco-friendly is something high on the agenda for many schools. It is of vital importance that students learn how to protect the world around them by reducing their footprint. This can also result in potential cost-saving benefits, which is always welcome news for the Business Managers amongst us!
"As former teachers, this is the partnership we've been waiting for!"
At PlanBee, everything we do is driven by two aims: to improve teaching and learning in schools and to make teachers' lives easier. That's why we're proud to partner with KCS — the first collaboration in our 11-year history.
I'm a former primary school teacher and now a manager and resource creator for PlanBee. To help explain what PlanBee is all about, and why we're excited to be working with KCS, I'd like to tell you a little bit about my teaching journey.
Frameworks for the Future
COVID-19 has impacted businesses and schools across the globe as we all adjust to the new normal – reports suggest that globally 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom as a direct impact of the pandemic (World Economic Forum)
Covid – Round Two
We were all bombarded with advice and directives on how we would bring our students back in these uncertain times and each school interpreted them in their own style.
Primary schools benefited from the ability to create ‘bubbles’ for their year groups, often having staggered drop off, pickups and break and lunch times.
Financial Education: Time to Get it Right
Delivering quality financial education could save millions of pounds of future debt and avoid heaps of misery.
Financial Education has been in the National Curriculum since 2014. However, as there are no specialist ‘financial education’ teachers in schools, delivery is piecemeal and teachers don’t feel qualified or even prepared to do the job.
Why does it matter that schools get it right?
Ten Reasons to Celebrate Teachers
The normal role of a teacher (if there ever was one) has been shaken and stirred. So in case you’ve forgotten - never forget that you (yes, you!) do a vital, essential, brilliant and important job, and deserve to be celebrated.
Teaching is rarely plain sailing, but this year has been something else. You’ve adapted, discovered new talents, worried, worked your socks off – had some highs, and a few wobbles. You’ve obeyed rigid rules and experienced crippling uncertainty. And all the time, felt deep concern for your pupils’ welfare and learning.
The Future of Learning: Good, Bad or Something In Between?
Speed of Change
Things are happening so fast! (Or are they?) Has lockdown simply forced us to recognise that learning doesn’t have to take place within bricks and mortar? Could online education become an effective tool? And is it a good idea to replace the classroom with the kitchen table?
What Staff Need
Following the difficult period that, dare I say it, we have all endured, the ways of working to which we have all become accustomed have changed, maybe irrevocably. Some of our processes and protocols have been the same since time immemorial and probably would never have changed without something as life-altering as our current situation.
Schools Open: Two weeks in Review
We are now well into the new phase for schools. All of our planning, risk assessing, signing and deep cleaning has been achieved and schools are starting to look much more ‘open for business’.
Prior to this, teachers have been busy providing remote working for their students with support staff working behind the scenes to enable schools to continue to operate and carrying out admin functions.
Permission to Pause! 5 teacher-tips to take the edge off stress.
Stress is great. Your body’s in-built stress response enables you to react brilliantly and deal with things in the short term. But just like a tap filling a bath – left on too long, there’s going to be a flood.
Your teaching day is demanding: planning, meetings, teaching, marking, discipline issues, sorting resources, parent consultations… to name a few. And let’s not forget your life beyond the job.