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Thousands of children given a taste for the countryside at Food and Farming Day 2018
Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex. It featured over 300 exhibitors from 70
companies offering various activities across 14 learning zones, giving the children the opportunity to learn countryside skills; touch, taste, and make various foods; come face-to-face with livestock and working animals; visit a replica of an African village; and get a glimpse of the latest machinery and technology deployed on UK farms. Sandra Lauridsen, Education Manager for Kids
Over 5,000 primary school children attended the Food and Farming Day held at the East of England Showground in Peterborough on Friday 29 June. This was the sixth time the interactive event
had been held by the East of England Agricultural Society’s Kids Country education programme and was attended by pupils from 50 schools across
Country, said: “The feedback from both teachers and children has, once again, been fantastic. I hope they will now go on to talk to their families about what they have seen and heard, and the activities they have taken part in, and help raise awareness of the importance of farming and the countryside in all of our lives.”
The event also welcomed the 35,000th pupil to
have taken part in the East of England Agricultural Society’s Kids Country education programme. A certificate and voucher, kindly sponsored by
Nottcutts Garden Centre, was presented by The Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire Mrs Julie Spence OBE QPM to Fourfields Primary School Pupil Jessica Hawke who, along with her fellow pupils, accepted it on behalf of each child who has benefited from Kids Country over the last six years.
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Young people say skills learnt in PE will help with future careers
Children say PE is teaching them about far more than just sporting skills, with a survey of more than 6,500 pupils saying they believe what they learn in PE will improve their employment prospects. Throughout Youth Sport Trust’s National
School Sport Week (25 to 29 June), thousands of schools took part in activities to celebrate the role of play and sport in education, which has been supported by organisations including the FA, Entertainment One’s PJ Masks and the BBC and Premier League’s Super Movers. Children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust
(YST) also teamed up with Votes for Schools and Greenhouse Sports to prompt young
people to think about what they learn in PE. Hundreds of schools held class discussions
about what the subject teaches them. In an online survey of 6,540 pupils, carried out by Votes for Schools, 84% of primary school pupils said they thought what they learnt in PE would help them to get a job one day. 66% of secondary school students said they agreed. Researched published by YST earlier this year
found that 38% of secondary schools in England had reduced the amount of core curriculum PE on the timetable since 2012. In the charity’s new strategy, Believing in
Every Child’s Future, it sets out a call to transform physical education – protecting
curriculum time and putting it at the centre of wellbeing and achievement in education.
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Millennium Point provides new science funding for Sutton Coldfield grammar school The presentation was made by Judith
Armstrong, Chief Executive of Millennium Point, during a tour of the school which included the dedicated STEM block that opened in December 2016. The Trust, which mainly achieves its funding
A Sutton Coldfield grammar school – one of the oldest schools in the country – has received a grant to fund state-of the art science equipment and 3D technology. Birmingham’s Millennium Point Trust has
awarded more than £21,000 to the Design and Robotics Club at Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School for new robotics machinery and a 3D printer – plus their installation – which will be ready for use in September.
through the commercial activities of Millennium Point, Birmingham’s Eastside anchor building, gives grant support to organisations advancing science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in the West Midlands. Speaking at the school, Ms Armstrong praised
the faculty for providing such an excellent environment in which school pupils can learn and experiment. Brian Davies, Development Director at Bishop
Vesey, said, “Maths, chemistry and physics are some of our most popular A Level subjects, and many students go on to study STEM subjects at
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university. For an ambitious school like Bishop Vesey, this grant will really help us to support the huge demand for STEM resources. We hope our robotics club next year will go from strength to strength.”
uwww.millenniumpoint.org.uk July/August 2018
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