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Calls for Politics to be added to national curriculum, as APPG on Political Literacy meets for second time
An All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Political Literacy held its second meeting this month, as it continues to campaign for all young people to be politically literate by the time they finish secondary education. The second meeting of the group which launched in January, discussed the skills agenda and a cross-curricular approach to political literacy, including incorporating vital aspects of political and media literacy into current curriculums across all subjects and how to battle the skills gap the education system is leaving young people with. The group, which was organised and launched by political and media literacy platform Shout Out UK, met on the
afternoon of 13th May with the intention of leading conversations between young people, educators and politicians. The second meeting discussed the skills agenda and how a cross-curricular approach to political literacy could and
should be the norm within secondary schools, from the ability to interpret contextualised statistics in maths and science lessons, to honing analytic skills during humanities sessions. The APPG comes after it was found that a majority of young people agreed that there should be a formal GCSE
qualification in politics with only 13% of children disagreeing on the topic. Shout Out UK (SOUK) is a multi-award winning education platform and creative social enterprise. Fusing
education and tech with film production and animation ensures they create world-class programmes on Media & Political Literacy and high impact Democratic Engagement campaigns.
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Royal Navy and RAF team up with BAE Systems to help teachers
boost coding and robotics skills Teachers from non-selective state schools across Great Britain are being invited to apply for a free STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) educational programme, Coding Success, to help both educators and students develop confidence with coding and robotics in the classroom. Coding Success is fully funded by BAE Systems, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air
Bradford bursary student
secures place at Cambridge A teenager who says a whole world of learning opened up to her when she gained an assisted place at one of the best independent schools in the North is celebrating being offered a place at Cambridge University. Charlie Kelly joined Bradford Grammar School (BGS) in the Sixth
Form and was overjoyed to hear she could end up studying engineering at Cambridge, to pursue her dream of becoming an inventor. The 17-year-old grew up in Allerton, Bradford with her two older
sisters and mum, Sam, having lost her dad when she was only six years old. Charlie is studying maths, further maths, physics and chemistry A
Levels and wants one day to mix her academic skills with her passion for art. “I love art and science and I’d like an opportunity to mix the two. I
like having a final product that you can look at. Ultimately, I’d like to invent things. You only get one life and I think I’d really enjoy it. I’d love to make my family proud and for them to say: ‘Charlie made that.’” Charlie is the 19th student to be sponsored through the school by
Roger Bowers, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire.
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Force. The initiative, which has 600 places up for grabs for non-selective state schools, aims to help fuel the passion of young people aged between 8-14 and encourage the next generation of scientists, engineers and technicians through curriculum-linked lesson plans and resources. Developed in partnership with The Smallpeice Trust (an educational charity) and
Raising Robots (an authorised LEGO® Education partner), the programme will provide teachers with all the tools they need to inspire excitement in STEM. The course includes Teacher Training sessions, six engaging lesson plans and two LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime kits for children to gain practical experience with robotics and programming. Carrie Nicholson, Teacher at Norbreck Primary Academy, said: “Using the LEGO®
Education program to make something that actually physically moves that you can get hold of makes it so much more real, not just to the children but to me as a teacher. My confidence in doing this coding has just absolutely blossomed.” Owen Cooper, Teacher at Ormiston Venture Academy, said: “It’s great for
secondary students in Year 7 where we can introduce coding, and the Python for Year 9 and 10s - we can link it to their GCSE in a fun way. That will be a massive benefit and I’m really looking forward to that and being able to experiment.” Coding Success has 300 primary and 300 secondary school places available for
non-selective state schools around Great Britain. Places will be allocated against certain criteria to help ensure a good regional spread and encourage participation from a wide range of students. Participating schools will attend online training, deliver six lessons to 60 students and complete programme evaluations. Applications opened on Monday 26 April 2021 and will close on Friday 28
May 2021.
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