Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Education

  • Innovative teacher Lucy Bate, of Delamere Academy in Tarporley, Cheshire, found a creative way of teaching her students their times tables. As a Key Stage 2 teacher she has been taking her classes outside and using a drone “to capture the imagination of her maths pupils.” The pupils learnt their times tables by arranging themselves…

  • Schools are predominantly set up to teach children born in different years. With twins and multiples, it can become a challenge to ensure their needs are considered and that they are included. This extends to how teachers and schools communicate with them and their parents, whether or not the siblings are taught in the same…

  • With many schools, teaching unions and teachers expressing concerns about how safe the classroom is – despite reassurance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), an article by Yvonne Williams in the Times Educational Supplement (TES), asks how many teachers have decided to quit their profession.

  • Mark Siswick, Executive Headteacher of Chesterton Primary School, in south London, and co-founder of the Wandle Learning Trust, was honoured for services to education in the New Year’s Honours list by being awarded an MBE. The Northern Echo writes: “During the pandemic, he helped to create a national home learning programme, filming more than 100…

  • UK Schools were closed to all but key worker children on 5th January 2021 in response to COVID-19 – and re-opened on 8th March 2021. As schools re-open, and teachers adjust to their post-covid teaching jobs, Reuters reveals that the British government has pledged a £700m support package to help primary and secondary schoolchildren to…

  • In November 2020 the media reported that OFSTED has found that the home learning experience has been at best patchy, and often failing to be aligned with the classroom curriculum. Remote learning increased in response to the Covid-19 pandemic when schools closed earlier in the year. Even since they opened in September 2020, digital home…

  • The University of Stirling Sports Team’s lockdown fitness programme has gone global. The university reveals: “Nearly 4000 participants have logged on to take part in virtual classes over the last 8 weeks – either live or pre-recorded. The people getting involved are from over 50 countries, including long-haul destinations such as New Zealand, the United…

  • An article in the Nursing Times illustrates that the pandemic isn’t the end of the world. On 20th May 2020, Steve Ford wrote: ‘Student nurse sets up social media tool to help during Covid-19 lockdown’. Noting that the pandemic is having a significant impact on people’s health and wellbeing, mental health nursing degree student Sophie…

  • … thanks to technology, online communities can be created to offer friendship, comfort, reassurance and positivity, especially as a problem shared is a problem halved. Beyond the gloom, it’s good to talk to like-minded others to brighten the day. Life is better when everyone shares their struggle, and communities and apps such as Leepse offer…