A Cardiff teacher has become one of the first in the country to complete an innovative training course run by the British Council. The programme aims to create the next generation of well-rounded and truly global citizens among the UK’s young people.   The programme, called Connecting Classrooms, has been completed by Sarah-Jane Maples, who works as the Leader for Social and Cultural Learning and International Coordinator at Llandaff City Church of Wales Primary School in Cardiff. The aim of…

A Cardiff school is celebrating after achieving a top award for health and wellbeing.   Ysgol Gymraeg Pwll Coch, has achieved its National Quality Award, the highest award a school can obtain through the Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes.   In order to achieve the National Quality Award the school had to demonstrate the highest standard in all of the indicators across seven health topics.   Managed by Public Health Wales, the scheme embeds health improvement around food and…

Sustrans Cymru is calling for the next Welsh Government to transform the way children travel to school. On the day the Children’s Commissioner launches a report showing that almost half (48%) of primary school children in Wales would like more help to be able to walk, cycle and scoot to school, the charity is calling on all the Welsh political parties to pledge their support to an ambitious programme to help make our children happier and healthier. We want to…

Wales’ largest building society, a Cardiff college and a local restaurant run by two former MasterChef finalists have teamed up for a unique culinary venture to raise money for charity. Principality Building Society, Cardiff and Vale College and Hokkei have joined forces to put on Hokkei in the Classroom, an evening of festive fun and innovative Asian cooking all in aid of mental health charity Mind Cymru, Principality’s Charity of the Year. Using fresh, locally sourced ingredients, students from CAVC…

A new survey commissioned by ProVen Probiotics has highlighted the effect of children’s coughs and colds on school attendance and has shown that GP’s still commonly prescribe antibiotics to children with colds. The recent 2015 nationwide survey of 1,000 parents of primary school age children has revealed that two thirds of children take days off school every year, due to the common cold, and that more than 50% of those who went to the doctor with cough and cold symptoms…

Getting children across the UK and Ireland writing, with over £14,000 worth of prizes   Recognising the importance of handwriting in children’s development, BIC has unveiled the very first Handwriting Olympiad. Launched in partnership with Start-Bee, which helps children to write effortlessly and enjoyably, the competition aims to get primary school children writing simply by asking them to complete the sentence, “I love being able to write because…”.   Hosted on the Teachers’ Corner section of the recently developed BIC®…

Back in October 2009 The Girl’s nursery teacher told me that the school’s Headmistress wanted to see The Boss and me at 1100 hours on the next Friday. My instinctive reaction was one of dread. It reminded me of those occasions during my education when I had been told to stand outside the Headmaster’s door… The Grammar school’s Head, ‘Barrel’, looked as you’d expect a man with that nick-name to look: very round, with an unruly shock of white hair…