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Ways into Shakespeare (Teacher CPD workshop / INSET Day)
Our hands-on workshop gives you the chance to experience a range of Shakespeare activities that both link in perfectly with Shakespeare in the curriculum and extend horizons. All of the activities are designed to enrich your students’ understanding of character, language, narrative and text. None of them require any resources – and they’ll all work, … Read More
Family Maths
Mathematical fun for all the family! Taking a experiential approach, our immersive Family Maths workshops uncover the meaning and importance of the three keystones of the Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving. “Students all enjoyed participating in the workshops, they found it fun and challenging. (They gained) Collaboration, problem solving, interpretation and an insight … Read More
World Book Day 2025 School Workshops – Primary & Secondary Schools – UK wide
Now booking for World Book Day 2025! our school workshops sell out well in advance so get in touch to reserve your date! Choose from an In-person workshop, live streamed session or resource package allowing teachers to deliver our popular Bookman workshop themselves! We will also be delivering our popular “Streaming Shakespeare” and Poetry Live … Read More
Whole-School Maths Workshop: The Benefactor – the Maths of Money
Whole-School Maths: The Benefactor – Money-based maths fun for up to 420 pupils in a single day! Eccentric millionaire Benny Factor has amassed a fortune over the last few years – and it’s now time to give something back to a village that’s very close to his heart: Amberton. The trouble is, though, that with … Read More
Enterprise Education – School Workshops
Our Big Enterprise Days allow us to provide a full day of workshops for up to 300 students from a single year group! The benefits of enterprise education aren’t just for would-be entrepreneurs and potential businesspeople – they’re for everyone, of any age. Because the transferable nature of such enterprise skills as resourcefulness, resilience and reflection means … Read More
Kick Start Grant Scheme for British Science Week – School Science Workshops – deadline 6th November
Apply now for a Kick Start grant and organise your own event during British Science Week 2024! Kick Start grants provide funds for schools in challenging circumstances to organise their own events as part of British Science Week. The deadline for Kick Start Grant applications is 6th November 2023. “I have enjoyed … Read More
British Science Week – The Connection – In-Person Whole-School Workshops
British Science Week provides the perfect opportunity to create a science “buzz” around the school and ignite a passion for all things scientific. And every year, we devise a whole-school programme specifically tied in to the given theme – allowing every class to join a shared experience, in age-differentiated ways. British Science Week will take … Read More
CSI: Reading Skills – A Creative Approach to Exploring, Practising and Developing reading skills
To be a young person in the 21st century is to read for pretty much every waking hour of the day – so those who tell us they don’t like “reading” are always amazed when they realise quite how much skilful reading they’ve accomplished by the end of this fun and busy workshop! “I was … Read More
Recovery Education – Covid 19 Catch Up Premium Funding – Workshops and Programmes
Primary Schools Many children are still struggling to re-engage with their learning after all the disruption they’ve suffered over the last eighteen months. Which is where our Catch Up programmes for primary schools come in! Fun and contextualised, yet packed full of curriculum content, they provide the perfect launchpad for reinvigorating pupils. We can help … Read More
World Book Day – Socially Distanced, Live and Digital Workshop Packages!
Our World Book Day workshops, activities, assemblies and author visits have been specially designed to help you and your pupils celebrate World Book Day 2020 by bringing your favourite books to life! “The visit was amazing, Jay (Bookman!) was a fabulous start to the day with his assembly, which really caught the kids’ imagination. I had … Read More
Case Study: The Bunker – Creative Maths Workshops
We know how important mathematical reasoning is – not just within the curriculum, but in real life too. So we set ourselves the challenge of designing a workshop that would give students of all ages a very different way of practising (and, crucially, extending) their reasoning skills. We discussed lots of potential approaches back at … Read More