One of Plymouth’s oversubscribed secondary schools has joined the high-performing Thinking Schools Academy Trust. Plymouth High School for Girls and Thinking Schools have been in discussions and sharing practice in recent months, leading to the transfer of the school to the trust formally taking place today following approval by theContinue Reading

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Joe Biden’s election victory was greeted with cautious optimism by Chinese state media. However, while the English-language Global Times offered friendly greetings to the US president-elect, the daily tabloid paper – a stablemate of the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily – said that China must “keep vigilant and stick toContinue Reading

How to help your children with maths you don't understand

Flamingo Images/Shutterstock School closures have left many parents in charge of overseeing their children’s education at home. If you are one of them, you might be struggling with maths in particular – not least due to having to grapple with topics and techniques you are unfamiliar with, such as numberContinue Reading

Graph showing Portugal's COVID case rate climbing much higher than that of Spain or UK (detailed in previous paragraph).

Good news about COVID vaccines has been in abundance in the past few weeks. In the meantime, though, the pandemic continues to accelerate globally, with Europe accounting for 34% of new cases worldwide. One country in particular has been hit hard: Portugal. Looking at the last two weeks’ data, PortugalContinue Reading

How to tell if your dog is a genius

Canine genius. KristinaSh/Shutterstock.com Anyone who has lived with a dog will know their capacity for learning the meaning of words, even ones you don’t want them to know. How many times have you had to spell the words “walk” or “dinner” in the hope of avoiding an explosion of excitement?Continue Reading