Deeping St James CP School named East of England winner of ‘Premier League Writing Stars’ poetry competition

Premier League Writing Stars East of England Winners KS1

More than 25,000 primary school children across England and Wales have penned a poem for the second annual Premier League Writing Stars poetry competition. Themed on diversity, the competition encouraged five to eleven-year-olds to explore what makes us ‘Beautifully different, Wonderfully the Same’ using a poem created especially for Writing Stars by poet Joseph Coelho. … Read more

Garden education for your children

Gardening with children

It can be a task in itself to get your kids outside and away from all that technology indoors. But you don’t need to go far with them to have some fresh air — there are so many opportunities for fun and learning within your own back garden! Development in the early years For very … Read more

Free Resources for kids learning typing

Kids Learning Typing

Technology has come around and led to a lot of changes in the way things are done nowadays. Every child will get the basic knowledge of computer usage while at a primary school. Technology can be used to give that kid the edge over his or her age mates. These resources can be accessed online … Read more

Using Video Games to Instill Life Skills

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A lot of parents struggle with how to help their kids balance productive and “just for fun” hobbies. After all, the modern world is full of distractions that have the potential to adversely affect a child’s or teen’s development, social skills, and mental health. One of those myriad distractions that parents worry about is video … Read more

Back to school for mums and dads: The majority (62%) of parents want to learn coding to keep up with their kids

Learn coding

Despite half (50%) of children aged between five and ten learning to code at school, only one in five (20%) parents know how to, making most parents ill-equipped to help their children with tech homework, according to a new coding report released today by consumer robotics and AI company, Anki, makers of the UK’s best-selling toy … Read more

Peterborough STEM Festival 2018: Tickets Now Available!

Peterborough Stem Festival

Organisers Digital People would like to welcome the local community to the Peterborough STEM Festival 2018, to be held at Kingsgate Conference Centre Peterborough on Saturday 13th October from 9.30am until 4pm. Free tickets to the event, celebrating Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, are now available to order online at www.peterboroughstemfestival.co.uk. Following the success of last … Read more

How Online Learning is Empowering Mums…and everyone else!

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The rise in online learning is certainly something most people are aware off but there are still millions of people that may never choose to engage and even look into a course. It has done wonders for people from many different walks of life and could help even more. It has been a lifeline for … Read more

My Pet Pals FREE Summer Workshop at Pets at Home

My Pet Pals

The Summer holidays are now in full swing, the weather to date has been mostly brilliant. We enjoyed a lovely week away camping last week and spent lots of time relaxing on the beach. Being the UK though, the weather can’t always be guaranteed so it’s always good to have a couple of backup plans … Read more