November 2016

Sir Lenny Henry, newly announced chancellor of Birmingham City University delivered a touching speech about the accessibility of education to everyone. Birmingham City University has one of the most diverse student body with 45% of its students coming from a low-income household and 48% are black, Asian or any other ethnic minority background. Sir Lenny […]

The worldwide biggest LEGO store at Leicester Square, London now contains a new machine: The LEGO Mosaic Maker. The principle behind this invention is easy: Children can take a picture in a photo booth at the store and the picture will immediately be built out of bricks within seconds. The children experience art in a

450 years ago John Shakespeare, the father of William Shakespeare war ordered to overpaint medieval painting by Henry VIII. Scientists, who have been working on restoring the church situated in Stratford-Upon-Avon discovered these art works last week. Henry VIII was known for abandoning religion from society and he was trying to destroy all art related

At the beginning of November a new portrait of her Majesty the queen painted by the Irish artist Colin Davidson was unveiled. The artist spent over a year on painting the monarch based on pictures and previous paintings. In an interview, he mentions his awareness of the weight and importance which comes along with the

Researchers from the American university of Vermont have examined 1700 books and found that all these books could be summarized using only 6 plots. These claims, however, came into question since the literature was not actually read by the experts, but analysed by a machine only looking at emotional language. Further, the novels examined were

Recently, a fingerprint as old as 7300 years has been found on a piece of pottery in Kuwait. Along this finding, an ancient temple and cemetery have also been discovered. Archaeologists emphasize that this is admittedly not the first incredibly old fingerprint found, but nevertheless contributes to the overall historically knowledge of human kind. If

 Register by 23rd November 2016. Students will sit the Common Entrance mock exams on Sunday 27th November 2016 at 2pm for Maths and English 7+ 11+ and the Academy’s annual scholarship award. Results are posted to parents within 5 working days.

71 teachers are travelling to Shanghai to obtain training in a new way of delivering Maths at primary school. The new system is supposed to help increase Maths proficiency amongst children below the age of 10. The teachers are going to be listening to a lecture about “immersion” teaching before going into Chinese schools and

A recent study conducted in Spain has shown positive effects of robots in schools. The machines were programmed to recognize the pupil’s emotions and then fine tune the material to their emotional states. Although students gave positive feedback, teachers do not have to fear for their jobs since the Spanish pupils still felt that they

On Tuesday, 8 November Howbridge Church of England School opened their gates to parents to spend the morning on Maths and introducing them to their new app. The application, called Times Table Rock Starts was created to help the students study at home and teaches all basic skills need for the subject. Hence, parents, teachers