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

In March Town Hall the publisher Bird’s Nest books organised a workshop during half term for pupils to learn about storytelling, character design and comic styles. Everyone was impressed by the outstanding art work the children created in only three days showing that true art skills have quickly been adapted by the pupils. Comic art

Research conducted by University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience has recently shown that teenagers from the age of 13 find it easier to obtain Maths skills than the younger participants in the experiment. The experimenters found out that the acquisition of Mathematical knowledge is particularly easy at the age of 15. Nevertheless, verbal skills

In Trafford a local artist, Jenny Bent, has developed an art workshop for Syrian refugee children having seen all the horrible footage on TV. Miss Bent wanted to make an impact in the children’s lives since they already had a traumatic childhood and might be separated from parents, relatives and their hometown. To give them

After Ofsted inspectors have found books that romanticize domestic violence in an Islamic school they wrote a negative review of the school. In Ofsted’s opinion the school was promoting segregation of girls and boys leading to unlawful discrimination. However, the school fought back and appealed to the court of justice to get the review overruled.