Back to school! A fearsome thought for teachers, children and parents. The start of a new academic year, new class, new school, new teaching resources. Welcome back, the educational games have just started.
If you’ve been anywhere near the shops over the summer you couldn’t fail to notice the constant “back to school” promotions. They seem […]

The flood of joy, tears and recrimination has emerged with the GCSE level results. This annual trauma generates a philosophical dilemma as we seem to fail to learn from previous results.
Targets and points appear as the driving force. Concern  that too many easy subjects are pursued to gain points that universities discount; that languages are […]

The assiduous onset of global warming, reducing oil stocks conspire to threaten the world that will ultimately pass to future generations to resolve. Our school children need teaching resources to be groomed on the significance of alternative energy sources, and receive our apologies for getting it so wrong.
The International Energy Agency projects that the world’s […]

August is a crazy month. The outcome of years of blood sweat and tears of schooling are revealed in the exam results that tumble through the letter box. But it’s not just the kids that are on the receiving end, teachers, schools and the entire educational system are judged by the verdict.
Our teaching resources, education […]

Over the past 15 years, we have raised the question, “Why do you use educational games?” to our clients and workshop participants. From their feedback we have constructed a list of the ten very best reasons for using learning games. We hope these 10 descriptions will remind and stimulate you to consider learning games as […]

The SAT’s are out along with the knives. If you listen to teachers, as I do, you hear frustration, concern and despair. These are the voices of the professionals at the sharp end dealing with systems and procedures that don’t have their full support. The teach to test syndrome is leaving children beached as they […]