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Classroom innovations at Poplar - Credit: Lansbury Lawrence Primary A showpiece school opened in Poplar for the 1951 Festival of Britain has been shortlisted for a national award 70 years on.  The Lansbury Lawrence Primary in Ricardo Street is one of just eight across the UK shortlisted for the 2021 Creative School of the Year title.  The shortlist is one of 16 categories of “the most outstanding education institutions” recognised for this year's TES Schools Awards, formerly Times Education Supplement. “The entries showed just how hard the pandemic was for schools,” TES e...

TGS students and staff celebrate being shortlisted for TES School Awards - Credit: Marcella Claxton A school which pledged to ensure students still enjoyed opportunities to use their creativity despite lockdown has been shortlisted for a national award. Thomas Gainsborough School, near Sudbury, has made it to the final eight in the Creative School of the Year category in the TES Awards. Assistant headteacher Ed Clark said: "We have always been very proud of the creative opportunities we have offered to students. “The last year has been challenging for us all, but we didn’t want the loc...

IN THIS week's School of the Week feature, we pay a visit to Castle Park Primary School in Caldicot.

Over €1million in funding announced for Kilkenny arts organisations Reporter: ');  '); Artists and arts organisations in Kilkenny will receive over €1million as Irish society recovers from the pandemic, the Arts Council said today. Kilkenny organisations to benefit include The Butler Gallery (€356,400), KCAT (€70,000), Kilkenny Arts Festival (€452,727), The Watergate Theatre (€97,000) and Young Irish Film Makers (€77,710). With its exchequer grant increased to €130 million, the government agency for funding and developing the arts said that while the sector was suffering dis...

Teachers and pupils in Adamstown NS recently launched their participation in the Creative Schools Initiative. They were delighted to welcome a special visitor to their school, their new creative friend Aileen Lambert, who was sent to them by Creative Schools to begin to look at what creative things they get up to and start to plan what they'd like to do. Aileen visited each classroom in the school and engaged everyone in a body percussion exercise which created the soundscape of a rainstorm in the classroom. She then posed the question 'What is Creativity?' and brainstormed a list of creativ...