National Poop Scoop Week is all about raising awareness of a cleaner, safer environment. We want to remind dog owners in a fun and friendly way to Bag it and Bin it!

This year, we’re urging all schools across the country to put your ‘Paws up for Poop Scoop’!

If your school wants to help support our quest for a poop-free community, all you have to do is help fill our ‘Poopometer’ by pledging your support. Together we can show the nation that UK schools are all putting their ‘Paws up for Poop Scoop’!

Download and display our Playground Poster and send a photo to Dogs Trust and you will receive FREE t-shirts for your whole class. Plus there are classroom activity ideas too!

Go to www.poopscoopweek.co.uk to pledge your support.

Most, if not all, universities and higher education (HE) institutions now offer some form of undergraduate skills course or award. These run alongside students’ undergraduate courses and are designed to help students build and demonstrate the wider work skills they will need to successfully enter and thrive in the world of work. Leadership frequently forms one part of these courses and awards.

This HE Leadership Seminar is likely to be relevant to all university or HE students. It explores a simple but effective framework that will allow participants to develop, practice and reflect upon their own leadership capabilities now and in their future career. The goal is not to create fully formed leaders, but to help each participant realise their potential and demonstrate this to future employers in their applications and interviews.

The Seminar can standalone or can be offered to HE institutions, so it forms part of their wider undergraduate skills development programmes or award schemes.

The Seminar comprises two fast-paced sessions, lasting 1 hour or more each or a combined session lasting approximately 2 hours, that can be run consecutively or on different days. Each session blends simple theory with practical tasks and opportunities for reflection. Sessions should last 1 hour but can be extended to include more time for reflection and discussion.

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89% of adults, 78% of primary teachers and 70% of secondary teachers all agree that it is important to teach responsibility through learning how to care for pets. More adults thought it was important to teach younger children how to care for pets than it was to teach them about sex education and money management. Unfortunately the research among teachers revealed that caring for pets is not currently taught at 60% of primary and 85% of secondary schools.

We work with Dogs Trust, Cats Protection and Greyhounds in Need to develop curriculum support materials for teachers – helping them educate the pet owners of tomorrow on the rights of our pets and the responsibilities we have as owners for them. It’s something we’re passionate about and hope we can help make a difference.

EC staff and Army personnel will be available to talk about the curriculum support and resources on offer to schools and colleges.

Find out more about the NEW Employability Skills Workshops, and our FREE teaching resources to support Geography, PE, History, Citizenship and Assemblies.

We have entries from 31 schools and individuals, and received 121 entries from all over the country. 1st prize winner is Louise Howlett, aged 12 of Derby High School.

Visit the Out of Your Hands ? competition page to download Louise’s entry and display in in public areas of your building to remind people to keep their mobile phones PIN protected and safe – away from thieves.

Students are guided through an interactive journey of facts, fun activities and engaging presentations to discover more about Electric Vehicles and the positive environmental impact they provide.

Resources are available to download free from

http://www.nissan.co.uk/GB/en/vehicles/electric-vehicles/electric-vision/zero-emission.html#vehicles/electric-vehicles/electric-vision/zero-emission/partnerships/education-connections

And as part of their partnership with British Gas they are also available at www.generationgreen.co.uk 

The British Army have been supporting schools for over 15 years with the provision of a variety of free curriculum linked resources and activities. In 2011, The Army recognised the need to offer relevant, practical activities for students aged 14-19 with a focus on Employability Skills, something that as an organisation they are well positioned to deliver. The Army commissioned us to work with them to develop an offering that would address this need. The response from schools and colleges has been hugely positive and we are delighted that the efforts of not only our team who worked on the Workshop development have been recognised, but also the Army’s ongoing commitment to delivering quality resources and support for education.

EC are pleased to see that teachers are as keen as ever to keep their pupils safe during these short, dark days by using the many great activities on the 3MStreetwise site www.3mstreetwise.co.uk

Being Streetwise is important to everyone, especially children. You can use this website to help pupils wise-up on road safety and become Streetwise through exploration of three topic areas: Road safety, Science and Bright thinking for cyclists.

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focus on fun activities that deliver key messages around the ‘Five Freedoms’.

We have been working closely with charity Greyhounds in Need (GIN) to produce a range of educational materials to educate young people in Spain about the abandonment and cruelty of galgos (spanish greyhounds) after a working life. The educational materials have received fantastic reviews from teachers and the galgos seem to be fans too!

The photo attached to this article was taken by Saskia.

Read the full article here (page 135).

Sam, EC’s Account Director, recently visited Marbella with her family. Whilst there, she recognised the opportunity to promote GIN in the publication and sent through editorial content.

GIN is a UK based charity, working in Spain to raise awareness for galgos (Spanish greyhounds) who are often abandoned and mistreated after a working life.

www.greyhoundsinneed.co.uk

The resource enables students to build and deliver an assembly that explains to their school friends how our country has remembered soldiers who have lost their lives in conflict over the last 100 years.

The resource is available to download from Army in Education here.

Or to download via TES here.

3M Careerwise (www.3Mcareerwise.co.uk) is aimed primarily at students aged 11-14 – particularly those who are considering their choice of GCSE subjects.

The website uses a personal profile questionnaire to help the students focus on their interests and what motivates them, it then matches their results with a selection of short video interviews of the 3M employees that share similar characteristics.

Giving her support to the launch of the resource is broadcaster Maggie Philbin, who has long championed the importance of students choosing STEM subjects as a path to future careers –  “3M Careerwise is a great idea to get the students thinking about the types of careers out there and the qualifications they’ll need to pursue them.”

In 2009, we produced a plethora of educational resources  to support Spanish primary school teachers, who teach English as a foreign language to children aged 9 to 12 years old, across Years 4 to 6. The resources support the teaching and learning of English vocabulary and phrases relating to the expression of feelings and emotions, using images, data and a story based on how GIN help many galgos (Spanish greyhounds) which suffer from cruelty and abandonment.

EC have been working closely with GIN this year, to produce a CD-ROM containing these resources and some new fun games for pupils, which will be sent into Spanish schools at the end of 2011.

The CD-ROM gives teachers fun materials and activities, convenience and flexibility when teaching English to pupils, which we hope will extend the reach of GIN’s work in Spanish schools.

For more information about Greyhounds in Need, please visit: www.greyhoundsinneed.co.uk 

The campaign, which ran in July,  is all about raising awareness for a cleaner, safer environment and reminding dog owners in a fun and friendly way to Bag it and Bin it!

EC created the dedicated website to get schools involved, including classroom activities, which can still be seen here: www.poopscoopweek.co.uk