We need to stop designing schools for teaching and start designing schools for learning.

RT @kkelseymichelle: These items are all under $15!!.Can we help clear any of them for .Ms. Kennett’s preschool classroom?#clearthelist #Te….

RT @MsHeld_4th: Who can help me #clearthelist? I have 36 items still left on my list and start school soon! I would be FOREVER grateful if….

Smartphone-free schools reveal ‘transformational’ impact of banning phones… read more at.

Thrilled to have been shortlisted for ‘Charity CEO of the Year’ in the ThirdSector Awards. Huge credit to my team at Parentkind… Successful CEOs are only successful because of great teams. This year we have won the ‘Fashion & Retail’ award with No Cold Child in the Business

62% of teachers and the majority of parents back shorter summer holidays according to our poll of 9000 teachers and 3000 parents. Read more in the Times today….

Great to see my Thunderer printed in the Times today… on the role of parents when schools teach sex ed….

Win up to £10,000 to support the wellbeing of the children in your school. To support young people's mental health Howden Insurance's education division is running a competition for schools to win up to £10,000 to provide funding for activities, equipment, kit, or space to

The Sunday Times Magazine leads with a BIG cover feature on the world of PTAs. These local parent led groups are pumping nearly £200 million a year back into schools yet unbelievably some schools still don’t have a PTA group and miss out on much needed extra cash. It’s time for

The Sunday Times Magazine leads with a BIG cover feature on the world of PTAs. These local parent led groups are pumping nearly £200 million a year back into schools yet unbelievably some schools still don’t have a PTA group and miss out on much needed extra cash. It’s time for

Does your school need £300,000? The UK’s top 4 state PTAs (by income) raised an incredible £1 MILLION between them during the past 12 months… with the most successful passing the £300k mark. They weren’t all in the wealthiest parts of the country and consisted of one

The twilight walk has been a powerful thing for my health. If you haven’t reached 10,000 steps by 9pm (which for me is after the children are in bed)… you have three hours to get there. Whether or not it’s at the gym, through the village, countryside, or even around the garden

SHORTLISTED AGAIN! What a campaign… ‘No Cold Child’, @Parentkind’s partnership with @FatFace which delivered 10,000 new winter coats to primary children living with poverty not only won the ‘Best Fashion & Retail’ Award, but was also ‘Highly Commended’ in the ‘Best response to

Does your school need £300,000? The UK’s top 4 state PTAs (by income) raised an incredible £1 MILLION between them during the past 12 months… with the most successful passing the £300k mark. They weren’t all in the wealthiest parts of the country and consisted of one

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Parents made FIVE MILLION complaints last year. Has there been a breakdown of trust between schools and parents?  . Our latest parent poll shows that parents made 5 million formal complaints about their child’s school in the last year. This is an area we hear a lot about and is a

RT @JasonElsom: Hard hitting….

RT @JasonElsom: Last winter we gave 10,000 winter coats like this one to children in poverty. Can you help us this winter? .

It’s never too late to reclaim your health and life. Personally, it took the shock of my wife’s life-threatening illness to help me realise how close we were to our youngest children being without both parents before they reached adulthood. Realising how fragile life is, I made