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Michelle Hicks: My dream job
May 18, 2017
We caught up with Chessington World of Adventures Resort to find out what it was like for Project Manager and Civil Engineer, Michelle Hicks, to work...
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Bringing The Gruffalo to life with ride designer Andy Porter
March 30, 2017
We caught up with Chessington World of Adventures Resort to find out what it was like for ride designer Andy Porter to create The Gruffalo River Ride...
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Q&A with Steve Backshall!
March 28, 2017
The judge for our National Young Writers’ Awards this year is none other than ‘Deadly 60’ author and presenter, Steve...
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Michelle Small: Why I love my job as a Roald Dahl Nurse
March 15, 2017
Michelle Small has been a Paediatric Epilepsy Specialist Nurse for Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity since 2011. In her guest...
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Fossil Finding Fun
February 8, 2017
We’ve partnered with TV presenter and scientist Ben Garrod to give our longest-standing members free tickets to his exciting new tour ‘So...
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Learning in action: hot spots
January 30, 2017
Chirag Golwala, Founder of Lets Travel Services, chatted to us about how getting out and about with your child provides opportunities for learning in...
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Exploring Write Size with inventor Ross Williams
November 29, 2016
We caught up with Write Size to find out what it was like for their inventor Ross Williams to present the products in the Dragons’ Den, and how...
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Let’s encourage every child to reach their full potential
November 21, 2016
Bambi Gardiner is the founder of Oaka Books, which creates printed and digital revision guides for dyslexic students and visual learners. We spoke to...
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The great outdoors for great learning
November 2, 2016
“If you want to get children of any age interested in the world around them, you have to get them outside!” Mike Ridealgh was a Geography...
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Encouraging children to think mathematically: the power of playing dumb
November 1, 2016
Jennie Pennant from GrowLearning has a great tip for encouraging children to think mathematically: playing dumb! She explains just how...
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