Inspiring students through TEDx and Unlock

1/18/2015 12:00:00 AM

We are so pleased to have had such great reviews from our work on Unlock where several cohorts and schools are now entering the real 'doing' phase. Mar...

Happy New Year

1/3/2015 12:00:00 AM

We wish all of our clients and friends a great start to 2015. We are currently woking on a number of Unlock Programmes, Immersion Days and INSET sessio...

Festive Greetings!

12/22/2014 12:00:00 AM

Wishing all our clients, colleagues, students and all others we have had the pleasure to come into contact with all the festive joys of the season!!

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Marcus Orlovsky almost back AND planning for 2015 AND new joiners

11/6/2014 12:00:00 AM

The last part of 2014 has been amazing so far and we welcome our new joiners: Asia (pronounced asha) from Poland, Kenza from Morocco and Eva from the Czech R...

INSET Days Immersions New Unlocks A Busy Half Term

10/13/2014 12:00:00 AM

It is amazing to think that the first half term of this academic year is already coming to a close. We have certainly kept ourselves busy; from facilitating ...

Getting Ready

8/29/2014 12:00:00 AM

So, summer schools are over, INSET days beginning and the new school year is gradually starting. We are all looking forward to a couple of rest days be...

Summer Schools in Full Swing

8/4/2014 12:00:00 AM

Most of us are out in Secondary Schools running Summer Schools for Year 6/7 students (ie in their last holidays as Primary students). It's amazing to s...

Unlock students inspire their peers

5/27/2014 12:00:00 AM

Unlock is all about encouraging students to think for themselves, do things for themselves and to spread that movement across their school and environment.

Bryanston Square is Hiring!

3/29/2014 12:00:00 AM

We are now looking for excellent great people with a real desire to make changes to peoples' lives, and are not afraid of stretching themselves.

Look...

Key Stage 2 Challenge Day

3/10/2014 12:00:00 AM

Last week the BSQ dream team trekked out of Liverpool Street Station at 6.40am for one of the best days of the year so far. 240 pupils, 30 raw eggs, 15 iPads...

Sixth form interview selection for the Unlock Programme

2/6/2014 12:00:00 AM

Last week 12 students were invited to take part in the selection process for a pilot sixth form Unlock programme. Having completed their written applications...

Our New Address

1/29/2014 12:00:00 AM

Our New Address is:

122 Minories

London

EC3N 1NT

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Socrates Tree - latest version release – creating a new vision for a change in headship

11/13/2013 12:00:00 AM

We’ve received some exciting feedback on Socrates’ Tree from a head teacher. This was used in the context of an experienced headteacher starting ...

Year 11 Challenge Day

10/14/2013 12:00:00 AM

An inner-city school asked us to inspire their new Year 11s to start their final year with a refreshed mindset. Our brief was, not only to encourage them to ...

Transition - A Multilayered Approach

9/10/2013 12:00:00 AM

A girls’ school in an area of high deprivation in South London commissioned us to deliver a two w...

Tackling perceptions of a PRU

9/2/2013 12:00:00 AM

We were approached by a PRU in the North West and asked to ‘do something’ with a group of their Year 11 students before they left their care. &nb...

Short, sharp interventions

8/21/2013 12:00:00 AM

We’re conscious that when schools ask us to work with their students, they are placing a lot of trust in us and they have to have faith that their inve...

The end of a very successful year

7/23/2013 12:00:00 AM

As the schools come to a close for the summer break, we’ve been reflecting on this academic year and the many schools and individuals we’ve had t...

Unlock Success and OFSTED

7/8/2013 12:00:00 AM

One of our Unlock groups conceptualised, planned and prepared two sessions to be delivered to all Year 7 students in their school. On Thursday July 4, ...

Students starting to Fly

6/24/2013 12:00:00 AM

As we gradually wind down this year's Unlock programmes in schools, students are really starting to fly and prove what they are able to do. We have gro...

Managing the Business of Schools

6/10/2013 12:00:00 AM

Marcus, Alison and Jen thoroughly enjoyed their time at the ASCL Business Management Conference last week. Thanks to all of you who visited our st...

ASCL Business Management Conference - June 6, Birmingham

5/30/2013 12:00:00 AM

For the first time, we've taken a stand at the ASCL Business Management Annual Conference which is taking place at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole next Wedne...

Inspiring Students

5/24/2013 12:00:00 AM

Research published in May 2013 by a postgrad student from Goldsmiths College, London verified that our Unlock programme grows students' confidence and abilit...

STOMP the Yard: Unlock STOMPING Success!

5/10/2013 12:00:00 AM

On the 2nd of May, four girls on our Unlock Programme pulled off a floor filling Wide Session called STOMP the Yard! A Wide Session aims to benefit the ...

Maximising the use of school spaces at minimum cost

4/19/2013 12:00:00 AM

Last week saw the completion of fitout projects in two schools. St Michael’s Catholic College needed a space for their 6^th Form studen...

Cinema Premiere of Year 4s Film

3/29/2013 12:00:00 AM

On 27th March 2013 the red carpet was rolled over at Alexandra Cinema in Newton Abbot, which raised the curiousity of many passers by. The film makers arri...

Primary school students are screening their first film at the cinema

3/26/2013 12:00:00 AM

We are very excited and proud to announce that today, the 27th of March 2013, there will be the premiere of 'Our Buckland' film - filmed and edited by ...

Future film makers

2/15/2013 12:00:00 AM

We took a class of Yr4/5 pupils from a Devon primary school (call to find out which one) to a wonderful FE college in Devon (same) to learn more about filmin...

Schools and interiors - better remodelling at a fraction of the price

1/24/2013 12:00:00 AM

We are delighted to report that two of the projects on transforming school interiors are at the point of contract signature less than six weeks after commenc...

Happy New Year

12/31/2012 12:00:00 AM

It’s the brink of a new year and we are busy at the office working to meet the deadlines for the application for a new free school. Exciting! We&...

Much more for Much less

12/18/2012 12:00:00 AM

We are so delighted that our efforts in bringing the Best in the World fitout companies into schools is reaping excellent results. Our very simplified ...

Unlock Continues to Inspire Students

11/20/2012 12:00:00 AM

Our very first Immersion Day of this academic year - and without doubt, the students' first experience of this kind. The recurring question of the day was 'M...

International Impact

10/12/2012 12:00:00 AM

Marcus Orlovsky has recently been sharing some thinking gained over the last four weeks as he presented work we have been carrying out in the UK in Denmark, ...

Back to School!

10/3/2012 12:00:00 AM

We are delighted to be running our Unlock Programme in even more schools this year.
We started this term off with the girls in Notre Dame RC Secondary G...

Busy over holidays. EdVenture in action

8/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

One of the things which EdVenture brings is to bring really great organisations who never work in school buildings into the market. After all, if a sch...

Inspiring futures at The Duston School

7/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

Well done to the Unlock group from The Duston School who organised a fantastic end of term event at their school. In the workshops, given by Microsoft,...

Another Unlock. Yes please!

7/3/2012 12:00:00 AM

In the final week of June we had a fun kick off at the Notre Dame R.C. Girls School in Southwark. We met thirty bright Year 8 and 9 girls who will be taking ...

Cooking with Hilton’s Head Chef

6/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

Yesterday a group of students who have been taking part in the Unlock programme at St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School in Gravesend organised an ex...

Learn more about our Unlock Programme

5/21/2012 12:00:00 AM

After the success of our Unlock programme over the past year we are planning to run seminars in Gravesend, Northampton and Southwark as a way to spread the w...

Unlock takes inspiration from the X Factor

4/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

Ashley John Baptiste of X Factor fame (The Risk, X Factor 2011) came with us to The Duston School Northampton as part of our Unlock programme last week. Ashl...

Liverpool Notre Dame School and EdVenture

4/5/2012 12:00:00 AM

On April 5th, The Liverpool Echo wrote about the stunning new Notre Dame Catholic ...

Windhill Pictures Presents

3/29/2012 12:00:00 AM

Today was a truly exciting day for the Windhill Primary School in Bishop’s Stortford! The local cinema, The Empire, hosted a premiere of a movie about ...

Another Successful Unlock Immersion Day

3/29/2012 12:00:00 AM

As part of our Unlock programme we took a group of students to a variety of organisations in London where they met interesting and inspiring people fro...

Association Of School Leaders Conference

3/13/2012 12:00:00 AM

Marcus will be a Keynote speaker at the ACSL Conference in Birmingham on 23-24 March. He will be joining luminaries such as Michael Gove, Sir Michael Wilshaw...

Have you ever wondered why construction is so expensive

2/3/2012 12:00:00 AM

If you've ever wondered why building work is so expensive or takes so long when shops can be transformed over a few evenings we can show you.

A gr...

Donald Farquharson joins the team!

1/25/2012 12:00:00 AM

Donald Farquharson has joined the team at Bryanston Square.
Donald has many years experience of PFI and PPP in schools and health and has recently compl...

Goodbye Andy

1/16/2012 12:00:00 AM

Last week saw the end of Andy's time at Bryanston Square. Andy has moved to work with children looked after by Islington Borough Council. His new role ...

Looking forward to 2012

1/3/2012 12:00:00 AM

We are looking forward to 2012 with a real sense of excitement. Here are some of the highlights:
Our innovative concept for schools building design, cal...

Motivating young people with the ‘Unlock’ programme

11/23/2011 12:00:00 AM

On 22 November, as part of their Unlock Programme, we ran the last in the series of three inspirational Immersion Days for St Michael’s Catholic Colleg...

Raising aspiration in young people

11/16/2011 12:00:00 AM

Students in Southwark showed us just how good they are at presenting by feeding back to their peers after attending an Immersion day with us last week. Thoug...

Inspiring students through immersion

11/11/2011 12:00:00 AM

As part of our Unlock Programme we took a group of students on an immersion day in London. The focus of the day was to understand career opportunities and to...

Student Voice is a Success on The Isle of Man

11/9/2011 12:00:00 AM

Primary school uses innovative tool to plan future

A HEADTEACHER has used an innovative online method of gaining pupils’ an...

Team Building in Southwark

10/17/2011 12:00:00 AM

As part of our work with St. Michael’s Catholic College we recently ran a team building workshop with 24 students from Years 8 to 10. These are the stu...

Our low cost school option is adopted

9/14/2011 12:00:00 AM

Liverpool City Council has just unveiled its proposals for school reorganisation across Liverpool. We are extremely pleased that EdVenture, Bryanston S...

School students design iPhone app

9/5/2011 12:00:00 AM

Here’s a great news story about a pair of school students from Saltash who are about to have their own iPhone app released. This week (June 1^st) the London Evening Standard is running a series of...

Liverpool Council working with Bryanston Square as reported

5/13/2011 12:00:00 AM

" Liverpool council is responding to the recommendations of the Sebastian James Review on standardisation and cost reduction by seeking to build four s...

Governor Networking

5/9/2011 12:00:00 AM

School governance is the most important voluntary role i...

University Challenge versus Countdown, which is a better test of intelligence, there’s only one way to find out

5/3/2011 12:00:00 AM

Earlier this year, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, won the University Challenge trophy. One member of the team, Gail Trimble, was feted by the media as being...

Some thoughts on the James review

4/13/2011 12:00:00 AM

The much delayed James Review into school capital projects makes interesting reading. Clearly there were aspects of the BSF process that were bloated, time cons...

More data in the new league tables

3/31/2011 12:00:00 AM

New data is now available on school ‘league tables’ which, according to M Gove will give parents the ability to make better informed choices abou...

Cooking and Teaching

3/7/2011 12:00:00 AM

There’s a fabulous blog by Richard Spencer this week, where he ponders on ‘celebrities’ setting up schools. You may have seen Jamie Oliver&...

EdVenture is fresh thinking for School buildings

2/23/2011 12:00:00 AM

On Thursday February 24th, Marcus introduced the BSEC conference to a new concept for a ‘delightful and inspiring’ education building. To find ou...

Surplus secondary school places may be an opportunity

2/17/2011 12:00:00 AM

Research by think tank Policy Exchange published in the Guardian suggests that the majority of surplus secondary school places are in our poorest performing ...

Cuts to the school music service

2/8/2011 12:00:00 AM

As Education Consultants we follow education news very closely. You may have seen recent reports from us regarding the White Paper and the English Baccalaure...

Obesity and the review of the national curriculum

2/3/2011 12:00:00 AM

Today it has been announced that ambulance services across the country are upgrading their vehicles to cope with ever larger patients. In the UK obesity levels...

Getting up to speed on web based software

2/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

It’s been a few weeks since the BETT conference in London. As Education Consultants we always go along to see what’s new in IT-land. But when we ...

National Curriculum Review in England

1/20/2011 12:00:00 AM

Today Michael Gove's review of the national curriculum in England begins. Michael Gove has been doing the rounds of national media and has been keen to point o...

More teachers to be trained in schools

1/7/2011 12:00:00 AM

The Government plans for more teacher training to be run in schools. Many see this simply as a way for the Government to make savings. The TDA has been told ...

The English Baccalaureate

1/5/2011 12:00:00 AM

Much has been written about this in the last few weeks. Is it a radical step or just some tinkering by Michael Gove? What will it achieve? Many schools will fin...

Creative Curriculum

12/23/2010 12:00:00 AM

Many are concerned that the recent white paper on the ‘Importance of Teaching’ has no mention of creativity in the curriculum. Indeed the words ‘creative’ and ‘...

Schools funding

12/23/2010 12:00:00 AM

The Government has maintained that the overall financial settlement for schools will be maintained at flat cash per pupil, but schools still face uncertainty...

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Inspiring students through TEDx and Unlock

Happy New Year

Festive Greetings!

Marcus Orlovsky almost back AND planning for 2015 AND new joiners

INSET Days Immersions New Unlocks A Busy Half Term

Getting Ready

Summer Schools in Full Swing

Unlock students inspire their peers

Bryanston Square is Hiring!

Key Stage 2 Challenge Day

Sixth form interview selection for the Unlock Programme

Our New Address

Socrates Tree - latest version release – creating a new vision for a change in headship

Year 11 Challenge Day

Transition - A Multilayered Approach

Tackling perceptions of a PRU

Short, sharp interventions

The end of a very successful year

Unlock Success and OFSTED

Students starting to Fly

Managing the Business of Schools

ASCL Business Management Conference - June 6, Birmingham

Inspiring Students

STOMP the Yard: Unlock STOMPING Success!

Maximising the use of school spaces at minimum cost

Cinema Premiere of Year 4s Film

Primary school students are screening their first film at the cinema

Future film makers

Schools and interiors - better remodelling at a fraction of the price

Happy New Year

Much more for Much less

Unlock Continues to Inspire Students

International Impact

Back to School!

Busy over holidays. EdVenture in action

Inspiring futures at The Duston School

Another Unlock. Yes please!

Cooking with Hilton’s Head Chef

Learn more about our Unlock Programme

Unlock takes inspiration from the X Factor

Liverpool Notre Dame School and EdVenture

Windhill Pictures Presents

Another Successful Unlock Immersion Day

Association Of School Leaders Conference

Have you ever wondered why construction is so expensive

Donald Farquharson joins the team!

Goodbye Andy

Looking forward to 2012

Motivating young people with the ‘Unlock’ programme

Raising aspiration in young people

Inspiring students through immersion

Student Voice is a Success on The Isle of Man

Team Building in Southwark

Our low cost school option is adopted

School students design iPhone app

Liverpool Council working with Bryanston Square as reported

Governor Networking

University Challenge versus Countdown, which is a better test of intelligence, there’s only one way to find out

Some thoughts on the James review

More data in the new league tables

Cooking and Teaching

EdVenture is fresh thinking for School buildings

Surplus secondary school places may be an opportunity

Cuts to the school music service

Obesity and the review of the national curriculum

Getting up to speed on web based software

National Curriculum Review in England

More teachers to be trained in schools

The English Baccalaureate

Creative Curriculum

Schools funding