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New Directions and Cardiff City Continue Commitment to Girls Football

4th July 2018

New Directions Education and the Cardiff City Community Foundation have demonstrated their commitment to girls football for another year. The 2018 Girls Schools Under 11 Cup was held on Wednesday 4th July amid an unanticipated heatwave and more skill on display than ever before. The final was fought out by Crickhowell Community Primary School and […]

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New Directions Education – Echoing Estyn Sentiments with CPD

28th June 2018

A report by the office of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales – Estyn has today reported that the quality of teaching in schools improves when staff are working in an environment where they are trusted and supported. The report identifies that environments in which schools allow their teachers to learn are […]

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Clearing the way for Newport Forest School

19th June 2018

A leading education recruitment team swapped the comfort of their desks for a day to help clear the way for a Newport school’s forest classroom. Four staff from the award-winning Cardiff business were invited by Kim Fisher, Deputy Headteacher of Crindau Primary School to roll up their sleeves and get to one-to-one with nature to […]

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National Recruiter Opens State-of-the-Art Training Suite

On Thursday 14th June 2018 New Directions Education formally opened their fully equipped training suite as part of their continued commitment to their schools, colleges and candidates across South Wales. New Directions who are the ‘managed service provider’ of staff to the education community throughout Wales made the move in a bid to support the […]

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Benefits of outdoor learning

13th June 2018

We’re sure you can all remember a time when we were younger, running through the woods, jumping in puddles, swinging precariously from trees discovering new and exciting things on our adventures. We enjoyed the rare school trip once or twice a year where we would visit sea aquariums, museums or zoos. For most of us […]

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School Dinners Around the World

12th June 2018

In the UK for years school dinners have been subject to mockery, campaigns to create a healthier culture and many a playground school rhyme. Our team decided to investigate how we shape up against the rest of the world. We were, at times shocked with what we discovered. In an attempt to make ourselves feel […]

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The 100 legendary women who could be the first to be immortalised

31st May 2018

We would like to wish a huge congratulations to one of our very own Learning Support Assistants, Martha Musonza Holman, founder of Love Zimbabwe charity and Love Zimbabwe CIC who has made the shortlist of 100 legendary welsh women who could be made into Cardiff’s first female statute. The list is made up of 50 […]

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Denbighshire School Receives Donation for Sensory Breaks Project

22nd May 2018

Senior Account Manager for our Wrexham team, Rebecca Macintyre was on hand recently at Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn to present the schools with a cheque for funds raised of £300. Rebecca is our point of contact for schools across Denbighshire, and she was delighted to share the presentation with Eleri Thomas from the school and a […]

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Spring Attendance Winners

We were recently invited to one of the schools we work within Liverpool, to present to the lucky winner of the spring attendance prize draw. Kerry one of our account managers from the Wirral office attended St Margaret Mary’s Infants Catholic Primary School to present the lucky winner with £50 worth of Chester Zoo vouchers […]