Creating a free school is a form of entrepreneurship – hence its attraction to a still market-infatuated government – yet a more complex and perilous one than most, with pupils, buildings and government support all having to be individually secured, but simultaneously, and with securing one being largely dependent on securing the others.
This lesson plan uses the story to introduce the characteristics of different building materials, while this fun activity from Teachit Primary tasks pupils with building their own home for the porcine trio and seeing if they can blow the roof off.
We put "temporary" in quotations as the plan is for the new 540-pupil building of up to four storeys to stand on a section of Haggerston park in Hackney for five years from 2017.
When a school becomes an academy, it gains control of a tranche of funding that was previously held back by the local authority to provide services across the area, such as pupil welfare, building work, administrative support and arts and outdoor education.
A pupil referral unit for children excluded from mainstream school in Gloucestershire is building pupils' stamina and strength with Nintendo Wiis.
There has been much mockery of the idea that pupils will be building tree houses in the playground, or studying rap lyrics rather than Racine.
It also said they should demonstrate how they are building pupils' characters, and give careers advice to each child.
Sandymoor is receiving £1m from the DfE to cover the extra cost of building up pupil numbers over time, separate government funding data reveals.
Dingle Community Primary School, Kingswinford, West Midlands: purchase a class set of Raspberry Pi computers so pupils can explore computing through building their own machines.
Universities might form partnerships with regional high schools, building bridges to pupils and enhancing scientific literacy at an early stage.
