Despite facing extreme educational challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, our pupils at Laidlaw Schools Trust academies have demonstrated remarkable resilience and diligence, achieving excellent A-Level and GCSE results. We are incredibly grateful to the exceptional teachers, [...]
A schoolteacher is offering food for thought with a new series of videos about eating cheaply but healthily during the pandemic. Originally published in The Sunderland Echo. By Gareth Ledwith. Jo Tissington, a food technology teacher at Sunderland’s Academy 360, [...]
Government criticised for refusing to continue national free school meals voucher scheme over summer break Written by Amy Gibbons for Tes. Original article. The government has been threatened with legal action if it fails to extend free school meals (FSM) [...]
Cook With Jack - our joint initiative with Bite Back 2030 that aims to teach viewers to prepare quick, tasty and affordable lunches at home during quarantine - has been featured in The Sunday Times. Cook With Jack is [...]
CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation, Susanna V. Kempe, was recently featured in London Business School's publication Think to explain how organisations can dramatically redress the gender imbalance with simple, pragmatic steps. Excerpt from Think: "If you rank the Fortune [...]
Bite Back 2030 launches a daily cook-along series, Cook with Jack, to show children how to prepare quick, tasty and affordable lunches, sponsored by the Laidlaw Foundation. Cook With Jack will be shown every school day at 12pm live [...]
William Liu, a Laidlaw Scholar from Tufts University, works with a bicoastal engineering team to enhance PPE for medical professionals using snorkeling masks and 3D printing. Excerpt from TuftsNow article by Laura Ferguson. Read full article here. Photos: Courtesy of [...]
9th April 2020 IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lord Laidlaw Gives Four Thousand Food Packages to Masiphumelele Township Lord Laidlaw is providing four thousand food packages, with enough food for a family of four, to his local township Masiphumelele, for the next [...]
Oxford -- The Laidlaw Foundation will fund scholarships for women at Saïd Business School. The scholarships are intended to encourage extraordinary women with clear leadership potential to enrol onto the MBA programme when they would not have previously considered the qualification due to financial constraints.
The Newcastle-based multi-academy trust, Laidlaw Schools Trust (LST), welcomed a new ‘outstanding’ school to its growing group of academies on March 1.