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Hop, skip, and jump yourway... ...to the first ever National School Sports Week, helmed by the Youth Sports Trust. Taking place from 16 to 22 June, this event aims to inspire schools to support children to take part in physical activity, and to make Friday 21st June the largest-ever school sports day in the UK. The week will encourage schools to embed movement throughout the school day, not just in PE lessons, helping young people achieve the recommended 60 minutes of activity daily, and improve their relationship with physical activity. Sign up to access exclusive resources, challenges, and the chance to win prizes, such as athlete mentor visits and Sports Direct vouchers, at tinyurl.com/tp-NSSW25 www.teachwire.net | 9 I N EVERY I SSUE Look ahead | Book ahead Q & A Build your own Britain Ordnance Survey (OS) has attempted to break a world record by creating the largest real-world place to ever exist in Minecraft. The blocky Britain was built using OS’s accurate cartography and detailed mapping data, and features everything frommeadows and lakes to motorways and railways. This newMinecraft world was developed by OS graduate and Minecraft enthusiast Jonathan Allsup. He said: “The educational aspect to it is strong. Kids relate to this game. It’s still popular now and is a great way to communicate the idea of location data and geography. Playing and building on a Minecraft map of Britain is much more engaging than looking at PowerPoint presentations in a classroom.” Find out more and download the game at tinyurl.com/tp-OSminecraft Bear Grylls TV presenter, adventurer and writer 1.What was primary school like for you? Primary school is where I have some of my fondest memories of school – low pressure, close friends, and caring teachers. It was secondary school where things got tougher for me and made me realise even more how lucky I was to have had a kind, positive first experience of the schooling system – never take primary school or kindergarten teachers for granted! 2.What’s your favourite expedition memory fromchildhood? Persuading a teacher to allow us to plan and do a winter mountaineering trip to Snowden in NorthWales. We took so much gear in packs that we could hardly move. We finally made it to the top but it was almost dark, so we camped too high and encountered some truly terrible winds and rain – our tent ripped and collapsed, and we barely made it back to the car park the next day! Experience is the sum of all our near misses, eh? 3. If you could share one nugget of advice about explorationwith teachers, what would it be? Be humble in the outdoors or it will humble you! But go for things and never underestimate the power of the outdoors to transform young people in terms of pride confidence and friendships. As Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, said: a week in the field is worth a year in the classroom . Bear Grylls’ new book, YOU Decide YOUR Adventure: Join Bear Grylls on the Ultimate Expedition (£14.99, DK) is out on 29th May. *Kapow Primary of primary teachers believe cutting subject content would improve pupils’ ability to master key concepts * 90% THE BIG BANG FAIR Want to find out why cockroaches have such strong bones and other weird science facts? Get your free tickets to the Big Bang Fair (NEC Birmingham, 17 to 19 June) at tinyurl.com/tp-BigBang25 POETRY BY HEART There’s still time to enter this year’s poetry learning and performing competition. Finalists will perform live at Shakespeare’s Globe on 7 July. Find out more at tinyurl.com/tp-PBH25