“For Our Tomorrow” – Canadian and UK Schools Remember Together
This year, 2024, marks 80 years since D-Day. To mark this historical event Big Ideas worked with the Maple Leaf Trust to host Stories Behind the Poppy: D-Day80. A series of three events hosted on Thursday 7th November spanning multiple timezones brought together over...
Reach for the sky!
Flight for All Inspires Aviation Aspirations Among Thousands of Young People Could you imagine your future in the skies? Flight for All, a groundbreaking initiative co-funded by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport, through the Reach for the...
You think it’s hard to tidy your room? Imagine cleaning up Space!
With special guests Professor Craig Underwood and Dr Lucinda King, nearly 7000 students across the United Kingdom joined our second series of STEM with Wings workshops. The theme was Space Junk, the ever-increasing man-made rubbish in-earth orbit which is having an...
Black History in Maths – celebrating Thomas Fuller
"Black History in Maths - celebrating Thomas Fuller" attracted more than 8500 children from across the country to digital workshops for Black History Month on 22 October. Participants were invited to explore the story of the brilliant mathematician Thomas Fuller who...
Power in Pals: Premier League’s WW1 Education Project
The new school year is here, and at Big Ideas, we’re ready to kick off one of our most exciting projects: the Premier League's Christmas Truce Education Challenge. This powerful mix of history, football, and creativity has been igniting young minds for seven years!...
East London Wonders
London Wonder is an innovative pilot programme created by Big Ideas in collaboration with The Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Secondary school teachers collaborating with the Royal Commission's Science, Engineering, and Entrepreneurial Research...