The Nexus Education Blogs Awards 2019 takes place at Stoke-on-Tern Primary School on February 22nd 2019 and aims to recognise the contribution of educational bloggers from across the UK.
Co-founders of Nexus Education, Mike Reardon and Damien Challenger, note ‘’This free to attend event is our thank you for helping to build Nexus Education in to one of the most engaged platforms for teachers in the UK to share ideas, resources and free CPD via the form of blogging. We will be provide fantastic guest speakers, well earned individual awards and complimentary food and drink. We want to stand out as a company that gives back to our community and we can think of no better way than the Nexus Education Blog Awards’’.
Headteacher of the host school, Stoke-on-Tern Primary School, Heather Russell, said ”Everyone at Stoke-On-Tern Primary is so excited to be hosting the 2019 Nexus Education Blog Awards. We are looking forward to welcoming educators and bloggers from all across the UK to our school and working with Nexus Education on this fantastic event.”
The Categories
NQT / CPD Blog of the Year – presented by Renaldo Lawrence
Best Literacy / Numeracy Blog – presented by Emma Cork
EdTech / STEAM Blog of the Year – presented by Jade Parkinson-Hill
Commercial Partner of the Year – Presented by Damien Challenger & Mike Reardon
The Social Media Engagement Award – presented by Simon Hunt
Teacher Health & Wellbeing Blog Award (sponsored by Impero EdAware) – presented by Fiona Stygall
Video Blog Award – presented by Sue Atkins
Judges’ Choice Award – Presented by Johanna Reardon & Rhiannon Challenger
The Nominees
Meet our Guest Speakers (with more to come)
Simon recently shot to international stardom as the dance floss teacher, although he does teach from time to time! He recently won the Manchester Evening News School Awards in the ‘Inspirational Teacher of the Year’ category.
Simon is an SLE and Year 4 teacher at Tottington Primary School. He has also taught in Reception, Year 3 and 6 in his teaching career so far. Simon loves using technology and Skype to bring the world to his students through which he has spoken to famous authors, experts and film stars. He wants to share how you too can connect with the rest of the world and discuss the positive impact that social media can have in education. Simon will also share how a simple poem and Skype session, took a group of children all the way to EU parliament (invited and paid for by an MEP), a film premiere and subsequently named on an EU law. Through his work on poetry, he recently spoke at the Superpod6 event in Seattle USA, alongside the cast of the Netflix documentary Blackfish, where he used Skype to connect the audience with his class back in Tottington!
We are excited to announce that Sue Atkins will be talking at the Nexus Education Blog Awards 2019! Sue will talking about her journey from class teacher to deputy headteacher to business owner now appearing on This Morning, Sky News, Talk Radio and more!
Sue is the Parenting Expert on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ programme, offering practical guidance for bringing up happy, confident, resilient children from toddler to teen. She also regularly appears on BBC Radio, Sky News & talkRADIO doing a parenting round up on Eamonn Holmes ‘Drive Time Show.’
As well as all this Sue is also the author of the Amazon best seller ‘Parenting Made Easy – How To Raise Happy Children’ as well as ‘Raising Happy Children for Dummies’ – one in the famous black & yellow series!
Sue has been a huge supporter of Nexus Education and we are thrilled to have her speak at our awards!
We are very excited to announce the fantastic Jade Parkinson-Hill as a guest speaker for the Nexus Education Blog Awards.
Jade’s career to date has spanned both the tech and education world. In the last ten years she has worked in the UK education sector teaching, launching new schools and delivering entrepreneurship projects to students and communities across the North West of England. In 2015, Jade was named one of the ‘top 100 women in games’ in recognition of her role in establishing the UK’s first ‘geek’ school in Liverpool.
Jade has been interviewed on TV, radio and the press, including the BBC, Radio 4 and The Times Education Supplement talking about her passions of tech and entrepreneurship, in particular, motivating and supporting young entrepreneurs.
Be sure to come along and hear Jade talk about how to promote your teacher blog utilising social media as well as her experience in running a sideline project in the education sector.
Come and be inspired by the incomparable Renaldo Lawrence as he talks to us about his journey from ex-NBA basketball player to a life time in teaching.
Renaldo is an e-learning developer and educator recognised by Adobe, Apple, TechSmith and Microsoft.
Renaldo develops and deploys interactive learning resources for staff, faculty, and students as an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Advanced Skills teacher. He also consults and trains across the United States and Europe on how to create and use digital media, web design, and elearning applications in the classroom. Renaldo is an Adobe Education Leader, Apple Distinguished Educator, Microsoft Innovative Educator and Educator Trainer, and an Advanced Skills teacher.