{"id":16501,"date":"2024-07-18T12:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=16501"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T11:22:55","slug":"discovery-education-nurtures-interest-in-politics-for-primary-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/discovery-education-nurtures-interest-in-politics-for-primary-pupils\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Education nurtures interest in politics for primary pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the new UK government begins its first term, Discovery Education is providing primary schools with digital resources to nurture pupil curiosity in democracy, parliament and the political process.<\/p>\n<p>Available via Discovery Education\u2019s award-winning digital learning service Espresso, the carefully curated content \u2013 which includes regularly updated news bulletins, videos and interactives \u2013 provides high-quality digital content schools can use to engage young people with democracy after the general election and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>In Espresso News Bites \u2013 the award-winning news service produced in partnership with ITN Productions \u2013 teachers can access daily and weekly news bulletins. From exploring how a general election works to understanding the recent transition of power, Espresso News Bites covers the latest news stories in a dynamic, engaging and age-appropriate way.<\/p>\n<p>In Espresso News in Focus, pupils can take a more in-depth look at news stories and topical events. New government and democracy resources include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What Does a Prime Minister Do? \u2013 looking at the role of the UK PM<\/li>\n<li>What Happened in the 2024 General Election? \u2013 explaining democracy in action<\/li>\n<li>New Government Gets to Work \u2013 exploring recent events in the UK Parliament<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsewhere in Espresso, teachers can access a whole raft of videos, activities and interactives on the subject of political process and democracy, supporting the teaching of British Values and Citizenship at KS1 and KS2.<\/p>\n<p>Lizzy Lambley, Discovery Education\u2019s UK Head of Production, said: \u201cIn this general election year, many children have become interested in the political process for the first time. We\u2019re proud to provide UK primary schools with these engaging digital resources to nurture their curiosity and teach them about the workings of government and democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discovery Education\u2019s resources are available to subscriber schools via Espresso, the daily learning service for primary schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the new UK government begins its first term, Discovery Education is providing primary schools with digital resources to nurture pupil curiosity in democracy, parliament and the political process. Available via Discovery Education\u2019s award-winning digital learning service Espresso, the carefully curated content \u2013 which includes regularly updated news bulletins, videos and interactives \u2013 provides high-quality &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-digital-learning","category-news","category-primary-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16503,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501\/revisions\/16503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}