// M&S has opened its archive to offer a series of online learning resources for parents, carers and teachers of primary and secondary-aged children
// Schools across the UK remain closed as part of a nationwide lockdown
// The educational resources, which include fashion and business studies are available for people to download at home
Marks & Spencer has launched a series of online learning resources in an effort to expand learning to parents, carers and teachers of primary and secondary-aged children as schools in the UK remain shut.
The resources, which include fashion and business studies are available for people to download at home.
The initiative has been created by the M&S Company Archive – which consists of four digital resources – “bring to life” M&S’s “heritage in leading on quality, innovation and service”, topics including the science behind textiles, the process of designing packaging and delivering for customers as a business and the history of food.
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The resources feature short films, printable worksheets and “fun, practical tasks, from pitching business ideas to creating food packaging to inventing garments of the future”.
It aims to support skills in maths, science, art and design, and business studies and have been developed by education experts in collaboration with teachers and home-schooling coordinators for Key Stages 1 to 4.
“As schools remain closed, we know families and teachers are looking for more ways to help kids learn at home, and that’s why we’ve teamed up with experts to create a new fully digital programme,” M&S Company Archive, Education & Outreach officer, Caroline Bunce said.
The M&S Company Archive contains over 71,000 items, and has been running educational programmes for schools at its exhibition for almost a decade.
In response to Covid-19, the archive has accelerated its plans to launch a full digital offering to extend its learning to children’s homes.
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