These five alternative schools have been built around a community ethos. Each offers a way for students to get involved in their local neighbourhood.

Make your own eco-friendly Halloween decorations, celebrate apple day, try using a printing press for free in Bloomsbury, explore the teenage mind with digital images and high-wire acrobatics in Manchester!

Honouring a major transition - Written by Kim McCabe

Wouldn't you have loved to have gone to magic school? asks Hannah Hardy

This day celebrates the birth anniversary of lexicographer, Noah Webster.

Teenagers getting up early on a Saturday morning to learn? You’d better believe it

Parenting outside the mainstream can be challenging and lonely. That’s why we created The Green Parent magazine. As well as lots of juicy articles and brilliant ideas you also join a community of parents who are raising slightly feral kids.

Writer and podcaster Tsh Oxenreider gives Hannah Hiles the lowdown on world travel with kids

Make kites, marvellous marrow recipes, be part of an art installation, find fun and cheap things to do in Scotland, celebrate 200 years of Frankenstein!

Plastic! Cheap, lightweight, ubiquitous. The most popular material on the planet, used for everything from packaging to phones. But most of the plastics we use everyday take hundreds of years to break down.