PARENTS and students from a Blyth academy teamed up for a 'puzzling' evening of mind-bending challenges.
Families from the Primary Years Bede Academy were invited to join a session with The Happy Puzzle Company designed to involve parents more in school life and to show that education is fun.
Five hundred and forty children spent two days with Happy Puzzle presenters Jenni Russell and Sharon Ross tackling a host of conundrums.
Numeracy lead at the academy Martin Lee then invited parents to join their children after school so students could share what they had learned and help find out if the grown-ups were up to the challenge.
Mr Lee said: “It is so important to the students’ education that families take an active interest in their schooling – it really does make a huge difference.
“Education will have changed a great deal since the adults were at school and offering an insight into the way their children are educated benefits everyone.”
Denise Knox, who attended the session with her daughter Holly, 10, said: “It has been really good fun and I do appreciate the benefits of taking an interest in school.
“Holly is doing fantastically well at the academy. The teachers are really focussed on the children’s abilities to make sure they get the most out of their education.”
