Digital Schoolhouse (DSH), in partnership with Nintendo UK and Outright Games, is expanding its school’s esports programme with a new nationwide tournament following a successful pilot last year. The DSH junior esports tournament is an immersive careers experience for pupils…
Mobo Game Jam Calls on Young Game Makers to Tackle Global Water Crisis
Digital Schoolhouse, in partnership with Kucheza Gaming, Edu360, WaterAid and Into Games have announced the first Mobo Game Jam. Mobo Game Jam is an international game-making challenge which will see young innovators from the UK and Nigeria compete to create…
Parents are confident in keeping children safe online and in games
A new study by the UK games trade body Ukie and Digital Schoolhouse, a national computing programme which uses play-based learning to engage the next generation of pupils with the Computing curriculum, has found that parents are confident in the…
Digital Schoolhouse Bring Games for Online Primary School Classes
Outright Games, has joined Digital Schoolhouse as a new partner in their initiative to help grow the grassroots of UK computing and diversify the pool of talent within the video games industry. The first step in this new partnership will…
Digital Schoolhouse Reveal lead teachers highly value the programme
The UK Interactive Association (Ukie) has released details of research carried out to assess the impact of its Digital Schoolhouse (DSH) programme during the school year 2018/2019. Digital Schoolhouse together with Nintendo UK, revealed that 96% of lead teachers highly…
Digital Schoolhouse Wins HundrED Digital Wellbeing Award
Digital Schoolhouse together with Nintendo UK is thrilled to announce it has won the prestigious HundrED Spotlight for Digital Wellbeing, celebrating organisations implementing creative innovations to promote and improve digital education. HundrED is a not-for-profit organisation that discovers, researches and…
SEGA, Ubisoft and Konami open their doors to Digital Schoolhouse students
SEGA, Ubisoft and Konami will open their doors to local Digital Schoolhouse students next week for the national Discover! Creative Careers week. Taking place 18th – 22nd November 2019, the special series of events aims to inspire young people to…
SCORPIONS claim the title of Digital Schoolhouse National Esports Tournament champions
The UK’s only national schools esports tournament came to an end yesterday after a thrilling final battle held at the Gfinity Esports Arena in London. Eight teams came together at the Grand Final event to duke it out after months…
Gfinity Arena to host Overwatch Digital Schoolhouse Esports Tournament Grand Finale
Ukie’s Digital Schoolhouse powered by PlayStation, has announced that the grand finale of its third national esports tournament will once again be hosted at the Gfinity Esports Arena in Fulham as part of the London Games Festival on 10th April. Participants…
Esports Goes Back To School
Ukie’s Digital Schoolhouse ‘National Esports Tournament’ Grand Finals are happening at Gfinity’s arena in Fulham Broadway this April. This event is the perfect way to engage students with careers education and opportunities within the UK video games industry. Ukie’s Digital…