Education in brief

Aerial view of the Olympic Park with the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Media Press Centre (MPC), now iCity, in the foreground. Photograph: Anthony Charlton / ODA

* Hackney Community College and Loughborough University are among the institutions set to open up new educational facilities in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Hackney Community College will establish a new digital apprenticeship programme at iCITY – based in the former Press and Broadcast Centres – and Loughborough University will open a new campus there. Other iCity tenants will include BT Sport, the telecommunication company’s new sports channel.

* A digital summer camp for the next generation of entrepreneurs aged nine to 18 will take place at Hackney Community College’s Shoreditch campus this summer. The event aims to draw on the experience and renown of the over 1,340 technology companies clustered in the area. Participants will learn how to code and develop the next web sensation, build their own computer games, create an app with the potential to storm the charts and programme a robot. Tickets cost just £10, with “early bird” tickets available at £5. The event will take place on 10, 11 and 12 July 2013.

* The reality of modern parenting is laid bare in a new exhibition at Hackney Museum featuring family portraits, interviews with parents and a film by a mum of four who wore a small camera to video the reality of the morning school run. The exhibition runs until August 31 at the museum in Reading Lane, E8. Entrance is free.

* A sharp drop in children exercising has been revealed by a survey carried out by think tank the Smith Institute. The survey of 1,000 school sport teachers and organisers reveals that participation in school sports has declined since the funding regime changed. Education secretary Michael Gove axed ringfenced funding for school sports in 2011.

* Schoolchildren are being given the chance to explore Clissold Park’s new butterfly dome and learn about insects this summer as part of an “outdoor classroom” scheme run by Hackney Council. A Year 3 class from Northwold Primary School in Stoke Newington attended one of the first of a series of workshops, which also focus on improving literacy and numeracy.