When the government announced its first tranche of Covid recovery funding for schools, Anna Grice, a headteacher at Thameside primary in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, immediately knew where to go, as she had an existing relationship with an established local tutoring charity.She was able to pick up...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightPA MediaMore than 23,500 children in Northern Ireland find out which post-primary school they will transfer to on Saturday.For the first time in decades, grammar schools have not used transfer tests to decide which pupils to admit.Both test providers cancelled them...
School leaders have warned against the government “sleepwalking” into further disruption to education as data showed the Delta variant was continuing to spread within schools in England, with a rapid rise in infections among secondary school pupils and further outbreaks in recent weeks.Data from Public...
A 15-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in west London during the morning school run.Officers were called to reports of a fight on Blyth Road in Hayes shortly before 8.35am and found the victim with multiple stab wounds. He died at the scene, close...
Dr Jill Biden met with the Duchess of Cambridge to visit a Cornwall primary school as the G7 summit got under way on Friday. The pair appeared cheerful as they walked towards the school, where they met with pupils ahead of a talk with experts...
Regarding the point of your article (School trips to UK from EU could halve as Brexit hits cultural exchanges, 4 June), we have a very significant paradox. The UK government talks about “global Britain”, but it seems to completely fail to understand the increasing role...
The Conservative MP Maria Miller has accused Ofsted of a “massive safeguarding failure” after a report by the schools inspectorate showed that sexual harassment and abuse in schools is so commonplace that pupils don’t bother to report it.Miller was chair of the Commons women and...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightGetty ImagesA head teacher has banned skirts from his school citing "frequent" complaints that they are "far too revealing".In an email to parents at St Martin's School in Caerphilly, Lee Jarvis said from September both pupils and staff must wear tailored...
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Boys are distributing explicit images of girls with each other via social media like a “collection game” , a major new report by Ofsted found.The school watchdog, which spoke to over 900 children and young people, discovered the intimate images are routinely shared on platforms like...