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Biggest primary MAT threatened with funding termination for failing academy
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Apr 2, 2019
Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
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Apr 2, 2019
Top trust could lose primary academy if more schools fall to ‘inadequate’
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Apr 2, 2019
Parkfield LGBT protest: Why has the school’s top teacher been silenced?
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Apr 2, 2019
The Guardian view on school exclusions: the wrong answer | Editorial
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Apr 1, 2019
DfE’s times tables check for Year 4 pupils available for schools
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Apr 1, 2019
Spielman: LGBT protests ‘setting terrible example for children’
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Apr 1, 2019
Concerns raised about primary exclusions
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Apr 1, 2019
Primary school league table: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area
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Apr 1, 2019
Rising primary school exclusions deeply concerning, says Labour
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Apr 1, 2019
Number of primary school children at referral units soars
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Apr 1, 2019
Primary schools will deliver LGBT lessons
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Mar 29, 2019
Protests over LGBT+ classes ramp up at Birmingham school as MPs back more inclusive curriculum
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Mar 28, 2019
Primary teacher training applications fall 6%
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Mar 28, 2019
Primary school pupils will learn about sexual orientation after landslide commons vote
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Mar 28, 2019
Scotland: Girl, 12, arrested after bringing knife into primary school playground
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Mar 28, 2019
Parents continue protests over LGBT-inclusive teaching in schools
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Mar 28, 2019
Primary children to be taught about LGBT issues after historic vote
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Mar 28, 2019
Kids to spend an extra hour in school after damning report into ‘failing teachers’
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Mar 27, 2019
Planning primary poetry
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Mar 27, 2019
IBM Robo Challenge focusses on girls who STEM
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Mar 27, 2019
School adds extra hour onto day so that Year 6 pupils can 'make up for lost time'
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Mar 27, 2019
Piers Morgan slams parents pulling kids out of schools over LGBT lessons
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Mar 27, 2019
Dozens of parents and children protest outside second Birmingham primary school
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Mar 27, 2019
One in 10 primary teachers should have science master’s, MSPs hear
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Mar 26, 2019
Primary school extends class until 4.30pm to prepare children for secondary
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Mar 26, 2019
Primary schools should restart lessons on gay and transgender issues despite furious protests from parents, says ex-Ofsted chief
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Mar 26, 2019
Birmingham LGBT lessons row school staff 'distraught'
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Mar 25, 2019
Abide by Britain’s laws, ex-Ofsted chief tells parents in same-sex lessons row
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Mar 25, 2019
Birmingham school should resume LGBT lessons, says ex-Ofsted chief
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Mar 25, 2019
Reinstate LGBT classes, says Sir Michael Wilshaw
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Mar 25, 2019
DfE ‘considering options’ for free sanitary products in primaries
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Mar 25, 2019
Outsourced schools: the Essex mums fighting back (podcast)
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Mar 25, 2019
Hundreds of parents join WhatsApp group to rage about LGBT lessons in schools
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Mar 22, 2019
Parkfield School LGBT lessons 'not axed' despite protests
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Mar 22, 2019
Half of primary pupils haven’t received road safety training
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Mar 22, 2019
Boy and his mum paid £3,500 by a council after he missed a year of lessons
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Mar 21, 2019
Ofsted warns Jewish school over lack of LGBT awareness
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Mar 21, 2019
Birmingham LGBT row: Parkfield School protests resume
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Mar 21, 2019
LGBTQ lessons pulled from schools following protests from parents
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Mar 21, 2019
Protesting parents return to Birmingham school in LGBT lessons row
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Mar 21, 2019
Scotland: Disgusted parents slam council as rats ‘run wild’ at Edinburgh school
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Mar 21, 2019
Campaigners say they want Birmingham LGBT teaching abolished
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Mar 21, 2019
Protests by parents must not be allowed to turn the clock back on LGBT rights | Peter Turay
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Mar 21, 2019
Andrea Leadsom defends right of parents withdrawing their children from LGBT lessons as four more schools axe the class
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Mar 20, 2019
Society has changed – our children's sex and relationships education must too
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Mar 20, 2019
How a primary on a traffic island became the greenest school
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Mar 20, 2019
Baseline testing: Education requires brave politicians
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Mar 20, 2019
What are primary school children being taught about LGBT+ relationships?
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Mar 20, 2019
Parents should have the right to withdraw their children from LGBT lessons, says Andrea Leadsom
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Mar 20, 2019
More Birmingham schools suspend LGBT lessons
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Mar 20, 2019
Conservative minister Andrea Leadsom says parents should be allowed to prevent children being 'exposed' to LGBT+ rights classes
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Mar 20, 2019
Four more Birmingham primary schools suspend LGBT+ lessons after complaints from parents
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Mar 20, 2019
Four more Birmingham schools have cancelled LGBT+ lessons over 'no outsiders' row
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Mar 20, 2019
Four more Birmingham primary schools halt equality lessons
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Mar 19, 2019
Four more schools stop teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues after protests from parents
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Mar 19, 2019
Parents complain to Manchester schools about LGBT lessons
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Mar 19, 2019
LGBT lessons row: More Birmingham schools stop classes
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Mar 19, 2019
Small ‘good’ schools may get exemption from longer inspections
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Mar 19, 2019
Schools call for overhaul of primary school testing
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Mar 19, 2019
YouGov/More Than A Score survey on testing
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Mar 18, 2019
All-through schools are proving a missed opportunity
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Mar 18, 2019
DfE 'minded' to rebroker school from Inspiration Trust
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Mar 15, 2019
Podcast episode 47: The challenges of developing primary school leadership
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Mar 15, 2019
Poorer pupils ‘catch up’ by end of primary, but fall behind again at GCSE
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Mar 15, 2019
Primary school suspends LGBT lessons after parents hold protest
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Mar 14, 2019
Birmingham primary school at centre of LGBT row halts equality lessons
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Mar 14, 2019
Running rural primary schools efficiently
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Mar 14, 2019
The plastic-free primary school
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Mar 14, 2019
Birmingham primary school suspends LGBT lessons indefinitely
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Mar 14, 2019
Birmingham primary school suspends LGBT+ lessons after weekly protests from parents
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Mar 14, 2019
Primary school stops gay teacher’s LGBT lessons after 300 Muslim parents protest
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Mar 14, 2019
Parkfield School: Protests called off as LGBT lessons ended
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Mar 14, 2019
School rethinks plans to re-start LGBT lessons amid protests
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Mar 14, 2019
Parkfield’s LGBT lessons cancelled until ‘resolution’ found over parent protests
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Mar 14, 2019
Small rural schools could share headteachers to stay afloat, DfE study suggests
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Mar 14, 2019
Scotland: Teacher who forced toast into autistic boy's mouth and mistreated other pupils barred from the classroom
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Mar 14, 2019
Primary school pupils as young as four to learn about paedophiles and exploitation
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Mar 13, 2019
Children's web series launches to tackle growing threat of online grooming
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Mar 13, 2019
Four-year-olds will learn how to avoid web abusers
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Mar 13, 2019
Ofsted backs primary school over Muslim parents who pull kids from class in protest at gay lessons
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Mar 12, 2019
Scotland: Class sizes - youngest pupils increasingly taught in larger classes
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Mar 12, 2019
Parkfield Community School: Ofsted says LGBT lessons are 'appropriate'
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Mar 12, 2019
Ofsted rules Parkfield’s LGBT lessons are ‘age-appropriate’
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Mar 12, 2019
Birmingham primary school in LGBT row cleared by watchdog
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Mar 12, 2019
Lessons in Sweetieland: Matthew Bourne's old primary school dance his Nutcracker!
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Mar 12, 2019
Ofsted praises school at centre of LGBT lessons row
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Mar 12, 2019
We must invest more in science teaching at primary level
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Mar 11, 2019
Primary schools aren't about preparing pupils for the world of work
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Mar 11, 2019
Need to know: Reception baseline assessment
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Mar 11, 2019
Police investigate 'homophobic graffiti' at Parkfield Primary School in Birmingham
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Mar 8, 2019
Police investigate homophobic graffiti at sex education row school
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Mar 8, 2019
Head steps down after test results are scrapped over claims pupils were helped
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Mar 8, 2019
Speaking out against baseline
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Mar 8, 2019
DfE slammed for refusing to publish baseline trial results
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Mar 8, 2019
Teaching first aid in primary schools could save lives
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Mar 7, 2019
Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4
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Mar 6, 2019
The baseline test won't work - just look at my kids
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Mar 6, 2019
Council condemned for leaving boy with SEND out of education for a year
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Mar 6, 2019
Reporter's take: can the latest Baseline assessment win over critics?
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Mar 5, 2019
Top employers to help all primary schools offer careers education to pupils
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Mar 5, 2019
Banned: Headteacher who let London Bridge attacker teach children unsupervised
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Mar 5, 2019
Hinds promises career education in all primaries
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Mar 5, 2019
Primary school axes anti-homophobia lessons after protests from Muslim parents
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Mar 5, 2019
DfE pledges ‘career-related learning’ in all primary schools
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Mar 5, 2019
Primary school drops trans rights classes after boycott
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Mar 5, 2019
Reception baseline assessment: national voluntary pilot sign-up
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Mar 4, 2019
Reception baseline assessment: NAHT’s position
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Mar 4, 2019
Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry
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Mar 4, 2019
Reception baseline provider defends the ‘robust assessment’
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Mar 1, 2019
Twitter row erupts after This Morning debate on new plans to teach children about sex education
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Mar 1, 2019
The award-winning primary that made its staff feel amazing
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Feb 28, 2019
Barham Primary School welcomed Damien Hinds
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Feb 28, 2019
DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video
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Feb 28, 2019
The new baseline assessment is fairer than what we have
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Feb 28, 2019
Inspiration Trust slams Ofsted inspectors after primary school put in special measures
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Feb 28, 2019
Plans to broaden baseline beyond maths and literacy dropped
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Feb 27, 2019
‘Pointless’ baseline assessment pilot for 4 year olds announced by Government
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Feb 27, 2019
Schools invited to pilot Reception baseline as opposition against it grows
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Feb 27, 2019
Baseline 'unfair', say three-quarters of primary heads
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Feb 27, 2019
Schools invited to sign up for controversial baseline pilot
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Feb 27, 2019
Testing of under-fives goes ahead despite teaching union objections
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Feb 27, 2019
Schools sought for autumn 2019 baseline pilot
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Feb 27, 2019
Primary schools must teach computing
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Feb 26, 2019
We should cheer this push to teach good mental health
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Feb 26, 2019
Scotland: Primary school closed after lead found in water
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Feb 26, 2019
Self-care and mental health focus of Government's new education guidance
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Feb 25, 2019
Teaching five year olds about sexuality and relationships would trigger a host of problems
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Feb 25, 2019
5-year-olds won't be taught about gay and trans relationships, says Hinds
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Feb 25, 2019
How to revamp your primary curriculum
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Feb 25, 2019
Children as young as four will not learn about LGBT+ relationships, minister says
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Feb 25, 2019
DfE lays out plans for compulsory health lessons
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Feb 25, 2019
Hinds unveils training plan for schools ahead of relationships and sex education rollout
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Feb 25, 2019
Primary school children ‘to be taught about gay and trans relationships'
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Feb 24, 2019
Primary and secondary shouldn't see each other as aliens
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Feb 21, 2019
Scotland: Swinney doubts expert’s view on ‘useless’ P1 tests
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Feb 21, 2019
Primary and secondary teaching are too alien to be lumped together...
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Feb 19, 2019
Knowledge entitlement or misguided policy? The new multiplication tables check for primary children
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Feb 15, 2019
The school that bought pupils a house to give them a future
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Feb 13, 2019
Scotland: Schools to trial car-free zones during busy periods
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Feb 13, 2019
School pupils issue fake parking tickets to tackle pollution
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Feb 13, 2019
Parents slam primary school as ‘concentration camp’ after young pupils forced to eat lunch in silence
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Feb 13, 2019
Scotland: Glasgow primary schools to trial car-free zones
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Feb 13, 2019
Banned school governor Tahir Alam fights gay lessons
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Feb 13, 2019
Gloucestershire school children learning to love nature with help from the Environment Agency
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Feb 12, 2019
Intention and substance: primary school science curriculum research
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Feb 12, 2019
Grammar schools' ‘insult’ to teachers as 6th formers coach 11+
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Feb 12, 2019
Why primary teachers should think twice about setting homework
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Feb 12, 2019
Primary school failings could ‘stifle’ interest in science, Ofsted warns
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Feb 12, 2019
Science ‘downgraded’ in primary schools, Ofsted warns
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Feb 12, 2019
Closing the word gap in primary and secondary schools
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Feb 8, 2019
Charles Darwin school musical dropped after complaints
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Feb 8, 2019
School cancels play about Darwin and evolution after Christian parents complain
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Feb 7, 2019
Scotland: Market forces risk widening the attainment gap
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Feb 5, 2019
Boy, six, removed from school after he was found carrying a knife
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Feb 2, 2019
Scotland: 'Buddy bench' scheme helping pupils make playground friends
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Feb 1, 2019
Country’s largest primary MAT pools schools’ cash
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Jan 31, 2019
Campaigners against the Baseline to speak at the Nursery World Show
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Jan 31, 2019
Drop in number of applications for primary teacher training
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Private companies 'seeking profits' from P1 testing
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Primary tests - don't put pressure on teachers to raise standards, expert warns
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: P1 testing ‘will lead to more pupils with special needs’
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Don’t test the slower-learning late bloomers in P1, literacy expert says
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Professor takes Scots P1 test and says questions not ‘easy’
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Jan 30, 2019
Scotland: P1 test questions 'not all easy', expert tells MSPs after sitting assessment
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Jan 30, 2019
Grouping primary children by ability is indefensible
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Jan 30, 2019
Pupils won’t lose SATs marks for back-to-front commas, DfE tells primary heads
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Jan 29, 2019
Scottish colleges enrol more schoolchildren
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Jan 29, 2019
Supply and demand: Looking to the past to meet the inclusive challenge ahead
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Jan 29, 2019
Star of the Week … do some primary school rewards do more harm than good?
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Jan 29, 2019
The day the T. rex came to school
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Jan 29, 2019
Mums protest outside Birmingham school for 'promoting homosexuality' to kids
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Jan 28, 2019
Muslim parents protest over LGBT sex education in a primary school (video)
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Jan 28, 2019
Scotland: National tests for youngest pupils: review starts
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Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: Experiences of P1 pupil assessments sought in review
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Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: The inherent flaw in testing 5-year-olds
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Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: Experiences of P1 pupil assessments sought in review
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Jan 25, 2019
Primary school league table: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area
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Jan 24, 2019
Scotland: Academics turn screw on Swinney over P1 tests
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Jan 24, 2019
Education and Employers and OECD launch report at Davos
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Jan 23, 2019
Primary Futures comes to Davos
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Jan 23, 2019
Starting careers learning in primary schools
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Jan 23, 2019
Scotland: Primary one national test data could be 'invalidated', academic warns
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Jan 23, 2019
Boost careers advice in primaries, says Teach First
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Jan 23, 2019
New research highlights importance of starting careers learning in primary schools
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Jan 23, 2019
Business leaders urged to help children broaden horizons
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Jan 23, 2019
Mismatch between career aspirations and labour market demand could undermine fourth industrial revolution #4IR
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Jan 23, 2019
Facing the challenge of Ofsted’s new framework for primary schools
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Jan 22, 2019
Scotland: Primary headteachers welcome latest pay proposals
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Jan 22, 2019
Ofsted must remember that primaries and secondaries operate very differently
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Jan 21, 2019
Wales: Learners to experience new languages at an earlier age
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Jan 18, 2019
Angry head says ministers must stop 'humiliating' schools
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Jan 17, 2019
Children told they are not allowed hot meal if school dinner money is owed
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Jan 15, 2019
Primary school launches £20k fundraising campaign to provide necessary teaching and resources for pupils
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Jan 15, 2019
Almost 50 infants a day attack teachers
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Jan 15, 2019
Government neglect of arts education | Letter
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Jan 14, 2019
Restricting promotions of food linked to childhood obesity: public asked views
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Jan 12, 2019
'Dramatic decline' in quantity and quality of arts in primaries
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Jan 11, 2019
Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon apologises to ‘misrepresented’ academics
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Jan 11, 2019
‘We fight for every penny’: teachers say not enough resources for arts education
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Jan 11, 2019
Scotland: First Minister apology to academics 'misrepresented' on primary school testing
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Jan 10, 2019
Scotland: Inverness primary school evacuated over suspected gas leak
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Jan 10, 2019
Scotland: Claims top academic backs Primary 1 tests are a 'perverse misrepresentation'
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Jan 10, 2019
Second international expert savages Scottish Government on primary testing
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Jan 10, 2019
Scotland: Swinney under pressure to drop tests for P1 pupils
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Jan 10, 2019
Scotland: Assessment of youngest pupils used 'unethically'
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Jan 9, 2019
Hanging around the school gates won’t tell you how happy your child will be there
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Jan 9, 2019
Analysis: Academic asks "Was Scottish Government stupid or deliberately misleading?"
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Jan 9, 2019
Scotland: Man tried to jump in car with child near Dundee primary school
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Jan 9, 2019
Scotland: Schools using test data for unethical purposes, MSPs warned
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Jan 9, 2019
Scottish government 'brazenly twisted' top academic’s work’
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Jan 9, 2019
Scotland: John Swinney ‘should say sorry for fabricating support for P1 testing’
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Jan 9, 2019
Top academic: 'I was misrepresented by Scottish Government on P1 testing'
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Jan 9, 2019
'Over-ambitious parents' are landing their children in the worst schools
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Jan 9, 2019
Parents looking for top primaries should make reconnaissance trip to school gates, Good Schools Guide says
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Jan 9, 2019
Tring school concern at polling station voter abuse
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Jan 8, 2019
Phonics resources to tackle childhood obesity
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Jan 8, 2019
The Careers and Enterprise Company launch new funding pot for primary school career programmes
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Jan 3, 2019
Do we hide the truth about behaviour from parents in primary?
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Dec 19, 2018
Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4
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Dec 19, 2018
Desperate primary school head sends parents 'embarrassing' Christmas list
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Dec 19, 2018
Headteacher sends parents ‘Christmas wish list’ asking them to buy pencils, chalk and rulers after staff wages leave school with £400k black hole
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Dec 19, 2018
Inspection finds Cardiff primary school's safeguarding arrangements are 'serious cause for concern'
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Dec 18, 2018
Schools tell pupils boys can have periods too in new guidelines on transgender issues
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Dec 18, 2018
Rural primary schools designation
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Dec 17, 2018
Scotland: ‘Scrapping our national tests for 5-year-olds makes little sense’
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Dec 14, 2018
EEF publishes new evaluation reports, including two focused on improving maths
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Dec 14, 2018
Scotland: Council attacked for ‘political games’ over P1 testing
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Dec 14, 2018
The worst primary schools in England revealed
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Dec 14, 2018
England's worst primary schools revealed
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Dec 14, 2018
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Dec 13, 2018
Statistics: performance tables
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Dec 13, 2018
Approaches to assessment without levels in schools
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Dec 13, 2018
Gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers narrows
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Dec 13, 2018
Poorer primary school students narrow Sats test gap
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Dec 13, 2018
Poor primary-school pupils to lag richer classmates until 2070
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Dec 13, 2018
New primary school data for England has been published by the government
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Dec 13, 2018
How can primaries offer a broad curriculum and still get literacy right?
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Dec 13, 2018
England's worst primary schools revealed
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Dec 13, 2018
England's best and worst primary schools
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Dec 13, 2018
Primary school tables: Poor pupils won't catch up for 50 years
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Dec 13, 2018
More than 350 primaries below Sats floor target
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Dec 13, 2018
Number of 11-year-old pupils achieving expected standards rises again
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Dec 13, 2018
Free infant meals could have cost primaries £67m in pupil premium
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Dec 13, 2018
Primary school league table 2018: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area
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Dec 13, 2018
Fewer primary schools below floor standard, but more are coasting
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Dec 13, 2018
England's primary school league tables to be published
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Dec 13, 2018
How much Pupil Premium funding are primary schools missing out on?
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Dec 12, 2018
Sturgeon accused of failing Scottish children: Shocking failure of SNP primary curriculum
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Dec 12, 2018
Primary schools score poorly on curriculum quality
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Dec 11, 2018
Kids upset after Christian charity worker 'said Santa was not real at assembly'
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Dec 7, 2018
'We're fighting to save the school, it means a lot to us' say parents of Cardiff primary threatened with closure
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Dec 6, 2018
Furious parents blast primary school for making pupils research whether Santa is real
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Dec 5, 2018
Children as young as nine asked if Santa is real for homework sparking outrage from parents
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Dec 5, 2018
Furious parents slam primary school for making pupils debate whether Santa is real
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Dec 5, 2018
Children left 'traumatised' after teachers staged 'elf murder' in class
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Dec 5, 2018
Children as young as nine are asked 'is Santa real?' for homework sparking furious parents to accuse headteacher of 'taking away magic of Christmas'
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Dec 5, 2018
Headteacher leaves primary school after tests investigation
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Dec 4, 2018
'Shortcomings' in half of Welsh secondary schools
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Dec 4, 2018
Dad arrested for trying to take his ‘bullied son’ out of primary school
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Dec 4, 2018
The worrying verdict of Wales' top school's watchdog chief on the nation's teaching
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Dec 4, 2018
Wales: Parents queue from 4am in freezing weather to get children breakfast club places
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Dec 3, 2018
Fifteen children 'stabbed with needle' by fellow pupil at school in Wales
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Dec 3, 2018
Investigative science lesson plans for Northern Ireland pupils based on TIMSS 2015
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Dec 3, 2018
School closed after 60 pupils and 5 staff stricken by mystery illness
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Dec 3, 2018
Primary school abolishes written homework because it is causing too much stress for pupils (and teachers)
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Nov 29, 2018
Primary school bans homework because kids find it too 'stressful'
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Nov 29, 2018
‘Confidence crisis’ stops young girls doing sport
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Nov 29, 2018
Why are more primary schools under the spotlight for exam cheating?
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Nov 28, 2018
599 primary schools investigated for cheating
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Nov 28, 2018
Number of primary schools investigated for cheating during exams rises to almost 600
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Nov 28, 2018
Primary school scraps homework for pupils over fears it causes too much stress
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Nov 28, 2018
286 Northern Ireland primary school children suspended in 2016-17
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Nov 28, 2018
Number of schools investigated over SATs maladministration rises to almost 600
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Nov 27, 2018
Pupil behaviour getting worse, say most teachers
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Nov 26, 2018
The earlier we educate children about what it means to be LGBT the better
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Nov 24, 2018
Kids should be warned about porn at eight and taught about masturbation at 14, lingerie CEO says
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Nov 23, 2018
Top 20 English state primary schools revealed
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Nov 23, 2018
Let kids climb trees instead of just doing maths homework, claims Education Secretary
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Nov 23, 2018
Children's bucket list that inspired new Education Secretary
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Nov 22, 2018
Parents of girl abused by boys win payout
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Nov 22, 2018
Parents of girl, six, who was sexually abused by fellow pupils given payout
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Nov 21, 2018
London parent threatens to sue school for trying to 'indoctrinate' son with 'gay pride parade'
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Nov 21, 2018
Payout over schoolboys' sex assaults on girl, 6
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Nov 21, 2018
Christian parents sue London primary school over 'Gay Pride Parade' after son was forced to take part in an event 'that goes against their beliefs'
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Nov 21, 2018
Boys overtake girls in maths by age seven, study of 1.5 million primary school tests finds
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Nov 21, 2018
Summer-borns still struggle in year 6, and 3 other findings from primary schools test results analysis
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Nov 21, 2018
Summer-born pupils disadvantaged throughout primary school – study
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Nov 21, 2018
Legal threat over South Norwood primary school’s pride parade
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Nov 21, 2018
Christian parent threatens legal action over school's 'gay pride parade'
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Nov 20, 2018
Sugar tax revenue helps tackle childhood obesity
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Nov 20, 2018
Almost half a million books gifted to primary 1 to 3 pupils for Book Week Scotland
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Nov 20, 2018
Flakefleet Primary School has just been named the happiest in the UK
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Nov 20, 2018
Scotland: Half a million books gifted to primary pupils
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Nov 20, 2018
Starting early – the importance of career-related learning in primary school
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Nov 15, 2018
Girl, 10, attempted suicide after ‘months of bullying’
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Nov 15, 2018
Ireland: Locals say no to ‘creeping’ Dublin primary school expansion
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Nov 15, 2018
What is the International Baccalaureate and how can it work in my school?
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Nov 14, 2018
More primary schools could scrap homework – a former classroom teacher’s view
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Nov 14, 2018
Mum of schoolgirl who attempted suicide before her 10th birthday shares heartbreaking photos
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Nov 14, 2018
Scotland: Fun with robots set to build compassion for animals
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Nov 14, 2018
Ireland: Parents say no to drug injecting centre
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Nov 14, 2018
English primary schoolchildren face times tables tests
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Nov 13, 2018
Primary school children should be taught about what it means to be LGBT+, doctors say
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Nov 13, 2018
Primary school children should be taught terms lesbian, gay and bisexual, claim experts
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Nov 13, 2018
'Tinkering' children make robots, planes and catapults
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Nov 13, 2018
Key stage 2 national curriculum test review outcomes: 2018
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Nov 12, 2018
Scotland: Boy who helped save mother’s life backs first aid in schools campaign
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Nov 12, 2018
Sex education plans risk 'ghettoising' religion, Church of England warns
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Nov 8, 2018
Head teachers should not be allowed to expel pupils because they will end up in gangs, says former Education Secretary Kenneth Baker
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Nov 2, 2018
'Wild West' Britain: Children as young as nine fuelling knife crime epidemic warn police
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Nov 2, 2018
Full-fibre primary schools and the Mancunian skills gap – 10 tech announcements you may have missed in the Budget
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Oct 31, 2018
Ireland: Travellers ‘fall through gaps’ in education
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Oct 30, 2018
Reading Planet to save UK schools money with new match funding initiative
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Oct 29, 2018
Leader comment: P1 tests must not be political football
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Oct 26, 2018
Scotland: Swinney caves in and orders review of P1 school tests
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Oct 26, 2018
Scotland: Swinney announces independent review of P1 testing
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Oct 25, 2018
Drive to ensure all children can swim by end of primary school
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Oct 25, 2018
PE and sport premium for primary schools
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Oct 25, 2018
National accolade awarded to Ashby Church of England Primary School
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Oct 25, 2018
Drive to ensure all children can swim by end of primary school
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Oct 25, 2018
Primary pupils facing five hours of homework a week
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Primary
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Oct 25, 2018
Children as young as seven suffer effects of discrimination
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Oct 23, 2018
Wales: Parents slam primary school over ‘terrible’ unisex toilets and tell pupils to come home to use the loo
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Oct 23, 2018
Wales: Parents tell kids to come home for a wee because of 'terrible' school toilets in new £30million building
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Wales
Primary
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Oct 22, 2018
Scotland takes on the Worrinots
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Oct 22, 2018
Isolation rooms: How swathes of schools are removing pupils from their classrooms
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Oct 19, 2018
Ireland: Don’t deport Irish pupil, Harris urges
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Oct 19, 2018
County Durham pupil ‘makes world bigger’ to win national digital challenge
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Primary
Awards
Oct 18, 2018
Members of the Royal Warrant Holders Association inspire primary school children
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Primary
Careers
Oct 17, 2018
Effective programmes in primary maths
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Maths
Primary
Oct 16, 2018
Supporting pupils in primary school may help keep them in education
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Secondary
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Oct 16, 2018
David Bowie’s primary school investigated for teacher cheating and bullying culture
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Oct 13, 2018
Minister’s £340k free schools flop revealed
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Primary
Oct 12, 2018
The Royal British Legion is bringing the Thank You movement into the classroom
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Primary
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Oct 11, 2018
Childhood obesity in primary schools is a growing problem
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Primary
Oct 11, 2018
Parents appeal to John Swinney for help after flooding at island primary
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Oct 10, 2018
Scotland: Primary school pupils to get sex consent lessons under SNP plan
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Oct 10, 2018
BBC Children in Need and Twinkl send free Pudsey storybook to primary schools
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Primary
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Oct 9, 2018
Children made to cycle at their desks to combat obesity
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Oct 3, 2018
School installs pedals under pupils' desks to help obese children lose weight
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Primary
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Oct 3, 2018
English hubs: list of primary schools
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English hubs
Primary
Oct 2, 2018
NEU workload survey: DfE and Ofsted need to do much more to reduce teacher workload
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Oct 2, 2018
World Space Week: Primary pupils reach for the stars in UK space challenge
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Space
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Primary
Oct 1, 2018
The big Picture - Look and learn
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BookTrust
Books
Primary
Reading
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Oct 1, 2018
Backlash to school's 'reward system' offering free drinks and 'VIP seats' assembly seats to parents who volunteer the most
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Primary
Volunteers
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Sep 28, 2018
The Scottish community that built its own school
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Rural schools
Sep 28, 2018
Headteacher forced to axe school day because there's not enough cash to open five days a week
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Primary
Sep 27, 2018
More children on track to be fluent readers in primary school
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Reading
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Sep 27, 2018
Homework at 7 is a joke, says comic Rob Delaney
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Sep 27, 2018
Wellcome celebrates Kates Hill Community Primary School for science success in the classroom
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Primary
Science
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Sep 25, 2018
Develop the critical use of evidence in geography and science
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Primary
Secondary
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Sep 21, 2018
Funding cut in fight against child obesity
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Primary
Sep 21, 2018
School’s mini ‘Globe’ was not to be
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Shakespeare
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Sep 21, 2018
Parents' fury at new school rule that left children 'too traumatised to go to class'
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Primary
Sep 20, 2018
The four new primary schools that opened in Cardiff this term
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Primary
New schools
Wales
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Sep 19, 2018
Premier League players head back to school to take part in Premier League Primary Stars PE lessons
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Football
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Sep 19, 2018
Scotland: John Swinney told to ‘listen’ and scrap P1 tests
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Sep 19, 2018
Smile, pupils! You’re about to become a work of art
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Art
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Sep 19, 2018
Scotland: Demo of P1 tests will allow 'informed debate' - Swinney
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Sep 18, 2018
Standardised assessments ‘help teachers avoid mistakes’ says expert
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Sep 17, 2018
Schoolboy, nine, 'humiliated' in front of classmates after 'being told to get hair cut during assembly'
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Sep 17, 2018
Scotland: I was bullied at primary school, Sturgeon says
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Sep 14, 2018
I was bullied at school, admits First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
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Sep 13, 2018
Norovirus outbreak at Exeter schools as 45 pupils are sent home with vomiting bug
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Sep 13, 2018
Wales: Boy dies in hospital after being found unconscious at Llanelli school
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Sep 12, 2018
The words you'd love to hear your children say - but never do
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Sep 10, 2018
Pupils 'being double tested' in quarter of councils
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Sep 6, 2018
Angela Rayner: Infant class sizes are ‘unsustainable’
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Sep 6, 2018
Overcrowding doubles for primary pupils
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Sep 6, 2018
Scotland: Last-ditch appeal by Swinney to save P1 tests
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Sep 6, 2018
Number of primary school kids in super-sized classes of 30 have doubled in the last seven years
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Sep 5, 2018
John Swinney apologises for `misleading´ P1 tests letter
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Sep 5, 2018
Primary school standards continue to rise
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Sep 4, 2018
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Sep 4, 2018
DfE and NFER on baseline testing: Do they know what they do?
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Sep 4, 2018
Four-year-old referred to specialist unit after killing pair of kittens
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Sep 4, 2018
Primary schools urged to sign up for NSPCC ‘Speak out. Stay safe.’ visit to keep children safe from harm
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Sep 3, 2018
Primary school kids are set to benefit from a reading and writing ‘blitz’ in new school year
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Sep 2, 2018
Primary pupils harassed with naked adult images
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Aug 30, 2018
Pupils aged 5 sent to referral unit where gang stabbed boy
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Aug 30, 2018
A child in every classroom has received a naked image
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Aug 30, 2018
One child in every primary school classroom has received a nude image from an adult
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Aug 30, 2018
Shake-up for controversial primary school tests after anger from parents and teachers
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Aug 29, 2018
Dozens of five-year-old pupils excluded for bad behaviour
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Aug 29, 2018
Anger after parents told they can't withdraw pupils from school tests
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Aug 24, 2018
Testing analysis: When 'exceptional circumstances’ doesn't mean what you think
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Aug 24, 2018
When parents fail they need educating too | Philip Collins
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Aug 24, 2018
Take part in the Voice Box joke competition and raise the confidence of children and young people in your school
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Aug 22, 2018
One of the UK’s best teachers found in Sussex
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Aug 16, 2018
National campaign urges parents to withdraw children from controversial P1 tests
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Aug 15, 2018
Analysis: John Swinney between a rock and a hard place on P1 testing
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Aug 15, 2018
2018 primary performance tables: three-year averages to be included
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Aug 14, 2018
Union calls for P1 assessments to be scrapped as guidelines breached
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Aug 13, 2018
P1 testing rollout was a mess, say one-third of parents
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Aug 13, 2018
Data literacy among governors and teachers needs improvement
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Aug 10, 2018
Primary school tests pointless according to teachers
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Aug 7, 2018
John Swinney: Primary one testing should be ‘fun and enjoyable’
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Aug 7, 2018
John Swinney: Controversial school tests 'should be fun'
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Aug 7, 2018
'Take your fingers out of your ears!' SNP told to axe school tests for five-year-olds
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Aug 7, 2018
Testing five-year-olds is not child’s play | Lesley Riddoch
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Aug 6, 2018
Scotland: Five-year-olds to choose their gender
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Aug 6, 2018
Ireland: Class sizes rising despite influx of new teachers
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Aug 6, 2018
Scotland: Teachers prepare to boycott ‘cruel’ compulsory tests for five‑year‑olds
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Aug 3, 2018
Call to abolish tests that leave P1s ‘shaking’
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Aug 2, 2018
Nicola Sturgeon’s flagship new tests blasted as ‘cruel’ by hundreds of teachers
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Aug 2, 2018
Scots primary one pupils left crying by ‘cruel’ national testing
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Aug 2, 2018
School tests for five-year-olds leave pupils 'shaking and crying'
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Aug 2, 2018
Scotland: John Swinney urged to abandon ‘cruel nonsense’ of tests for five-year-olds
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Aug 2, 2018
Analyse School Performance (ASP) – accessing the service and latest update
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Jul 30, 2018
12 organisations shunned baseline bid
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Jul 30, 2018
It’s worse than Carillion: our outsourced schools are leaving parents frozen out | Aditya Chakrabortty
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Jul 30, 2018
Parents threaten to pull children out of primary school as sex offenders set to be housed in open prison across the road
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Jul 26, 2018
School blasted after pupils walk five laps of field on hottest day of year - to show solidarity with refugees
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Jul 26, 2018
Primary school criticised for ‘refugee walk’ in 33C
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Jul 26, 2018
Scots school head quits after a manager 'snooped on her' in a blue badge parking dispute
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Jul 24, 2018
Record numbers are classed as 'severely obese' by the age of 11 as figure increases by 28 per cent in a decade
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Jul 24, 2018
Record number of severely obese children
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Jul 24, 2018
One child in every 25 in final year of primary school is acutely obese
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Jul 24, 2018
Childhood obesity hits record level
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Jul 24, 2018
Headteacher at Britain’s ‘best school’ speaks out after SATs exam results are voided after paper was opened early
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Jul 23, 2018
Test results annulled at ‘school of the year’
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Jul 23, 2018
Broadford Primary School has SATs results annulled
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Jul 22, 2018
Curriculum support resources in schools
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Jul 21, 2018
Capita admitted SIMS bug on day it was handed £109m primary testing contract
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Jul 20, 2018
Saying goodbye to your child’s primary school? I never knew how much I’d miss it | Kay Holmes
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Jul 20, 2018
School club has parents queuing from 3am
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Jul 20, 2018
Girl’s tale captures autism to perfection
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Jul 20, 2018
Class warfare: More than 130 desperate parents with chairs and flasks of tea queue from 3AM in battle to bag a slot for their children at their primary school's breakfast club
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Jul 19, 2018
Primary school threatens to ‘name and shame’ parents who claim they can’t afford to pay for kids’ school dinners
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Jul 19, 2018
England schools to teach new relationship and health education
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Jul 19, 2018
PSHE Association welcomes ‘major step’ from government towards better PSHE for all
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Jul 19, 2018
Mum who ran school PTA stole £4,000 children had raised at cake sales
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Jul 19, 2018
New relationships and health education in schools
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Jul 19, 2018
School abolishes marking pupils’ work in favour of a 15-minute chat
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Jul 19, 2018
Primary school pupils will learn about gay relationships, mental health and exercise under new government guidelines
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Jul 19, 2018
Nanny state to teach pupils how to avoid biscuits to tackle rising childhood obesity
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Jul 19, 2018
Pupils aged 4 will learn how to beat depression
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Jul 19, 2018
Heads blame school cuts as exclusions pass 40 a day
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Jul 19, 2018
Ofsted report sparks obesity row
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Jul 18, 2018
Obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools
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Jul 18, 2018
Schools not ‘silver bullet’ to tackling childhood obesity
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Jul 18, 2018
Schools should stop telling parents how to raise their children, Ofsted report says
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Jul 18, 2018
School bans children with poor attendance from having ice cream treat
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Jul 17, 2018
Mum of autistic boy slams school for 'abusive' voicemail
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Jul 17, 2018
Make your world bigger: Digital challenge to keep pupils learning this summer
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Jul 17, 2018
Children's books 'need ethnic minority characters'
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Jul 17, 2018
Heartwarming moment 4 school boys 'rig' their race so they cross at same time
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Jul 17, 2018
Secondary academies testing primary pupils on summer visiting days
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Jul 17, 2018
Only 1% of children's books have BAME main characters – UK study
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Jul 17, 2018
Children’s books must have more black characters, Arts Council funded report says
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Jul 17, 2018
Baseline designs for schools
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Jul 16, 2018
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Jul 16, 2018
Need to know: Pupil numbers
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Jul 16, 2018
Reward Foundation gives primary school pupils lessons on pornography risks
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Jul 16, 2018
Schoolchildren as young as four to be taught sex consent lessons
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Jul 15, 2018
A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
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Jul 13, 2018
Physically active learning - key research and resources
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Jul 13, 2018
Trials of controversial baseline checks to start in September
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Jul 11, 2018
Should a primary school head really have asked pupils as young as four to go on an LGBT Pride march?
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Jul 11, 2018
Teacher concerns over tough testing as primary school students struggle to meet grade requirements
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Jul 11, 2018
Don’t stress about Sats, urges minister
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Jul 11, 2018
National Education Union comments on SATs Results (Key Stage 2)
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Jul 10, 2018
More pupils in England reach expected standard at Key Stage 2
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Jul 10, 2018
SATs do not benefit children’s learning and are bad for their well-being – NEU survey
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Jul 9, 2018
Ofsted's July inspection update includes clarification on 'tracking' primary subjects
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Jul 9, 2018
New BERA report pours scorn on proposed Reception Baseline Assessment in England
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Jul 9, 2018
How to prepare students for Sats?
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Jul 9, 2018
Wellbeing classes transform London school
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Jul 5, 2018
Children and Families Minister addresses ADCS conference
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Jul 5, 2018
Education Secretary makes inaugural speech to children's services sector
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Jul 5, 2018
Give five-year-olds careers lessons, say teachers
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Jul 5, 2018
New survey highlights the importance of Introducing children to the world of work at an early age
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Jul 5, 2018
The primary school that abolished marking
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Jul 4, 2018
Girl’s death from asthma linked to car pollution
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Jul 4, 2018
Pride event at London school axed after parents threaten protest
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Jul 3, 2018
Coping with the end of primary school
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Jul 3, 2018
Head teacher barred over phone porn
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Jul 2, 2018
On track: The junior school that has run 13,965km in two years
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Jul 2, 2018
Super-sized classes at highest level on record
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Jun 28, 2018
Teach primary school pupils about finance, say City firms
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Jun 28, 2018
'I'm worth it', says £240k academy boss
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Jun 22, 2018
Scotland: Scalding of children at Fife school may lead to legal action
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Jun 21, 2018
School prize has parents bemused
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Jun 21, 2018
Meet the schoolboy storyteller
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Jun 20, 2018
These dark children's stories provide valuable life lessons that kids need more than ever
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Jun 20, 2018
Ireland: Schools are struggling to ease pupils’ mental stress
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Jun 20, 2018
Testing children gives a poor measure of ability
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Jun 19, 2018
Primary school children affected by hygiene poverty, charity finds
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Jun 19, 2018
Foreign Secretary & Naomi Campbell discuss girls' education
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Jun 15, 2018
Parents ‘in tears’ as cash-strapped primary school begs families to donate toilet roll
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Jun 15, 2018
Pushy parents in the school egg-and-spoon race seem absurd. But my heart burst with pride when our boys did well
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Jun 15, 2018
Cry for help! School in Theresa May’s constituency begging for toilet rolls from parents
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Jun 14, 2018
Sweating the small stuff
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Jun 14, 2018
Artist’s design inspires new school building
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Jun 13, 2018
Physical education external provision in Irish primary schools
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Jun 13, 2018
Scotland: Drug comments sent to primary school pupils on education app
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Jun 13, 2018
Ireland: Start sex education from three, says expert
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Jun 13, 2018
Raising literacy levels of targeted school pupils
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Jun 12, 2018
Primary heads tell parents: Keep your children away from violent Fortnite game
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Jun 12, 2018
Girl, 9, in rehab for Fortnite addiction after becoming so hooked she wet herself to keep playing
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Jun 11, 2018
Primary school bans children, teachers and visitors from wearing shoes 'because it has calming effect'
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Jun 8, 2018
Teachers attack blanket testing plan for primary pupils
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Jun 7, 2018
What’s the difference between grammar, private and state education and what is Theresa May’s free school expansion?
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Jun 5, 2018
What is Ofsted, how do school inspection reports work and what does the ratings system mean?
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Jun 5, 2018
Pupils ‘upset or numbed’ by too many memorial silences
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Jun 5, 2018
Children to meet leading authors at book jamboree
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Jun 4, 2018
Scotland: Green light for teacher who photographed undressed boy
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Jun 1, 2018
Increase in pupils who can't wipe their own bottoms
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May 30, 2018
One million hours of lessons lost to kids not toilet trained at home
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May 30, 2018
Primary school teachers spend more than a million hours a year toilet-training their students, researchers say
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May 30, 2018
Primary teachers losing up to 1 million hours in lesson time showing children how to use the lavatory
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May 30, 2018
Primary teachers spend hours cleaning up children after they use the toilet
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May 30, 2018
NAHT rejects Bold Beginnings approach to early years learning
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May 29, 2018
Daily roundup 29 May: Child obesity, gender, and missing refugees
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May 29, 2018
More than 20,000 Year 6 pupils 'severely obese'
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May 29, 2018
Tens of thousands of children become severely obese in primary school, figures show
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May 29, 2018
Tenfold rise in primary pupil obesity
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May 29, 2018
Leader comment: Testing P1 pupils must be stopped if it is ‘abuse’
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May 24, 2018
Scotland: Tests for five-year-olds will change, as many struggle
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May 24, 2018
Youngsters on track for bright futures with Virgin
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May 23, 2018
New research helps to de-gender the teaching profession
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May 23, 2018
"You wouldn't even do it to a dog!": Disgusted mum claims son, 11, was made to sit exams in cupboard
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May 22, 2018
Little girl writes the most adorable motivational note to herself ahead of SATs
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May 22, 2018
'Sats are forcing schools to behave immorally'
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May 20, 2018
Crawford Public School host second Primary Futures Australia event
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May 18, 2018
Daily roundup 18 May: Summer-born children, GP appointments, and royal wedding
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May 18, 2018
Scotland: Curriculum change needs a different school of thought
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May 18, 2018
Chances of success at Key Stage 4, part two
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May 17, 2018
Nearly a quarter of five-year-olds starting primary school in England have tooth decay, figures reveal
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May 15, 2018
'These tests only measure a little bit of you' – the teachers' letters that go viral
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May 15, 2018
'Ridiculous' primary school homework aimed at 8-year-olds has mums bewildered at how hard it is
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May 14, 2018
Sats pressure in primaries is too much, say parents
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May 14, 2018
Value added measures in performance tables: A recap of the main issues for primary schools
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May 14, 2018
How to lose the Sats stress
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May 10, 2018
'Sats are inhumane – scrap them now'
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May 9, 2018
Streaming in primary and secondary schools ‘enshrines disadvantage’
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May 8, 2018
Top brass: Defying budget cuts to save the school band
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May 8, 2018
Weighing pupils cuts obesity in Manchester trial
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May 8, 2018
The Quick Q&A: How to tackle the children who just won’t listen
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May 7, 2018
Primary Futures launches in Australia
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Australia
May 4, 2018
Building Research in Primary Schools (BRiPS)
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May 4, 2018
Challenging the evidence on the new baseline test in reception
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May 4, 2018
Shrewsbury pupils get bread and water for forgetting dinner money
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May 4, 2018
How teachers are fighting to teach young students about mental health in primary schools
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May 4, 2018
Schools could be forced to weigh pupils for Ofsted obesity checks
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May 3, 2018
Parents told that sick children must sit all Sats exams as calls for boycott grow
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May 2, 2018
Middle schools defend themselves as councils ditch three-tier model
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May 2, 2018
Girls in Space: King’s High link-up with international space station
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May 2, 2018
Why we need more male primary school teachers: 'Kids need to know men care about education as much as football'
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May 2, 2018
Thirsk schoolboys found after climbing fence
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May 2, 2018
Learn a language by ten or it may be too late
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Primary
May 1, 2018
Complete NATRE's survey to improve support and resources for RE in primary schools
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May 1, 2018
40 children’s books for struggling and reluctant readers
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May 1, 2018
School drops plans for early Friday closure after furious backlash from parents
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Apr 30, 2018
Parents to receive advice on teaching nursery rhymes in bid to close disadvantaged children's word gap
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Apr 30, 2018
Primary drops plan to close on Friday afternoons to avoid teacher 'burnout'
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Apr 30, 2018
Calling East London Schools! Apply for free help with parental engagement
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Apr 30, 2018
The top-ranking school where the kids decide what they learn
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Apr 30, 2018
Primary school's Friday lunchtime closure plan scrapped
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Apr 30, 2018
Scotland: Schools can learn a lesson from the French
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Apr 30, 2018
Should primary pupils get mental health counselling?
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Apr 27, 2018
Teacher training applicants down by 15 per cent
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Apr 26, 2018
'Sats don't prepare pupils for secondary school. So what's their purpose? To impress Ofsted?'
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Apr 26, 2018
School could close early to ease workload
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Apr 26, 2018
Benefits of mental health counselling in primary schools 'worth six times the cost'
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Apr 26, 2018
School sex abuse: 'My son was raped on a play date'
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Apr 26, 2018
Israeli school for both Jews and Arabs
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Apr 26, 2018
Bank economist calls for counselling for primary school pupils
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Apr 26, 2018
Primary school mental health counselling may help economy, study says
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Apr 26, 2018
'Testing has become like crack cocaine to the government'
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Apr 25, 2018
'If enough parents "home educated" their children in Sats week, it could finish off the tests'
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Apr 25, 2018
'Meat Free Monday' plan for Edinburgh primary schools comes under fire
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Apr 24, 2018
Four books to get primary pupils thinking
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Apr 23, 2018
'The baseline must be drawn here – this far, no further'
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Apr 23, 2018
Parents 'forced' to send girls to £10k school because they could not get offers near home
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Apr 23, 2018
How does it feel to be in the bottom group? A new project investigates
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Apr 23, 2018
School lunches: All Edinburgh primary schools to partake in Meat Free Mondays
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Apr 23, 2018
Sports students teach 4,000 Cheshire schoolkids how to play rugby
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Apr 23, 2018
Millions of UK children worry about air pollution near school
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Apr 23, 2018
Plans to expand primary school in worst borough for pupil places
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Apr 21, 2018
Primary school headteacher quits over government's curriculum reforms with emotional letter
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Apr 20, 2018
Testing P1 pupils causes “stress and anxiety”
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Apr 20, 2018
Ireland: Primary school bans smartphones and social media to ‘protect’ pupils
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Apr 20, 2018
138 children in Cardiff didn't get any of the primary school places they applied for
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Apr 19, 2018
More children are struggling with vocabulary, teachers say
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Apr 19, 2018
Teachers in UK report growing 'vocabulary deficiency'
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Apr 19, 2018
Narrow vocabulary 'hits pupils' grades'
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Apr 19, 2018
Difficult questions about some schools’ Key Stage 2 results
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Apr 17, 2018
Progress 8 could be undermined by rogue primary test scores
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Apr 17, 2018
School children quiz Nasa astronaut
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Apr 17, 2018
Almost a third of pupils missed out on their first choice of primary school in some areas
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Apr 17, 2018
Parents claim divorce to win school places
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Apr 17, 2018
Primary school places revealed today - but should you appeal if your child missed out?
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Apr 16, 2018
Enough of the portacabin classrooms and overwhelmed teachers! We must stop overcrowding primary classes and start building more schools
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Apr 16, 2018
Primary school offer day 2018: More children allocated first choice school due to Brexit, London councils say
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Apr 16, 2018
Thousands of children miss out on preferred primary school
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Apr 16, 2018
Primary school admissions 2018 UK: Here's what to do if your child does not get their first choice place
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Apr 16, 2018
Shortage of places at Bryntirion School has a 'devastating' effect on children
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Apr 16, 2018
Primary School Places Day - but are parents forgetting air quality?
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Apr 16, 2018
Austria plans to ban headscarfs for children in nursery and primary schools 'so they are free to integrate'
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Apr 16, 2018
Primary school places - not got what you wanted?
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Apr 16, 2018
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Apr 16, 2018
Heads call for end to 'haphazard' school places system
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Apr 16, 2018
Primary school admissions 2018: When do you find out primary school places?
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Apr 16, 2018
Need to know: National Primary School Offer Day
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Apr 16, 2018
Parents are 'faking break-ups’ to get their children into top schools, an expert has warned
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Apr 16, 2018
Schoolgirls younger than 12 getting contraceptive implants on NHS
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Apr 16, 2018
Many parents face disappointment over primary school places
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Four in ten infants starting primary not ‘school ready’ in some areas
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Apr 14, 2018
A Head Teacher’s experience of her school’s first Primary Futures event
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Apr 13, 2018
Upset at primary school offer? Keep mum or your child may feel like they’re going to jail
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Apr 13, 2018
Parents going to 'extraordinary lengths' to secure first-choice primary school, poll finds
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Apr 13, 2018
Primary school offer day 2018: how to appeal a decision
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Apr 13, 2018
Teaching unions call for action as Edinburgh assault cases soar
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Apr 12, 2018
Upset at primary school offer? Keep mum or your child may feel like they’re going to jail
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Apr 11, 2018
New measure for fairer recording of primary school performance
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Apr 11, 2018
ASCL comment on Reception baseline assessment
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Apr 11, 2018
Daily roundup 11 April: Loneliness, prosthetics, and baseline assessments
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Apr 11, 2018
More Than A Score coalition comments on baseline announcement
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Apr 11, 2018
Government unveils controversial plans for testing four-year-olds
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Apr 11, 2018
NFER wins contract for controversial Baseline assessment
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Apr 11, 2018
NFER to deliver reception baseline test
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Apr 11, 2018
Primaries need more resources to help counter radicalisation, says Prevent official
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Apr 11, 2018
Inspiring Wakefield continues to broaden children’s horizons
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Apr 10, 2018
Why new tests will help teachers give extra support to those pupils that need it
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Apr 10, 2018
Schools struggling to provide SEND support
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Apr 10, 2018
School pressures 'making pupils suicidal’
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Apr 10, 2018
Vast majority of teachers say DfE effort to cut workload has had no impact
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Apr 9, 2018
Smartphone six‑year‑olds are glued to the screen
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Apr 9, 2018
Japanese children get lessons in how to love their country
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Apr 9, 2018
Thousands of parents consider withdrawing primary school children from Sats exams over mental health concerns
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Apr 8, 2018
We need to find 47,000 extra secondary teachers by 2024
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Apr 6, 2018
'Crumbling buildings, spiralling costs, corner cutting and relentless pressure': a message to ministers on school funding
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Apr 5, 2018
Schools told 'put pupil safety ahead of grades' after absent London pupil found dead next to mother
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Apr 5, 2018
Free schools meals changes: 210,000 pupils win; 160,000 lose
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Apr 5, 2018
Quarter of children in north Wales overweight or obese
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Apr 5, 2018
SNP fail over Scotland's supersized classes
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Apr 5, 2018
New special free schools get go-ahead from DfE
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Apr 4, 2018
Teachers vote in favour of opposing the new Baseline
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Apr 3, 2018
Union plans to scupper national tests for 4-year-olds
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Apr 3, 2018
Rural schools 'should have protected status'
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Apr 3, 2018
US research: how ESSA supports social and emotional learning
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Apr 3, 2018
How teachers plan to 'smash' primary testing
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Apr 3, 2018
Achieving then failing in primary school is a sign of future teenage depression
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Apr 3, 2018
Scotland: Widespread failures led to collapse of Edinburgh primary school wall
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Apr 3, 2018
Ireland: Schools will teach pupils meaning of sex consent
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Teachers ‘headbutted, spat at and have eyes gouged by kids as young as four’
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Apr 3, 2018
Teachers kicked, bitten, spat and sworn at up to 7 times a day amid surge in violence from pupils
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Apr 2, 2018
Number of armed guards at US schools is rising, study finds
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Mar 29, 2018
Kevin Courtney calls for 'profound change' in the way we assess primary children
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Mar 29, 2018
Lincolnshire academy threatened with closure for poor KS2 results
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Mar 29, 2018
Mixing pupils by race leads to more interracial marriages, finds research
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Mar 29, 2018
Schools in lockdown over email threats
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Mar 29, 2018
Knife boy, 8, told to write letter to child he threatened
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Mar 29, 2018
Teenager arrested after series of hoax threats made to schools across the UK
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Mar 29, 2018
Police confirm email containing threat to pupils was a hoax
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Mar 28, 2018
Parents flushed with anger over primary school's decision to remove loo roll from kids' toilets
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Mar 28, 2018
School staff more satisfied with their jobs than employees in other workplaces, study reveals
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Mar 28, 2018
Why do pupils who went to infant and first schools appear to underperform at Key Stage 4?
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Mar 28, 2018
Schools across country on lockdown after email says children will be 'shot in the street'
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Mar 28, 2018
Nine-year-old charged for taking knife into Aberdeenshire school
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Mar 28, 2018
Looked-after children are five times more likely to be temporarily excluded, and six other figures released today
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Mar 28, 2018
France to lower school starting age from six to three
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Mar 27, 2018
Massive response to physical activity programme
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Mar 27, 2018
Improving mathematics in key stages two and three
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Mar 27, 2018
In Yemen, another generation is being lost to conflict
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Mar 27, 2018
Depression risk for pupils who fall behind aged 11
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Mar 27, 2018
'The power of information - sex education helps cut teen pregnancy', says Dr Miriam Stoppard
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Mar 26, 2018
Lizzy Yarnold: How good PE teachers put me on track to Olympic glory
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Mar 26, 2018
Girls' schools are the best at preparing young women for life, claims head
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Mar 26, 2018
Children's commissioner: Northern pupils face double whammy of 'poor' schools and deprivation
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Mar 26, 2018
Children in the north of England ‘left behind’ at school
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Mar 26, 2018
Calculators can help boost children’s maths skills, research suggests
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Mar 23, 2018
What maths teachers need to know about pupils using calculators
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Mar 23, 2018
What is the best way to close the attainment gap?
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Mar 23, 2018
Calculators 'a plus' for young mathematicians after all
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Mar 23, 2018
Science is 'dying' in primary schools, teachers warn
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Mar 23, 2018
Calculators can boost maths skills, research finds
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Mar 23, 2018
EEF publishes new review of evidence on Maths teaching
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Mar 22, 2018
Primary heads in Scotland 'forced to work in nurseries to plug staffing gaps'
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Mar 22, 2018
Scotland: Glasgow schools to encourage cycling with bike libraries
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Mar 22, 2018
Call for litter picking to be in national curriculum is rubbished
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Mar 21, 2018
Tory peer: Make litter picking compulsory for primary school pupils who could then pass the skills on to their parents
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Mar 21, 2018
‘It was heartbreaking’: Family wins tribunal after special needs pupil excluded
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Mar 20, 2018
Funding boost to give more children healthy start to the day
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Mar 19, 2018
Growing numbers of secondary schools ‘in deficit’
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Mar 19, 2018
More than a third of parents do not think homework is helpful for primary school children, report finds
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Mar 19, 2018
City to set up school 'bike libraries' to encourage cycling
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Mar 19, 2018
92 schools are waiting for a sponsor, and 4 other things we learned at education questions
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Mar 19, 2018
Pupils as young as 7 to be consulted on Brexit
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Mar 19, 2018
Schools are on a funding tightrope. They will inevitably fall | Lola Okolosie
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Mar 19, 2018
Government sets aside £26 million to support breakfast clubs
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Mar 19, 2018
Funding to support breakfast clubs at schools
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Mar 19, 2018
Transforming education in Rwanda: Building Learning Foundations launch
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Mar 16, 2018
Comment on EPI report on Schools in Deficit
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Mar 16, 2018
Government to open new wave of alternative-provision free schools
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Mar 16, 2018
Schools need more money or they’ll have to start cutting staff
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Mar 16, 2018
Frank Mitchell: It’s essential that we get the country’s young bright sparks interested in engineering
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Mar 16, 2018
We may never prove reliability of inspection, warns Ofsted research chief
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Mar 16, 2018
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Mar 16, 2018
Number of secondary schools in deficit has 'trebled'
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Mar 16, 2018
Number of secondaries in deficit has trebled, report says
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Mar 16, 2018
Review launched into school exclusions amid 'inconsistencies' in education
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Mar 16, 2018
Proportion of English secondary schools in deficit almost trebles
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Mar 16, 2018
More than one in four secondary schools running at a loss, study finds
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Mar 16, 2018
Debt gap widens between LA schools and academies
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Mar 16, 2018
Cuts to drama teaching in schools are a scandal, says Lenny Henry
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Mar 15, 2018
'Outstanding' schools could be narrowing the curriculum, senior Ofsted official fears
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Mar 15, 2018
Academy put 'zero-tolerance' policy above pupil's education, tribunal finds
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Mar 15, 2018
Pupils at Oxgangs ordered to ‘stay indoors’ after roof damaged
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Mar 15, 2018
Rise in the number of full and over-capacity primary and secondary schools
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Mar 15, 2018
Ofsted grades from predecessor schools will now remain on new academies' records
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Mar 15, 2018
Religious groups unite to hit back at claims that their schools are divisive
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Mar 15, 2018
The changing role of children: should they have more chance to contribute outside of school?
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Mar 15, 2018
Secretary of State makes a commitment to stability: no new tests, no curriculum changes, no qualification reform in this Parliament
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Mar 14, 2018
Global: How technology can help us educate the 263m children in the world who currently are not in education
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Mar 14, 2018
MP calls for pupil premium to be extended to 18
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Mar 14, 2018
Life is fraught with danger. School playgrounds should be too | Tom Bennett
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Mar 14, 2018
Why does Ofsted pay an overwhelmingly female group of inspectors less than their colleagues?
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Mar 14, 2018
Textbooks 'pay for themselves' in four and a half minutes
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Mar 14, 2018
Tell us what you think about introducing children to the world of work in primary school
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Mar 13, 2018
Primary staff 'frustrated and angry' at lack of help to steer children from gangs
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Mar 13, 2018
Daily roundup 13 March: Celibacy, poverty, and age checks
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Mar 13, 2018
How to master KS2 maths SATs revision
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Mar 13, 2018
Schools should teach pupils the importance of avoiding sex before marriage, says Church of England
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Mar 13, 2018
Pupils should be taught in school that abstinence and celibacy are 'positive life choices', says Church of England
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Mar 12, 2018
Teach pupils the joy of sex, but celibacy too, says Church of England
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Mar 12, 2018
Sex education: Schools 'should promote celibacy', says Church of England
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Mar 12, 2018
Lack of places for pupils with mental health needs highlighted by DfE research
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Mar 12, 2018
Pupils should be taught that abstinence and celibacy are 'positive life choices', C of E says
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A lasting impact - 6 lessons from the evaluation of ABRA
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How stress passes from teachers to pupils 'like a contagion'
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Biggest academy trust, AET, set to give up more of its schools
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Boris Johnson sits cross-legged in the corner during surprise classroom visit
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Business leaders call for less rote learning in schools
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School business professional helps school expand places by 25%
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Is sex education compulsory in UK primary and secondary schools and are children taught about porn and sexting?
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Cut school autonomy to prevent bullying of headteachers, says Ofsted chief
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Mar 7, 2018
Teaching primary pupils to write is a creative act, says Costa prize-winning teacher
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Scottish school named UK Literacy School of the Year
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Superhead Matt Middlemore quits for sake of his children
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Duchess of Cambridge visits primary school putting emotional health top of the curriculum
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South Korea bans English up to third grade
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Best Evidence in Brief: Issue #157 - 6 March 2018
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The rise in home education – and eight other things we learned today about pupils outside mainstream schools
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National literacy award for primary where most teachers study children's literature at MA-level
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Banning teachers’ preferred method of baseline assessment will relieve 'burden', says minister
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Schools that don't take pupils back from alternative provision should not be rated 'outstanding', MPs told
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Classroom pay: ‘My male colleague was paid £7,000 more than me’
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Expanding teacher education places in Scotland amounts to 'fiddling while Rome burns', union warns
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Pupils vulnerable because change in mental-health services 'too slow', warn heads
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Start teaching children the real facts of life
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Teachers' union calls for primary school ‘judgements’ overhaul
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Research round-up 2 March 2018
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ASCL calls for overhaul of system for judging primary schools
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Hacking could cause you 'significant harm', Ofqual warns exam boards
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Japan: Tokyo pupils harassed in streets over Armani uniforms
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Born to fail? No. But working class children do need help to succeed
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'Why is the law forcing us to label 11-year-olds as failures?'
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'Scant' evidence that forced primary academisation works, say heads
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Schools cancel costumes amid growing backlash against World Book Day
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CSE review calls for government to overhaul secure protection system
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Don’t knock kids for rereading books. Encourage them to read, full stop | Andrew McCallum
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Manchester schools tsar condemns Education Endowment Foundation as 'dangerous'
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Scots secondary school pupils choosing same novels as under-12s
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Literacy fears as secondary pupils ‘read the same books’ as primary children
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Leader comment: Don’t be a literary wimp
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Set aside 15 minutes of dedicated reading time, secondary schools told
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GCSE pupils are spurning challenging books and reading novels aimed at 13-year-olds
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Harry Potter remains pupils' favourite
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Many GCSE pupils have reading level of a 13-year-old
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Commonwealth countries must ensure that each child has 12 years of quality education
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Your books turn teens into twits, David Walliams is told
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‘Deeply worrying’ Pupils aged 16 have reading age of only 13, experts warn
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Teenagers aren’t reading enough tough books – here’s why they should worry
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Leader: University tuition fees and the common good
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Newham council let St Stephen’s School down, Ofsted rules
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Ofsted condemns council for failing to back hijab ban school
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Feb 20, 2018
Times-tables are important, but the government’s latest test is a complete waste of time for schools
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Sats: New 'flexible' writing assessments to stay – despite teachers' concerns
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Ofsted: Hijab row school got ‘ineffective’ support from council
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Teachers at school in Newham that banned hijab were failed by council, say inspectors
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Number of 'inadequate' private schools continues to rise
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What teachers tapped this week #21 - 19th February 2018
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Times-tables are important, but the government’s latest test is a complete waste of time for schools
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Feb 19, 2018
I’ve never known my times tables. Frankly, who needs them? | Peter Bradshaw
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Feb 16, 2018
Children in areas with poor literacy 'have much shorter lives'
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Primary pupils taught creationism in science lessons at Kings Kids Christian School
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NAHT responds to call for evidence on PSHE and RSE
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Feb 15, 2018
Multiplication tables check trials to begin in schools
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Times tables tests to be trialled in primary schools
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Minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer times table question on TV
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Schools minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer 'what is 8 x 9?' on TV
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Feb 14, 2018
Daily roundup 14 February: Times tables, tax-free childcare, and Barry Bennell
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Trims for tales: The barbers offering children a free haircut in exchange for a story
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Schools minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer maths question on TV as he launches times tables tests
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Times-tables tests: What do schools need to know?
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Feb 14, 2018
The new times-tables tests will get no love from teachers
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Feb 14, 2018
To foster a love of art in children, we must teach it at primary school
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'Baby PISA' study to go ahead in autumn
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Schools minister refuses to take his own times tables check (video)
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Minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer times tables questions on Good Morning Britain and Sky as he launches new times tables policy
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Year 4 pupils in England to be tested on times tables
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Ministers to bring back compulsory times table tests for primary school children
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If the UK is to produce world class mathematicians, we must start with the basics
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Government trials times table checks for primary schools ahead of full roll-out
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Times table check trialled ahead of rollout
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Times-tables tests for 8 and 9-year-olds to start at 290 primary schools next month
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Government trials times tables test for eight-year-olds despite opposition from teacher unions and parents
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School trials of times tables check to begin in March
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Times table tests to be trialled in primary schools in March
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Feb 14, 2018
Times tables tests return for pupils, 8
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Feb 14, 2018
Children will sit mandatory times tables tests in Year 4, Nick Gibb announces
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National Numeracy responds to Government times table trials
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NEU comment on times tables trial
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One in three primary school children 'don't go to sleep until midnight' study claims
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Trainee teachers unable to spot signs of mental ill-health in pupils
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Sex-education campaigners lay out vision for effective curriculum
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PSHE and SRE should both be compulsory for all school children
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Yeovil’s St Michael’s Academy hit with financial notice to improve
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Raising literacy levels in overlooked school year groups
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Head fined for cocaine possession and drink-driving struggled with school pressures
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School diet and exercise regime failed to reduce pupils’ obesity
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EEF grant making: 5 charts showing the what, who, where, when and why
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Feb 7, 2018
Daily roundup 7 February: Language, mental health, and young carers
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Feb 7, 2018
Schoolgirls wearing a hijab is a path to extremism? Now that’s a leap | Samira Shackle
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Feb 6, 2018
Ireland: Pupils being failed by poor-quality Irish lessons
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Cambodia: British Embassy's new science magazine aims to promote STEM education
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Feb 5, 2018
Kenya: 'Dangerous proposal': campaigners condemn sex education plan
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Girl escaped falling concrete in Edinburgh school toilet
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Personalised learning starts to change teaching methods
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Shakespeare can boost language skills in nursery, says RSC education chief
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Feb 4, 2018
Primary MATs have the widest gender pay gap
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Long read: Do classrooms need standing desks?
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Global: Hundreds of millions of children in school but not learning
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Teaching leaders to address NQT conference
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Eight-year-old boy caught with knife in Aberdeen school
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PM to set out ambitious new approach to UK-China education
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Ofsted inspectors enter hijab row school
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Nearly half of primary children overweight in parts of the country
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Teacher Alexander Eldridge guilty of child sexual offences
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Jan 31, 2018
Ofsted forgets our four-year-olds are not GCSE apprentices | Michael Rosen
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Jan 30, 2018
London schools to be alerted on high air pollution days
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Primary headteachers embrace plans to 'empower' Scottish schools
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What Teachers Tapped This Week #18 – 29th January 2018
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Pupils offered mental health support for being sent to different school
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Scots pupils’ pirates message in bottle from 1980s washes up in Florida
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Jan 26, 2018
Diversity starts in schools – children need to see a wider range of careers
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Education Policy Institute report on free school meals
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Jan 24, 2018
Edtech full of 'wonders and snake oil', research chief claims
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Coding and biology competitions open
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Jan 24, 2018
The Pupil Premium: Fifteen lessons learned
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Jan 24, 2018
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Jan 24, 2018
Scotland: Angus council in U-turn over school meal debt threat
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Jan 24, 2018
The schools, colleges and nurseries highlighted for best practice in Wales
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Three days of strikes at Tonyrefail school
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Jan 23, 2018
15 key lessons learned in the EEF’s first six years
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Closing the attainment gap - new EEF report reveals stark challenge
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6 charts on the attainment gap
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Pupils taught well in Reception class do better in their GCSEs
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In times of austerity and budget cuts, it’s important to identify where money can do the most good in schools
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Five is too young to learn about knife crime. But schools need more support | Pat Green
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Jan 23, 2018
Children as young as three are self-harming, say teachers
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Jan 23, 2018
Scotland: No school meal for your child if bills not paid, parents in Arbroath warned
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Jan 23, 2018
£10 million pledge for outdoor learning not enough to make a difference, warn critics
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Jan 22, 2018
Children’s career aspirations limited by gender stereotypes and socio-economic background, report shows
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Jan 19, 2018
Daily roundup 19 January: Aspiration, child migrants, and poverty
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Global: Children draw their future job ambitions
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Jan 19, 2018
Global: What do children draw when asked about their future jobs?
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Damian Hinds: Children are being let down by depth and breadth of education
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Children now more likely to want to become YouTubers than actors
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Jan 19, 2018
Puberty is starting earlier for many children – sex education must catch up with this new reality
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Jan 18, 2018
Outrage over each new education policy does nothing but harm | Richard Russell
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Jan 18, 2018
Drive to provide equality of opportunity ‘must begin at primary school’
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Early years anger over Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report 'impossible to reconcile'
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Jan 17, 2018
Drawing the future - findings from the largest survey of primary children’s career aspirations
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Jan 17, 2018
Bold Beginnings: how NOT to write an Ofsted report
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Jan 17, 2018
Learning through play is plane easy | Letters
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Jan 16, 2018
Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn
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Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report is 'flawed' and should be scrapped, says open letter
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School ICT spending set to rise for first time in three years
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Jan 16, 2018
Ireland: Teachers cannot tell primary school pupils what a condom is
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Jan 16, 2018
Parents upset by school's new 'over the top' safety policy
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Jan 15, 2018
Britain's top state primary school bans Hijab for under-eights and calls for UK-wide rule
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Returning to school and work after the break
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Long read: The battle for Reception
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Jan 12, 2018
Scots schools sends unruly pupils back to primaries as punishment
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Jan 11, 2018
Professional development in science
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Justine Greening presses government to ensure sex education is taught in all schools
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Jan 11, 2018
Primary pupils who learn through play struggle with 'traditional' teaching later on
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Jan 11, 2018
Teachers warn learning through play can lead to pupil disruption
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Jan 11, 2018
Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 5
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Jan 10, 2018
Laid bare: The worrying influence of social media on year 7 pupils
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Jan 10, 2018
China: Dedicated boy's hair freezes after three mile trek to school in minus 9C arctic conditions
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Jan 10, 2018
A heartwarming pen-pal scheme has been set up between a primary school and a care home
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Best Evidence in Brief: the latest education research news from the Institute of Effective Education
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How should we talk about mental health in schools? Here’s what the experts say
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Australia: Teachers to undergo training to help students deal with depression and anxiety as part of $110million funding package to tackle mental health
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From Bach to Baby
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Being bold in 2018
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Build care homes by schools to mix generations
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The children aged ten who are addicted to social media
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School census 2017 to 2018: guide for schools and LAs
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Where internet safety is concerned, younger children should not be ‘left to their own devices’, says NAHT
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Call for maximum temperature in Scottish classrooms
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Keeping children safe in education and other current consultations
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Is this the most inspiring school in Britain?
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Canadian Gaelic teacher denied her dream job on Scottish island
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More funding is needed for mental health provision in schools, new research finds
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Can you solve these festive maths puzzles for 10-year-olds?
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Are classrooms calmer with a llama?
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New consultation on relationships education for four-year-olds
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Terror in the UK
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NAHT welcomes consultation on RSE and PSHE
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Professor aims to break link between disadvantage and low attainment for Manchester's pupils
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LGBT+ issues could be taught in school sex education for the first time in history
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Is sex education compulsory in UK primary and secondary schools and are children taught about porn and sexting?
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Should homework be set for the Christmas holiday?
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Education Secretary launches RSE call for evidence
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LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year
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Even letters to Santa go by email now, so why must students write exams with a pen? | Laura McInerney
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Primary school pupils could be taught about transgender and homosexual relationships in sex education revamp
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All primary pupils will be given classes on gay and transgender tolerance as part of new relationship lessons
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Government asks teachers to help make sex education relevant to the modern world
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Lessons in transgender issues for all primary pupils
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Experts called in to stop young pupils self-harming
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What teachers’ think about history teaching in schools
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A dialogue with Ofsted on the Bold Beginnings report
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One in five teachers denied cost-of-living pay rise
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Ireland: State Examinations Commission failed to budget for rise in pupils taking exams
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Schools should face fines for tactical off-rolling, children´s commissioner says
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Schools on Ofsted's "name and shame" list have lost almost 600 staff
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Schools on Ofsted 'name and shame' list suffer huge staff exodus, union claims
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Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 15 December 2017
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Is English education world class in primary?
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Daily roundup 15 December: Erasmus, harassment advice and childcare funding
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Maths challenge: England has one of the biggest gaps between high and low performing pupils in the developed world
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A tool or a distraction? UK schools' approach to mobile phones varies widely
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Reception classes should be reserved for the best teachers, says study
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DfE guidance on tackling sexual violence and harassment
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Poor primary school pupils increasingly left behind by peers
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DfE: Schools must not put victims of sexual abuse in same classroom as their attackers
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National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2016 (revised)
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National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 (revised)
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Pupils taught well in Reception Class do better in their GCSEs
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Government social mobility plan prioritises early language
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Exams watchdog admits that THAT semi-colon question 'didn't function' #satsshambles
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Teachers are not instilling fortitude
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Schools are washing poor pupils clothes and taking parents to food banks
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Greening pledges £23m to help poor pupils with talent
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Ofsted Annual Report: What does it mean if your child is in a failing school?
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Spielman: Ofsted report into Reception curriculum is 'as controversial as custard'
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Ofsted apologises for mistakenly naming schools on list of underachievers
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ASCL comment on Ofsted annual report
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ASCL comment on EPI primary report
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Meet the sponsor - Lyfta
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Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17
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Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17: education, children’s services and skills
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Ofsted Chief Inspector launches her first Annual Report on state of education and children’s care in England
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Ofsted warns schools against 'disadvantage one-upmanship'
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Ofsted signals focus on curriculum and GCSE hothousing
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130 English schools fail to gain ‘good’ rating in 10 years
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Almost a third of Scottish 12-year-old pupils fail to hit writing benchmark
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Accountability, growth mindset and women who are going to hell: 8 things we learnt from the Ofsted annual report
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Ofsted annual report: RI schools fail to improve at record levels
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Private faith schools are resisting British values, says Ofsted chief
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Ofsted annual report: 130 schools not rated ‘good’ for over a decade
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130 schools have shown no improvement for 10 years, Ofsted reveals
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Ofsted finds 130 schools showing no signs of improvement in ten years in damning report
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School cancels Christmas service so non-Christians are protected from ‘preaching’
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Ofsted: Around 130 schools fail to reach 'good' grade in last ten years
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England has one of the biggest gaps between high and low performing pupils across developed world
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Scotland: ‘Scandalous’ rise in child obesity levels
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Sexual harassment of girls is widespread in schools
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Daily roundup 12 December: Sexual harassment, online protection and care applications
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More Scottish teachers but primary classes stay the same size
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France wants stricter child phone ban in schools
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The children whose gaming turns to gambling
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NEU and UK Feminista put pressure on government over sexual harassment in schools
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Sexual harassment 'rife' in schools but largely unreported, study says
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Sexual harassment 'normal' in schools, warns report
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Harassment and sexism rife at mixed schools
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Ban children from bringing mobile phones to school
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French pupils given phone ban and told to join choir in Macron school shake-up
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Grammar: Over-simplifications by teachers 'hinder' pupils
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Dec 11, 2017
Primary school invites in elderly people to work with young pupils
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A solid primary curriculum is essential for GCSE success – but what does that look like?
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Statistics on pupils’ skills ‘cannot be relied upon’
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NHS asks 10-year-olds if they're 'comfortable in their gender' in official transgender survey for schoolchildren
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Teachers call for ban on energy drinks in all schools as they cause disruption in classes
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Ofsted’s Reception report ‘narrow and political’
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School rules puncture enthusiasm of easy riders
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NHS gender survey is given to ten-year-olds
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Weekend read: Should volunteering replace work experience?
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Dec 8, 2017
Nick Gibb is wrong: PIRLS data does not support synthetic phonics
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Alastair Dalton: Park-and-stride could fix school-run congestion
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Times-tables tests 'will cause anxiety and waste money', says former chief maths adviser
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EEF seeks schools for rapid marking and handwriting trials
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Lords debates role of education in society
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Daily roundup 7 December: Legal challenge, Grenfell Tower, and child obesity
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Council bans schoolchildren from giving teachers Christmas gifts
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What makes a good reader? International findings from PIRLS 2016
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MPs pledge to help inspire next generation of engineers
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Calls to boycott new baseline assessment trials – which won’t even start until 2019
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Record-breaking 'E for Education' campaign by Citi raises over £665,000 for our work
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Only a third of EAL pupils are fluent in English
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Drive to improve science and technology in schools begins
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School attendance and absence: The facts
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Dec 7, 2017
'School's dead, it's the same lessons every day'
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Dec 7, 2017
Hallelujah! Reading standards are up. It shows what can be achieved when liberal dogma is defeated | Stephen Glover
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PSHE lessons improve pupils' grades, study finds
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A fifth of children are obese by 14
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‘ITP learner oversight in new Careers Strategy will hopefully be rectified’
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A love of maths multiplies Britain’s potential
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Teacher training applicants drop by more than 40%
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More than 770,000 UK children 'don't have any books of their own'
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Best reading in schools for a generation
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Stay away from my kids, Jeremy Hunt tells Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
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Ireland: Irish children have best reading skills in EU
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Primary schools in Northern Ireland continue to rank among the best in the world in reading
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Dec 5, 2017
Facebook: Now for young children too
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Parents of summer born children will be given the option of delaying when their children join reception
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England joint eighth in global reading study
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Daily roundup 5 December: Mental health, online streaming, and domestic violence
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Reading results should 'ring in the ears of opponents of phonics', says Gibb
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Lack of support for impartial careers guidance a disappointment
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Dec 5, 2017
Northern Ireland and England schools in reading top ten
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Ofsted will wait two years before inspecting schools that may no longer be 'good'
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'Weak' link found between teacher assessments and comparative judgement results
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Under-5s should be banned from using phones and computers on their own amid safety fears, report claims
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Focus on phonics sees reading standards rise to the best in a generation as schools minister hails controversial education reforms
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Under-5s should be banned from using technology on their own and teenagers must be given online 'reputation management' lessons
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Turner Prize 2017: What children make of the nominees
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Dec 5, 2017
Phonics revolution: Reading standards in England are best in a generation, new international test results show
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Dec 4, 2017
"Introducing dedicated careers leaders should give careers inspiration much needed prominence in schools"
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Dec 4, 2017
Three-quarters of teachers 'want social media etiquette to be taught in school'
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Dec 1, 2017
Stephen Timms MP: If the Government is serious about tackling injustice, a step change is needed in its approach to the early years
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Dec 1, 2017
What does the TIMSS 2015 international encyclopedia tell us about how our curriculum and assessment compare with other countries'?
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Dec 1, 2017
Teacher involvement in research has no impact on pupils' outcomes
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Children as young as two are branded 'low ability' at nurseries
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Rampant ability grouping in primary is ‘necessary evil’
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Nick Gibb: 'Teachers will lead the move back to textbooks'
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Nov 30, 2017
Ofsted report on the Reception Year: a hit and miss affair
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New UK ‘Industrial Strategy’ has STEM focus
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Summer-born children twice as likely to miss early years benchmark
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Teacher-training targets missed in all secondary subjects except history and PE
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Reflections on a forthcoming careers strategy
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Guardian Public Service Awards 2017 learning and development winner: Swansea council
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Nov 29, 2017
Teaching grammar does not improve children's writing ability, research finds
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Nov 28, 2017
Give RSCs responsibility for teacher supply, says Social Mobility Commission
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Social Mobility Commission report: The findings and recommendations for schools
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'It's fun to blog at the H-M-C-I': Twitter teachers direct songs of protest at Ofsted
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Nov 27, 2017
Most people have a 'great deal' of respect for teachers, poll shows
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'We tried to cope hour by hour': the schools in shadow of Grenfell Tower
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Nov 27, 2017
New research shows that drama improves children’s writing and motivation to write
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Nov 27, 2017
Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts: what you need to know
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Nov 27, 2017
Give children flu spray, parents urged
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Why children must learn the full truth about colonialism at school
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Tes sweeps the board at education-journalism awards
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Supporting parents can boost home learning
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Nov 24, 2017
How star jumps can boost nursery children's learning
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Primary school children almost as stressed over exams as GCSE pupils
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Scotland: Bar lowered for Scottish teacher trainees
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Phonics 'fundamentalism' is based on flawed science, says education expert
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Nov 22, 2017
DfE planning to spend £10m on Reception baseline test
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Nov 21, 2017
DfE guidance: literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies
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Nov 20, 2017
Stop stressing out our kids – why children’s mental health is as important as academic achievement
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Girls as young as four to be quizzed on why they are wearing hijabs in primary school
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Nov 20, 2017
Year of Engineering to inspire next generation of engineers
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Nov 16, 2017
Government announces landmark campaign to inspire next generation of engineers
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Free schools ‘failing to help enough poor white pupils’
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'Clear as mud': Teachers react to KS2 writing assessment changes
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Nov 15, 2017
Five ways to take the hassle out of homework
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Nov 15, 2017
School children wear odd socks for anti-bullying awareness
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Nov 15, 2017
BookTrust names great books for birth to five-year-olds
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Nov 14, 2017
The 'ACT for Youth: RUN HIDE TELL' campaign
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Police produce lesson plans on how to survive a terror attack
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Nov 14, 2017
Do not waste time taking photos if you are caught up in a terror attack, children told
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Nov 14, 2017
How to teach children about abuse
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Nov 13, 2017
Adopted children '20 times more likely to be excluded'
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Mental health: Pupils struggling to receive help, government-backed report finds Adi Bloom
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Teacher training: More postgraduate places are needed and 3 other facts in today's statistics
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Oct 26, 2017
How to use picture books to get your class talking about emotions
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Oct 26, 2017
Analysis: Why aren't there any Opportunity Areas in the North East?
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Oct 25, 2017
Greening: Part-time primary PRUs 'dramatically' reduce secondary exclusions
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Oct 25, 2017
The children in care left without a school place
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Oct 23, 2017
Less than one in 10 teachers set to use textbooks in most lessons by 2020
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Sep 29, 2017
Ofsted wants a change in the law so it can inspect multi-academy trusts
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Ofsted: A rethink on lesson observations, and eight other plans revealed today
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White Rose Maths says it will stop work if there is 'overwhelming consensus' to do so
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Sep 28, 2017
Parents choose 'screen time' over reading to their child
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Sep 19, 2017
Machines could replace teachers in classroom revolution, Anthony Seldon says
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Sep 11, 2017
Teachers urged to be open-minded about talking about porn
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Sep 11, 2017
Long read: The million-dollar teacher gives London pupils a taste of open waters
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Sep 6, 2017
This year's Sats spelling test was harder than in 2016, figures suggest
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Sep 4, 2017
'I could have walked in with a bomb and set it to go off on Thursday': Woman claims she was able to freely walk into Prince George's new school just days before the royal starts classes
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Prince George will be taught to “be kind” at new £17,600-a-year private school
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Sep 4, 2017
Sats: 2017 primary progress floor standards revealed
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Aug 31, 2017
Nearly a quarter of pupils failed controversial Sats semi-colon question
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Aug 30, 2017
Prince George’s first day of school: Kate and William to walk youngster through gates
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Aug 29, 2017
Pupils who learn in second language ‘catch up on listening skills within a year'
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Aug 7, 2017
Health and safety culture in schools 'harmful to children', Ofsted chief warns
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Aug 6, 2017
Children consuming online time 'like junk food'
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Aug 6, 2017
Don't wrap pupils 'in cotton wool', Ofsted head tells schools
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BBC under fire for using children in 'social experiment' to create 'gender neutral school'
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Aug 6, 2017
Giving schools extra money only boosts attainment by a ‘fraction’, DfE study finds
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Aug 3, 2017
Disadvantaged pupils fall behind despite funding
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Where will Prince George go to school? Where is Thomas's Battersea?
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Aug 2, 2017
The correlation between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 value added
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Aug 2, 2017
Don’t keep mum on exercise
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Aug 2, 2017
Roasting a chicken, Facebook privacy settings, Doomsday prep: life skills all school kids should learn
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Aug 1, 2017
'Action needed' on Wales teacher shortage
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Jul 28, 2017
Huddersfield primary school takes part in lockdown training (video)
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Jul 19, 2017
Global: There's a $90bn-a-year global education aid funding gap - one decision at G20 in Hamburg could help 825 million kids
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Jul 6, 2017
Justine Greening: Social mobility must be at the heart of the government’s agenda in Brexit Britain
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Jun 23, 2017
More school heads are paid over £100,000
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Jun 23, 2017
Rise in number of headteachers paid six-figure salaries
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Jun 22, 2017
The latest workforce data shows government should care much more about teacher retention
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Jun 22, 2017
Global: UN warns 'no progress' on 260 million missing school places
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Jun 21, 2017
Language learning gap widens between North and South of England
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Jun 16, 2017
EPI to host launch event of new OECD early childhood education report
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Jun 15, 2017
Phonics check risks distorting learning, says NAHT
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Jun 13, 2017
TV ‘damages child language skills’ Edinburgh research finds
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Jun 5, 2017
Global: Make or break moment beckons for education at G20 summit
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Jun 5, 2017
Is a master’s degree in education right for you?
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Science teachers most likely to leave profession, and 3 more DfE retention data findings
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May 25, 2017
More teachers leaving profession, new DfE research shows
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May 25, 2017
Michael Rosen to speak at NAHT’s new Primary Conference in November 2017
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May 3, 2017
Mothers’ depression more harmful than poverty for children’s mental health, study finds
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Mar 15, 2017
Secret Teacher: I thought supply would be hell, but it's a joy
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Feb 25, 2017
Plans for first state-backed Islamic primary school in Scotland
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Feb 19, 2017
Oldham head teacher targeted by death threats
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Feb 19, 2017
Mini MBAs - would you enrol your child?
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Feb 7, 2017
Primary Teacher Education and Training: a new report from Cambridge Primary Review Trust (6 Feb 2017)
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Feb 6, 2017
SEND: Nearly half of speech therapists lack time and resources to support pupils with language disorders
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Jan 26, 2017
School funding debate
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Jan 25, 2017
Consider scrapping KS2 teacher-marked writing tests, says Ofsted director
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Jan 18, 2017
End tests for seven-year-olds and bring back Reception baseline assessment, say heads
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Jan 18, 2017
Review launched after ‘more than half’ of primary school pupils with language disorders not identified
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Jan 16, 2017
Primary assessment: accountability measures and impact examined
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Jan 12, 2017
We are moving into a new catchment area - will our daughter miss out on our preferred primary school?
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Jan 11, 2017
Primary schools must teach all students to pass 11-plus
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Jan 8, 2017
A happy New Year for primary assessment?
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Jan 6, 2017
Parents outraged after primary school slaps fines onto parents if their children are late
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Jan 6, 2017
Primary school headmistress to fine parents whose children are late, sparking angry backlash
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Jan 6, 2017
Revealed: How thousands of London children are exposed to Scientology group in schools
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Jan 5, 2017
Number of additional support for learning teachers at lowest level since 2007
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Jan 5, 2017
School places left out of plans for garden villages
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Jan 5, 2017
Ofsted criticises University of Chester Academies Trust over standards and exclusions
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Jan 5, 2017
How to spark an interest in science?
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Jan 5, 2017
Children 'fending for themselves online'
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Jan 5, 2017
These are the most oversubscribed primary schools in Newport
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Jan 4, 2017
These are the most oversubscribed primary schools in Cardiff
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Jan 3, 2017
The 15 things you need to know about applying for a primary place for September 2017 in Wales
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Jan 3, 2017
School funding cuts worse than predicted. JAMs hit hardest as school budgets plummet
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Jan 3, 2017
"Just About Managing" children hardest hit by proposed education funding cuts, warn unions
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Jan 3, 2017
More than 1,000 Scottish schools lack outdoor sports pitches
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Jan 3, 2017
Over 1,000 Scottish schools are without sports pitches
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Jan 3, 2017
School cleaners who went on strike over pay sacked before Christmas
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Research round-up 8 November 2016
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NAHT
EEF
Breakfast clubs
Curriculum
Primary
Nov 8, 2016
Saddle your steed, Sir Greg Martin, overpaid superhead, and gallop out of our schools
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Guardian
Superheads
Academies
DfE
Headteachers
Primary
EFA
Nov 8, 2016
Scottish primary school stops setting homework
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BBC
Scotland
Homework
Primary
Nov 7, 2016
Primary school bans homework after pupils and parents voted to read books instead
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Telegraph
Scotland
Homework
Primary
Nov 7, 2016
Primary assessment webinars on Tuesday 15 November
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NAHT
Primary
Assessment
Nov 7, 2016
Pupils and parents at Fort William school vote to scrap homework
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Scotsman
Scotland
Homework
Primary
Nov 6, 2016
Primary school drops homework and tells pupils to read comics instead after parents vote
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Mirror
Primary
Homework
Scotland
Nov 6, 2016
Village schools are 'at risk of extinction': Headteachers warn funding squeeze means thousands of small primaries could face cuts
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Mail
Primary
Funding
Headteachers
Curriculum
Teachers
Academies
MATs
Nov 5, 2016
Government ‘extremely concerned’ over academy trust that paid CEO £82k for 15 weeks’ work
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Independent
Academies
MATs
Primary
Secondary
DfE
EFA
Nov 5, 2016
Jane Bradley: Homework for primary school kids doesn’t add up
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Scotsman
Primary
Homework
Nov 5, 2016
Feeder pre-school charges £275 ‘retainer fee’ for free nursery place
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Schools Week
Nursery
Primary
Nov 5, 2016
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 4 November 2016
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Pearson
HE
FE
Universities
Primary
Apprenticeships
Careers guidance
Teachers
Nov 4, 2016
New School Cuts interactive website shows devastating effects of Government's school funding plans
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NUT
Funding
ATL
Primary
Secondary
Nov 4, 2016
Outrage over Lambeth headteacher Sir Craig Tunstall's £370,000 per year salary
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Headteacher
Evening Standard
Pay
Primary
Academies
MATs
Nov 4, 2016
Boss of country’s largest academy trust steps down
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Schools Week
Academies
AET
Ofsted
Primary
Nov 4, 2016
CEO of country's biggest academy chain AET to step down
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TES
Academies
AET
Ofsted
Primary
MATs
Nov 4, 2016
New School Cuts interactive website shows devastating effects of Government's school funding plans
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NUT
Funding
ATL
Disadvantaged students
Primary
Secondary
Nov 4, 2016
Children who talk about their learning perform better, study finds
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TES
Primary
Secondary
Maths
EEF
Attainment
GCSE
Nov 4, 2016
Funding cuts 'will hit schools with poorest pupils hardest'
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TES
Funding
Primary
Secondary
NUT
ATL
Disadvantaged students
DfE
Nov 4, 2016
Silent army of 40,000 'lost girls' struggling with reading
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TES
Gender inequality
Reading
Literary
Primary
Secondary
Nov 4, 2016
Pupils perform better after breakfast clubs – whether or not they eat anything
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Breakfast clubs
TES
Free school meals
Attainment
Primary
EEF
Nov 4, 2016
School breakfast clubs boost pupils' results, research shows
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Mail
Free school meals
Primary
Breakfast clubs
EEF
Nov 4, 2016
£374,000 a year for best paid primary head in the UK
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Headteacher
Primary
Mail
Pay
Nov 4, 2016
Thousands of smaller schools 'financially not viable'
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BBC
Primary
Secondary
ASCL
DfE
Funding
Nov 4, 2016
Free school breakfast clubs boost results, study finds
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Guardian
Breakfast clubs
Disadvantaged students
Free school meals
Primary
Nov 4, 2016
School breakfast clubs boost pupils results, research shows
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Express
Primary
Breakfast clubs
Free school meals
Nov 4, 2016
Primary school breakfast clubs 'boost pupils' results in reading, writing and maths'
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Mirror
Breakfast clubs
Free school meals
Primary
EEF
Nov 4, 2016
Executive headteacher of 8 local authority primaries paid more than £330,000-a-year
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Headteachers
Primary
Pay
Schools Week
Academies
MATs
Nov 3, 2016
New coalition of parents and teachers calls for 'toxic' Sats to be suspended after pupils left in tears
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Teachers
SATS
TES
NUT
Primary
NAHT
DfE
Nov 3, 2016
Fears that decline in pupils writing outside school could affect attainment
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Attainment
TES
Primary
Secondary
Writing
Nov 3, 2016
Former head paid £375,000-a-year for leading trust with nine primaries
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Headteacher
TES
Primary
Funding
MAT
Academies
Nov 3, 2016
History lessons
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BBC
International
Africa
Nigeria
Curriculum
History
Primary
Secondary
Nov 3, 2016
Fresh bureaucracy row in Scottish schools
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Herald Scotland
Scotland
Benchmarks
Primary
Secondary
Teachers
Nov 3, 2016
Primary experts call for reception year review
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Schools Week
Primary
Reception
Teachers
DfE
Nov 2, 2016
Primary experts say Reception year needs overhaul to improve pupils' learning
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TES
Primary
Reception
TSC
Nov 2, 2016
The role freedom and autonomy has played in school improvement
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DfE
GOV.UK
FASNA
Academies
MAT
Primary
Nov 2, 2016
Sir Michael Wilshaw's speech at the FASNA Autumn Conference
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Ofsted
FASNA
Brexit
EU
International students
Immigrants
Primary
Secondary
GCSE
GOV.UK
Nov 2, 2016
Teachers priced out of house market as property prices soar to 11 times earnings
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Teachers
Guardian
Primary
Secondary
Recruitment
Retention
Nov 1, 2016
Primary assessment: Heads welcome new DfE guidance placing more trust in teachers
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Primary
Assessment
DfE
Teachers
TES
STA
Oct 31, 2016
Primary assessment moderation changes a step in the right direction, says NAHT
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NAHT
Primary
Assessment
Moderation
STA
Oct 31, 2016
ResPublica report into white working class achievement
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Attainment
NUT
Teachers
Grammar
Primary
Oct 31, 2016
Term-time holidays 'do not harm primary test scores'
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TES
Primary
School holidays
DfE
Oct 28, 2016
Union ballots on Sats boycott as MPs call for testing to be suspended
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SATS
Primary
Curriculum
Assessment
TES
Schools Week
Oct 27, 2016
Teacher mucks in after landing new job at Scots island's primary school
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Teachers
Scotland
Primary
Herald Scotland
Oct 25, 2016
New primary school to be built in Glasgow to cope with growing population
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Herald Scotland
Scotland
Primary
Oct 24, 2016
Close your eyes and breathe: schools sign up to mindfulness
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Wellbeing
Primary
Guardian
Oct 23, 2016
Primary assessment inquiry
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Assessment
Primary
UK Parliament
Oct 21, 2016
Results-boosting primary-school philosophy lesson to be trialled across 200 schools
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Philosophy
P4C
TES
Primary
EEF
Oct 21, 2016
Primary school blames Brexit for hike in lunch prices
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Primary
Brexit
EU
School meals
Telegraph
Oct 21, 2016
Offer cash rewards to underachievers to boost GCSE results, study says
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GCSEs
Primary
Guardian
Oct 21, 2016
Schools in Wales have £64m sitting in their reserves
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Primary
Secondary
Nursery
Wales
Wales Online
Oct 20, 2016
Greening announces EYFS is to stay
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EYFS
Nursery
CYPN
DfE
Primary
Oct 20, 2016
Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2015 and spring 2016
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Absence
DfE
Primary
Secondary
GOV.UK
Oct 20, 2016
Coasting schools: progress thresholds
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Progress 8
Accountability
Primary
Secondary
NAHT
Oct 20, 2016
New app helps to address gap between school and real-life maths
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Maths
Primary
Secondary
National Numeracy
Oct 20, 2016
My grandson has Asperger's and struggles with essays. How can we help him?
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Primary
SEND
Telegraph
Oct 20, 2016
Charity launches gaming app to boost maths skills
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Maths
National Numeracy
BBC
Primary
Secondary
Oct 20, 2016
Now that’s what I call grammar
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Grammar
Primary
Curriculum
Capita SIMS
Oct 19, 2016
Bridging the gap between primary and secondary school
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Primary
Secondary
Bridging
Capita SIMS
Oct 19, 2016
Government u-turns on year 7 resit manifesto pledge
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Assessment
Primary
Schools Week
Oct 19, 2016
Justine Greening announces primary assessment changes
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Primary
Assessment
EYFS
Schools Week
Oct 19, 2016
Primary education
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Primary
Assessment
Curriculum
SATS
DfE
GOV.UK
Oct 19, 2016
Primary education
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Primary
Assessment
Curriculum
SATS
DfE
GOV.UK
Oct 19, 2016
Primary school accountability
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Primary
Accountability
Progress measures
DfE
GOV.UK
Oct 19, 2016
Primary education
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Primary
Assessment
SATS
DfE
GOV.UK
Oct 19, 2016
“Promise of light at the end of the tunnel”: Voice welcomes statement on primary assessment
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Primary
Assessment
Voice
Oct 19, 2016
ASCL welcomes Justine Greening’s common sense approach
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Secondary
Curriculum
ASCL
Primary
Oct 19, 2016
NAHT comment on government changes to assessment
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DfE
Assessment
Primary
Secondary
SATS
Teachers
NAHT
Oct 19, 2016
Justine Greening announcement on primary assessment
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Teachers
NUT
Primary
SATS
Oct 19, 2016
The Prevent Strategy Isn't Working
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Prevent
Primary
Huffington Post
Oct 19, 2016
Plans to make pupils resit Sats axed
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SATS
Primary
Curriculum
Exams
BBC
Oct 19, 2016
Sats: Greening ditches Year 7 resits and promises two years without new tests
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Assessment
Primary
SATS
Resits
TES
Oct 19, 2016
Greening – 'I am listening to teachers on Sats'
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SATS
Assessment
Primary
Exams
TES
Oct 19, 2016
Sats: Unions welcome primary assessment review but want to see more details
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SATS
Assessment
Primary
TES
Oct 19, 2016
Sats analysis: five ways for ministers to prove they are really listening to primary teachers on assessment
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SATS
Assessment
Exams
Primary
TES
Oct 19, 2016
PE 'Cinderella subject' for too long, says report
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PE
APPG
BBC
Primary
Nursery
Oct 19, 2016
Major SATs U-turn as resits for children who fail primary school tests are scrapped by Education Secretary
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SATS
Resits
Exams
Primary
Mirror
Oct 19, 2016
Ministers scrap controversial plans for compulsory exam resits for 11-year-olds who fail maths and literacy tests
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SATS
Exams
Resits
Primary
Mail
Oct 19, 2016
Councils call for more powers to help struggling schools
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Primary
Secondary
RSC
TES
Oct 18, 2016
Heads go to Downing Street with 'dire' funding warning
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Funding
Primary
Secondary
Academies
Special needs
BBC
Oct 18, 2016
International opportunities - updates from the British Council
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Languages
Primary
France
NAHT
Oct 17, 2016
Teach 10-year-olds about the ‘devastating’ effects of sexting, psychologists say
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Primary
PSHE
TES
Oct 17, 2016
Should schools do more to teach internet safety?
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Primary
UK Parliament
GOV.UK
Oct 17, 2016
New Welsh-medium school set to open in Cardiff
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Primary
Wales
Welsh-medium
Wales Online
Oct 17, 2016
Good comprehensives deserve high praise | Letters
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Primary
Comprehensives
Guardian
Oct 17, 2016
Individual pupil progress crucial to new national curriculum, head warns
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Primary
Wales
Curriculum
Wales Online
Oct 17, 2016
Sats: Teachers crank up classroom creativity ahead of possible boycott
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Primary
SATS
Teachers
TES
Oct 17, 2016
Are children born in the summer really at a big disadvantage?
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Schools
Summer-born
Primary
Guardian
Oct 14, 2016
A guide to applying for primary and secondary schools in Wales
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Schools
Primary
Secondary
Wales
Wales Online
Oct 14, 2016
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