EVERY state secondary school in York is set to reopen to pupils on Monday (March 8) bucking national trends.
As the first measure taking the country out of the third national coronavirus lockdown, schools are allowed to reopen fully from Monday, but many across England have needed to stagger start dates because of the enormity of the task of swab testing thousands of pupils.
It comes after last month, the Department for Education announced that all secondary pupils should be offered a test for Covid-19 before setting foot back in school. The government said that a staggered start to term was permitted, so that schools could test pupils, year group by year group over the first week back.