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Colman Junior School. Photo: Google - Credit: Archant A rapidly growing number of Norfolk primary schools will not be reopening after the Christmas break due to the coronavirus pandemic. A government announcement on December 30 amid rising Covid-19 rates meant that secondary school pupils and college students in Norfolk - and across the county - would undergo a phased return to school. All primary schools had been expected to reopen on Monday (January 4) but scores of schools in Norfolk will no...

Kevin Courtney, the NEU’s joint general secretary, said: “We are calling on Gavin Williamson to actually do what he professes he does – to follow the science and announce, now, that primary schools in England should move learning online - apart from key worker and vulnerable children for at least the first two weeks of January.” Binks Neate-Evans, executive principal of Bignold and Angel Road schools in Norwich - Credit: Evolution Academy Trust Binks Neate-Evans, executive principal at ...

Stuart Allen, Headteacher, Mile Cross Primary School, Norwich. Picture: Jamie Honeywood - Credit: Archant A primary school headteacher has said he expects pupils will return to class after the new year. Stuart Allen, headteacher at Mile Cross Primary School in Norwich, said: "My expectation is that we will open again on January 4. "The children have missed enough school, so my message to parents is we have to try to keep the school open." Attendance has been "best ever" this term among receptio...