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South Sefton Police enlisted the help of local 10-year-old children as part of their operation to improve road safety last month and scold motorists for selfishly breaking the speed limit.

Pupils from Clifton with Rawcliffe and Hempland primary schools were at the National STEM Learning Centre in Heslington today to race on a 25-metre…

BBCs Newsround TV programme visited Dane Ghyll primary school and nursery in Barrow yesterday (January 24) after the school became one of the first…

ALOR GAJAH: A 42-year-old male teacher pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here to an offence of outraging the modesty of his pupil in a classroom.

In every school I visit, I see demoralised teachers maintaining a system plagued by disruption, stress and bad behaviour

On my first day working as a supply teacher in a medium-sized town in the north of England, a Year One child entered the classroom through an open window of the Year Five classroom where I was teaching, using the fire escape lever to let himself in. As I tried to establish who he was and how to get him back to his class, he turned out drawers, pulled displays off walls and hit a few of the children in the class.

Parents and teachers have a Covid hangover. In schools up and down the country, absenteeism is a growing problem. Data from the Department for Education show that more than one in every five children in England are persistently absent from school, a figure that has doubled since the pandemic. Persistent absence means missing more than 10 per cent of school days, roughly four weeks per academic year.

Dalton St Marys Church of England Primary School was forced to close on Wednesday due to flooding, with hopes that things would be better by Friday.

Primary school pupils from Croftlands Junior School in Ulverston have dazzled an accountancy firm with their festive art.

Bradford schoolchildren have been learning about digital footprints and online safety while playing with LEGO bricks.