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Survey finds more than half of Aberdeen teachers have experienced verbal abuse in the 2021/22 academic session.

Updated: 13/04/2021, 10:31 am © Shutterstock / Lincoln Beddoe Pupils are back in full-time classes. An Aberdeen teaching union boss has raised safety concerns as secondary pupils return to full-time in-class lessons for the first time since before Christmas. Classes resumed yesterday in the usual way albeit with Covid-19 safety measures in place. Pupils do not need to social distance from each other but must wear face coverings while at school. Youngsters at primary schools had already started full-time classes before the Easter holidays with primaries 1-3 returning first followed by primari...

North-east council spends more than £250,000 on PPE for school staff © Steve Brown / DCT Media School staff have been using PPE to stop the spread of Covid-19. Education bosses at a north-east council spent more than £250,000 on protective equipment for school staff following the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Evening Express can exclusively reveal. Between March and December last year, Aberdeenshire Council spent almost £255,000 on PPE to be used by staff working in education and children’s services across the north-east. The figures were obtained by the Evening Express using free...

Aberdeen teachers union raises concerns over return to school announcement Updated: 17/02/2021, 5:12 pm A teachers union has called for a rethink on back to school plans after the First Minister announced a phased return for pupils next week. Concerns have been raised by the Aberdeen branch of EIS over the move, which will see early learning and younger primary school children going back full-time from Monday. Senior pupils who need to attend practical classes for exam purposes will also be allowed back to the classroom. Aberdeen City branch secretary Ron Constable said: “Our primary school...

Call for action as hundreds of school staff attacks logged in 2020 © Steve Brown / DCT Media Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Reducing class sizes and hiring more assistants should be a priority if education chiefs want to stop hundreds of classroom assaults being launched every year, it has been claimed. Shocking new figures have revealed the extent of violence against staff in schools, with almost 1,000 incidents recorded across the north in the last year alone. Of the 967 cases of physical and verba...