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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 Mary's 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.