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Approximately 1,000 head teachers from across England protested outside Parliament on Friday in a plea for increased school funding.

A secondary school is offering parents the chance to take their children out of school for one week in July next year for an "enrichment week", the BBC reports.

Primary school teachers lose more than a million hours of lesson time each year toilet-training children and teaching them basic hygiene, according to new research.

Teachers are to be offered up to a year’s paid sabbatical, in a bid to improve retention rates in the profession. In an address to more than 350 school leaders in Liverpool, education secretary Damian Hinds will announce the £5m scheme.

A grammar school has abolished the positions of head boy and girl in favour of gender-neutral roles in order to appoint the "best people for the job". Pupils at Guernsey Grammar School will no longer be shortlisted based on their gender but instead purely on merit.