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16 APR 2021

Children’s Laureate calls for £100m investment in school libraries

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: school

The Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell MBE has called on Downing Street to put primary school libraries at the centre of the government’s response to the pandemic by ring-fencing £100m a year in spending to preserve under-threat facilities.

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09 FEB 2021

'Longer school days’ to help children catch up

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: school

The school day could be made longer to help children catch up on missed learning, reports suggest. Government ministers are discussing the possibility of extending the school day so that children who have missed out on vital teaching during lockdown have more time in the classroom.

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26 JAN 2021

Ministers consider ‘phased’ reopening on schools

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: school

Ministers are contemplating a phased return of pupils which would see primary schools returning to the classroom first. The Department for Education is also considering partially reopening secondary schools so that children in Years 10 and 12, who have exams next year, return as soon as possible.

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10 DEC 2020

Schools can close a day early for Christmas

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: school

Schools will be allowed to shut a day early so staff have a “proper break” from identifying potential coronavirus cases ahead of Christmas.

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12 NOV 2020

GCSE and A-levels in Wales cancelled next summer

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: school

Wales has cancelled all GCSE, AS level and A level exams in summer 2021 as a result of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the disruption it is causing to learning, education minister Kirsty Williams has announced.

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15 APR 2020

Bleak economic forecast triggers call for schools to re-open

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: school

Downing Street is under increasing pressure to re-open schools before May half term following a shattering forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility which indicates that the UK economy will shrink by 35% as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.

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09 February, 2021
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