Angry father calls for Muslim parents to pull their children out of primary school after teacher mistakenly displayed image of Prophet Muhammad in assembly Image was shown in presentation on children’s achievements during Ramadan Religious leaders calling for calm after the incident at junior school in Sheffield But furious Atif Mohammed has rejected the apology … Read more
Parents and male students were left ‘mortified’ after their school forced them to stand in assembly and apologise to their female classmates for sexual assaults committed by males. Brauer College in the south-western Victorian town of Warrnambool held an assembly on Wednesday where boys were told to stand up in a symbolic gesture of apology … Read more
The Space Launch System (SLS) ‘megarocket’ that will one day take astronauts to the moon and Mars has passed a major assembly milestone, according to NASA. The US space agency said the ten segments that make up the two booster rockets were vertically stacked over several weeks at the Kennedy Space Center. When launched, the … Read more
A mother revealed the ‘reality’ of lockdown teaching by showing her husband hosting an assembly in sweatpants with a row of gin bottles behind him – which he cleverly hid from view. Lucy Evans, 39, from Wolverton, Milton Keynes, couldn’t help but take a picture of her husband Ed, 41, while he hosted a Zoom … Read more
Headmaster, 41, of £18,000-a-year London private school will come out as gay to his pupils and staff in online assembly tomorrow and says ‘my only regret it not doing it earlier’ Headteacher Nicholas Hewlett plans to tell students and staff at St Dunstan’s College in Catford that he is gay during an online assembly tomorrow … Read more
Police and Black Lives Matter protesters were in a tense two-hour standoff at a Louisville church on Thursday night, after the demonstrators declared the church a ‘sanctuary’ and demonstrated there when a 9pm curfew went into effect. Demonstrators massed at First Unitarian Church, where clergy allowed them to seek refuge on church grounds to avoid … Read more
People in everyday, non-scientific professions like plumbing and baking should be consulted about gene editing, a group of experts say. Much like how criminal court cases have a jury composed of normal people, global citizens’ assemblies should let laypersons have their say on the controversial technology. Gene editing is thought to have potential to prevent … Read more
Kate turns teacher! Duchess of Cambridge will lead an online assembly for students across the UK – urging them to carry out ‘small acts of kindness’ and ‘nurture their own happiness’ The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, will lead an online assembly for children She showed her support for online classroom Oak National Academy Every Thursday … Read more
For a moment, imagine you live in a country where Labour won the last General Election and is now masterminding a national response to the coronavirus pandemic. That scenario is certainly in the minds of opponents of Boris Johnson, who have spent the past two months complaining relentlessly about the Government’s handling of this unprecedented … Read more