Home Secretary Priti Patel prompted fresh fears on Tuesday that schools could stay shut for the whole of January when she said pupils would ‘eventually’ return to classrooms. A Government source had said on Monday that schools could end up staying closed until February amid fears that children are more likely to catch the new mutant … Read more
When WILL children go back to school? Matt Hancock refuses to rule out keeping classrooms closed after Christmas break Union leaders say return of secondary schools should be delayed for two weeks Ministers have vowed to keep schools open after they shut in the first lockdown Matt Hancock urges head teachers to make sure pupil … Read more
Thousands of secondary school pupils in England will have their return to school delayed by up to a week after the Christmas holidays amid a Covid crisis in the classroom. Downing Street confirmed that the planned January 4 and 5 restart would now be ‘staggered’ with the use of online lessons, with full face-to-face learning … Read more
President-elect Joe Biden got testy with a CBS News reporter who asked him a question on Friday about his plan to get children back into classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tense exchange took place just as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were wrapping up a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate … Read more
PE teacher, 44, who flashed her breasts, sat in pupil’s lap and got drunk at school prom is banned from classrooms Katherine Lake, 44, has been banned from classrooms by disciplinary panel PE teacher admitted inappropriate behaviour at Year 11 prom at Norfolk school She attempted to sit on one student’s lap, smoked a cigarette … Read more
Schoolchildren are banned from singing Happy Birthday in the classroom over fears it could spread coronavirus – and are told to listen to it on YouTube or hum the tune instead Schools across the country have banned singing inside due to coronavirus fears Birthday cakes from home have also been banned to stop the virus … Read more
One in eight state school students did not go back when classrooms reopened after this month the coronavirus lockdown, according to official figures. Approximately 88 per cent of state school pupils were back in class last Thursday, meaning that 12 per cent of children were marked absence. Figures published by the Department for Education (DfE) … Read more
Parents can send their children back to school next month safe in the knowledge that they face an ‘exceptionally small risk’ from coronavirus, the UK’s Chief Medical Officers have said in a unanimous ruling. The highly unusual ‘consensus statement’ from the country’s most senior experts removes the final hurdle to the resumption of full-time teaching in … Read more
Schools will be the last places to close, even in a local lockdown, Boris Johnson vowed yesterday. As the Government’s row with the unions escalated, the Prime Minister said getting all children back to school full-time in England next month was the ‘right thing for everybody’. His comments, on a visit to a school in … Read more
Even with good ventilation, only a small fraction of the novel coronavirus may be filtered out from a room, a new study suggests. Researchers have been looking at how the virus spreads indoors and how aerosol particles, which are expelled though breathing and talking, flow through three settings: classrooms, elevators and supermarkets. In one classroom, ventilation … Read more