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Here's where we're at with the scientific evidence behind sending kids back to school.
Parents are preparing to send their children back to school this September. For many students, this will be the first time they have been back in classes for many months. Here we speak to educational psychologist Dr Dan O'Hare about how to prepare your kids for this potentially daunting experience.
The UK's top medical officers have said “very few, if any” children and teenagers would come to long-term harm from the virus by attending school.
Nobody ever thought kids would spend half the year off school in 2020.
Teachers like me are meant to encourage pupils to believe they can achieve anything. Now we’re in the unenviable position of grading our students not for a weekly essay – but for life.
The government's scientific advisers have that warned more restrictions may be needed to reopen classrooms in England next month.
No shirt signing, no proms, no GCSEs. Covid-19 put an abrupt end to school in March, meaning a generation of 16-year-olds missed out.
Lockdown has changed the way parents socialise at the school gate. I understand why – but I still miss it.
Boris Johnson tried to reset the agenda on his premiership this week ahead of the lockdown all but lifting, setting out a “new deal” in the mould of Franklin D Roosevelt to get Britain to flourish once more following the coronavirus pandemic. But was he bold enough during the crisis itself?While Johnson was taking to the stage, a local flare up of cases in Leicester, China’s moves on Hong Kong and Donald Trump’s hoarding of coronavirus drugs showed just how gargantuan his task may be. Tory former minister and founder of the Big Tent Ideas Festival, George Freeman takes a look with Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth.
Exams may be delayed, while caps on group sizes in nurseries and at childminders in England will be lifted from July 20.