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From drop-off to pick-up, here's what parents of primary school kids should know.
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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.