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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
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
Makeshift schools to beat coronavirus crunch: Keir Starmer calls for theatres, museums, libraries and leisure centres to be used as classrooms to stop millions missing out on their education Sir Keir Starmer said empty buildings should be used to create more classrooms He said theatres, museums, libraries and leisure centres could all be overhauled That … Read more
Ministers last night reassured parents that reopening primary schools today is safe amid fears many will keep their children away. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said it was ‘extremely important’ children went back to school. It comes as a study suggested up to half of families may shun sending their youngsters to lessons due to worries … Read more
Professor Robert Dingwall warned the measures were ‘extreme’ and risked making children ‘miserable There is no need to remove soft toys from classrooms or ban children from touching books when schools eventually reopen, one of the government’s experts has claimed. Professor Robert Dingwall warned the measures were ‘extreme’ and risked making children ‘miserable’ when they … Read more
As teaching unions lock horns with officials, it’s easy to forget the schools that have quietly risen to the challenge – and the solution is as simple as a ‘bubble’. Caldicotes Primary Academy in Middlesbrough has seen around 20 key workers’ children and vulnerable youngsters come in to school every day for the last nine … Read more
Teaching unions look set once again to clash with the government over plans to reopen schools next month, with one union chief today raising fears that classrooms could become ‘centres of transmission’ for Covid-19. Paul Whiteman, head of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said the government must lay out the level of risk … Read more