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Headteacher Martine Buckley has warned parents that children could lose their place at school if lockdown rules are broken A headteacher has threatened to withdraw pupils from a school in Oldham after children told teachers they had been visiting people outside of their households. Martine Buckley, executive headteacher at Yew Tree Community School in Chadderton, … Read more
A headteacher in Berkshire has told parents not to send their children to school tomorrow amid soaring cases of the more-infectious Covid variant despite assurances from Boris Johnson that schools are ‘safe’. Slough head teacher Gil Denham said she can’t ‘guarantee that pupils or staff will not be exposed to the virus’ if they return … Read more
A headteacher confronted an 11-year-old pupil carrying a knife in school during tonight’s episode of Educating Greater Manchester. The new series of the hit Channel 4 series was filmed at Harrop Field School in Salford in 2018. In the first episode, which aired tonight, head Mr Povey was forced to search through the bags of … Read more
Stop being mean to our hardy snowflakes! Leading headteacher hails ‘resilience’ of young people in the face of coronavirus and says they are most resilient generation since World War Two Sally-Anne Huang is High Master of St Paul’s School in south-west London Made comments in speech to Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference Can’t think of group … Read more
A headteacher will next week begin handing down fines to cautious parents who refuse to send their children back to classrooms. Tina Wilkinson revealed that 25 pupils were absent from St Andrew’s Primary School in Lancashire yesterday, despite her repeated warnings of penalties. Fines are doled out after five absent days, meaning their parents have until … Read more
A jealous headteacher who stabbed his estranged wife and her new boyfriend to death in a New Year’s Day bloodbath was a ‘coward’ and a ‘bully’ who abused her for years, friends have claimed. Rhys Hancock, 40, killed Helen Almey, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, at the £400,000 detached property the formerly-married couple used to share in … Read more
A headteacher has said ‘none of her staff have needed persuading’ to come back to work next week, and that although they’re ‘scared’ amid the coronavirus crisis, they ‘want to do their job’. Yesterday, Boris Johnson announced the phased reopening of primary schools in England will begin as planned on Monday, with reception, year one … Read more
Jesper Larsen, a headteacher in Copenhagen, Denmark, said Danish schools were able to go back to class a month ago because the country’s society respects government guidelines While British schools will not begin to reopen after lockdown until the beginning of June at the earliest, at my school here in Denmark virtually all the children … Read more
Britain’s ‘strictest headteacher’ has today issued a stark warning that social distancing is ‘simply impossible’ in schools. Katharine Birbalsingh, the formidable head of the Michaela Community School in Brent, north London, said it was a ‘lie’ that safe distancing within educational settings was possible. Ms Birbalsingh’s riposte came in response to the suggestion that children could … Read more
A primary school headteacher has died after testing positive for coronavirus as young and healthy Britons begin to fall victim to the disease in increasing numbers. Wendy Jacobs, 59, was headteacher at Roose Primary School in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. She was diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus last week and was rushed to Furness General Hospital’s intensive care … Read more