“Last half-term there was a sense that government was simply sitting back and watching Covid numbers rise – we do not want to see that again this half-term.”
With the end of term in sight, less than half of the government’s promised 300,000-plus CO2 monitors have been delivered to schools.
Ofsted is being urged to grant deferral requests from schools that find themselves in “crisis mode” due to the sharp increases in Covid-related absence of pupils and staff.
Remember what happened a year ago? There is a palpable sense of déjà vu as teachers and school leaders issue increasing desperate pleas for government action to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 among ...
Substantial progress has been made by schools during the summer term 2021 to recover learning “lost” during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Increasing levels of staff absence due to Covid continue to wreak havoc in schools, with budgets at breaking point and the majority of heads warning that teaching and learning is suffering.
Some schools are reporting up to 10 per cent staff absence due to confirmed or suspected cases of Covid-19.
“We can’t afford a caretaker or a SENCO” – primary school headteachers have laid bare the financial difficulties they are facing as one in four predict a deficit budget this year based on current ...
Schools should take action to improve ventilation if CO2 readings are “consistently higher than 1500ppm” but should still continue to use the room in question, Department for Education guidance has ...
There is a sense of trepidation, inevitability, and anger about the “highly likely exponential increases” in Covid infection rates as schools return this week and next.
School leaders want to see “high-quality ventilation equipment” made available to schools where needed after welcoming the government’s £25m roll-out of CO2 monitors as a ppositive first step.
The end of schools having to manage huge test, track and trace operations has been welcomed, but there is anxiety and caution over the government’s dramatic relaxation of Covid safety measures.
The extent to which the government has “short-changed” schools has finally been revealed after official figures showed that up to 100,000 FSM children will not attract Pupil Premium funding this year.
School leaders are shunning the government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in favour of organising and delivering tutoring themselves as part of Covid recovery efforts.
The proportion of children who cannot swim 25 metres by the end of primary school – which was already one in four pre-Covid – could rise dramatically in the coming years, MPs have warned.
Teachers are asking for long Covid to be legally recognised as a disability under the Equality Act 2010.
Last year’s ill-fated month-long Eat Out to Help Out scheme cost about the same as the government’s Education Recovery Plan for the next academic year.
Teachers are pleading with the government to “get a grip” on the spread of the Delta Covid variant in schools as figures show the extent to which localised outbreaks have affected young people.
The government has been accused of waiting until half-term to “sneak out” the announcement of its Education Recovery Plan to avoid criticism about a significant lack of funding and its “lack of ...
School libraries are being hit due to PTA fundraising shortages caused by the pandemic.
Concerned teachers and school leaders are pleading with the government to come clean on just how prevalent the Indian Covid-19 variant of concern is in schools.
With fears over the growing impact of the pandemic on mental health, the government has finally announced the first tranche of funding for new designated mental health leads (DMHLs) in schools.
Schools are on red alert for signs of burn-out among their teaching staff after alarming new research findings.
Covid recovery: America is spending £1,600 per-pupil. The Netherlands is spending £2,500 per-pupil. England is spending £250 per-pupil. Pete Henshaw reports on the increasing pressure facing the UK ...
The chilling and worsening impact of poverty on children and families has been laid bare by a survey of 10,000 teachers. The research also sets out teachers’ priorities post-Covid. Pete Henshaw ...