8 h. ago Tragedy as boy, 16, dies at funfair with police investigation launched

Police said a teenage boy died after suffering a 'medical episode'

Events

21 h. ago Boy, 16, dies in Barry Island Pleasure Park tragedy as police launch investigation

South Wales Police said the boy died after suffering a 'medical episode'

Events

45 h. ago Welsh medium school where pupils speak English put into special measures

Pupils at a Welsh medium secondary school in Cardiff don't speak the language well enough, Estyn said

Politics

4 d. ago Teenage boys, 14, arrested on suspicion of raping girl, 12, in field outside a secondary school

Police received a report at around 7.45pm on Sunday that the girl had been raped in a field outside The Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester, Dorset.

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4 d. ago Exact moment children ‘stop enjoying school’ revealed in new study

This formative point in child’s life is often being overshadowed, research shows

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4 d. ago Pupils’ enjoyment of school suffers ‘substantial decline’ in Year 7 – study

Girls increasingly feel less safe at school than their male peers in the early years of secondary school, the report also suggests.

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4 d. ago Assistant headteacher at top secondary school sacked after giving out award making fun of student's 'sexual assault'

Nick Barends lost his claim for unfair dismissal from The Blue Coat School in 2023 - making it the second time he lost his job at the institution in Wavertree.

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5 d. ago New school for the town left without secondary education for a decade

New images show the scale of construction at the new Star Radcliffe Academy after just two months of building work

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6 d. ago My mum won’t let me have a smartphone. Is she being unfair? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

There are genuine concerns about young people using social media, but the main thing is that you talk to your parents about it• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a readerMy mum has always been protective, and I fear it is destroying my social life because I haven’t grown up with much access to social media. I don’t mean to say it’s OK to be exposed to social media at a young age, but it needs to be controlled in a certain way.Because I had a flip phone until the middle of secondary school, I haven’t had a TikTok or Snapchat streak with anyone because I never learned how it works. I know this might sound like me complaining over nothing, but it sometimes feels like my mum is purposely doing this to damage me. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Boy, 15, dies after 'medical emergency' at south London secondary school

Emergency services rushed to Coopers School in Bromley on Tuesday afternoon

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9 d. ago Boy, 15, dies after falling unwell at secondary school and being rushed to hospital

The teenager was at the school in Hawkwood Lane near Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst, south East London around 1.30pm on Tuesday when the incident happened.

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1 week ago Parents of boy who died three days after his first birthday despite 10 visits to A&E hope medics can provide answers at inquest

Little Archie Squire died after doctors failed to to properly diagnose him, despite more than 10 visits to A&E in his short life, lawyers argue.

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1 week ago Secondary school in Swansea set to close and move to a new site

It would lead to a brand new school for 1,400 pupils on the site of a former school which has been shut for more than a decade

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1 week ago 'Impossible' GCSE question is so tough it baffles both parents and kids

Secondary school students around the UK are sitting their GCSE exams this week, and to mark the occasion, we've found a tricky maths question that even parents can't answer

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2 w. ago Boy, three, is seriously injured when hit by car towing caravan after travellers set up camp illegally on school playing field

About ten caravans arrived at The Blandford School, a secondary school in Blandford Forum, Dorset, yesterday afternoon.

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2 w. ago Airdrie Academy given 'more time to make necessary improvements' after Education Scotland inspection

Among the secondary school's strengths noted by inspectors were "strong, positive relationships between staff and young people who feel a sense of belonging and pride in their school".

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2 w. ago Schoolgirls in Wales report problematic social media use double that of boys

Data came from the 2023 The School Health Research Network student health and wellbeing secondary school survey.

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2 w. ago Conman, 32, who faked terminal brain cancer to swindle school friend out of thousands of pounds is jailed

Matthew Howarth, 32, from Atherton, Greater Manchester, contacted Thomas Lee out of the blue 16 years after they left secondary school - but then began falsely telling him he had weeks to live.

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2 w. ago School in lockdown over ‘threatening email’ with pupils urged to stay home

Parents have been told to keep their children away from Astor Secondary School in Dover

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2 w. ago Huge £1.3 billion development at Mortlake goes ahead after 10

Riverside scheme will deliver 1,068 homes and a secondary school for 1,200 pupils

Economics