15 h. ago Voices: I don’t just have ‘normal’ worries about my child starting school – I’m scared she could die

For parents of kids with severe food allergies like mine, the rite of passage that is starting primary school is fraught with very real, very deadly fears that they will come to serious harm – or worse, writes Hannah Fearn

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16 h. ago Teacher didn't tell primary school she was dating paedo 'because he was in prison'

Year 1 teacher Leanne Till, 36, has been banned from the classroom indefinitely after failing to tell bosses at her school that her partner was a convicted child sex offender

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17 h. ago Parents hit out a 'vegetarian primary school' and demand meat back on lunch menu

More than 100 people have signed a petition to reinstate meat to the school's lunch menu after parents claimed their children were left with bad stomachs and nutritional deficiencies

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20 h. ago Primary school teacher banned from classroom over relationship with jailed paedophile

Leanne Till didn't tell her school her partner was a convicted child sex offender

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20 h. ago Teacher didn't tell primary school her partner was paedophile 'because he was in prison'

Leanne Till didn't tell her school her partner was a convicted child sex offender

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35 h. ago Primary teachers strike in row over pupil behaviour and how school is being managed

Governors say the wellbeing and education of children remain top priorities and insist 'the school is a safe environment for both children and staff'

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36 h. ago Preferred location of a new Welsh medium school in Merthyr revealed

Cabinet members have given their backing for a new build on the Goetre Primary School site

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39 h. ago Parents call for meat to go back on the menu at 'vegetarian' primary school where main meals include cheese and onion rolls and Quorn

More than 100 people have signed a petition to reinstate meat offerings at Sharow School in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, which advertises itself as vegetarian.

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3 d. ago Boy, five, died after 'accidentally being exposed to' cow's milk protein at school, inquest hears

Benedict Blythe, a reception pupil at Barnack Primary School in Lincolnshire, died in hospital from food-induced anaphylaxis in 2021, after he vomited twice before going into cardiac arrest.

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3 d. ago Primary school teacher banned after failing to tell bosses she was in relationship with sex offender

Leanne Till was found to have made the ‘deliberate decision’ not to inform the school of her relationship

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3 d. ago East Ayrshire pupils come up with winning name for newly proposed wind farm

An entry from primary five pupils at Netherthird Primary School stood out to OnPath Energy team.

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4 d. ago Liverpool primary school on lockdown after 'shots fired' as police rush to scene

Cops rushed to the scene in the Everton area of Liverpool after reports that gunshots were fired at a taxi. They are now trying to trace the cabbie and the alleged gunman

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4 d. ago Fight to save 'happy and caring' Welsh primary school facing closure

'Ysgol Clydau is more than just a school; it's a hub for community life, offering a safe and welcoming space for children, families and residents of all ages.'

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4 d. ago North Lanarkshire Council publishes details of planned social housing development in Newmains

The council has internally submitted a planning application for 33 houses on the site of the former St Brigid’s Primary School, along with 47 new parking spaces, access roads, drainage and landscaping.

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4 d. ago First Minister says Labour are taking Reform threat in Wales ‘seriously’

Eluned Morgan told Sky News voters in Wales needed to understand Reform as a "threat", warning that "things that they're used to" such as free prescriptions and free school meals for primary school children "could be snatched away"

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5 d. ago Swindon 'stabbing' sees armed police rush to house with man 'covered in blood'

An air ambulance has landed at a primary school, with multiple police cars also seen parked up nearby following reports of an alleged stabbing at a nearby address.

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6 d. ago The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell

Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequencesThroughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met.By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emails, often littered with mistakes that were glaringly obvious to me even at such a young age. It used to baffle me – how could this person, who races through multiple books a week and can quote Shakespeare faultlessly, possibly think “me” is spelt with two Es? Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Sick perv teacher who pulled girls pants down and 'gave her a lolly' before abuse jailed

Trent James May, from South Australia, has been jailed after abusing three young girls while working in a primary school with his jail sentence was backdated to March 14

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7 d. ago Shanklea Primary School chaos as huge blaze rips through classrooms with black smoke filling sky

A shocking fire ripped through a primary school in Cramlington, Northumberland, this afternoon, sending plumes of thick black smoke into the sky

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7 d. ago Shanklea Primary School chaos as fire rips through classrooms and smoke fills sky

A shocking fire ripped through a primary school in Cramlington, Northumberland, this afternoon, sending plumes of thick black smoke into the sky

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