9 h. ago Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden joins young school children for play time

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden beamed as she joined a group of young school children during playtime - as she kicked off a three-day visit to Nigeria on Monday.

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19 h. ago 'I quit my stressful job as a teacher and now work half the hours but earn twice as much'

Harriet Bermingham, 31, from Worsley, Salford, left her role as a primary school teacher and now has 85 children on her books, earning twice what she did before for half the amount of hours

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59 h. ago Moment London knife victim, 22, buys drinks for his killers before they stab him to death in street

Moment London knife victim, 22, buys drinks for his killers before they stab him to death in street  lbc.co.uk

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4 d. ago Parents of kids on bus that hit Virginia Giuffre's car brush off her claims it was huge crash

Emmie-Rose Wright's three children - aged five, eight and nine - were on the school bus which hit the car in which Virginia Giuffre was travelling near Perth, Western Australia

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4 d. ago My children were on the school bus that Virginia Giuffre claims slammed into her at 110kmh

Mother Emmie-Rose Wright said her three children - aged five, eight and nine - relayed the crash only caused slight damage to the rear break light of the Toyota Highlander.

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4 d. ago At least 27 killed as Israeli strike hits a school in Gaza, say medical officials

The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, say officials

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4 d. ago Appropriate age for letting children play outside alone as Easter holidays approach

If you're considering giving your child more freedom when it comes to venturing out of the house in the school holidays, tips are at hand from a leading children's charity

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4 d. ago School locked down as teacher 'attacked and bloodied' and children in tears

Two teenagers have been taken into custody as parents were urgently summoned to collect their children from the secondary school.

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4 d. ago Hartlepool school in lockdown with parents urgently called and children in tears

One frightened pupil at the Hartlepool school said: "We saw one of the teachers bleeding and crying - there was blood on his face. It was awful. It all just went crazy"

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4 d. ago Warning to parents over certain drinks after 'public health risk' fears

Parents have been urged not to give pre-school children sweetened soft drinks amid health concerns

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5 d. ago Police find 2023 Nashville school shooter sought notoriety, hid mental health from medical providers

Police say the shooter behind the 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children, had been planning it for years while hiding their mental health issues from medical providers

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5 d. ago Warning to parents after masked man 'chased' children from village primary school as they played in woods

Pupils were playing in a wooded area when a man, covering his face with a balaclava, started running after them in the quaint village of Hallow, Worcestershire.

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5 d. ago School curriculum resources to teach children about risks of in

Teaching materials will also help secondary school pupils to identify and scrutinise data and claims made by online influencers.

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6 d. ago Parents of SEND children fight private school VAT hike in court: ‘We’re working seven days a week to pay fees’

Education Not Taxation found that more than 98 per cent of parents with SEND children didn’t believe the state sector locally. to them would meet their children’s needs properly

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6 d. ago School children 'disarm robber and stab him to death' after being held at gunpoint

A suspected robber who posessed a firearm attempted to steal the phones of two pupils on the way to school. One of the victims fought back and stabbed him to death in Chile

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6 d. ago North Lanarkshire school transport changes voted down by councillors

Councillor Janice Toner moved for an update to be provided to North Lanarkshire Council’s education committee on what safeguards are in place to protect children with medical conditions which prevent them from walking to school

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7 d. ago 'Friends think I'm selfish for getting divorced and think I should stay for the kids'

Coleen Nolan advises a reader who's drifted apart from her husband and now wants a fresh start, but feels like she is being judged hard by the people she thought were her friends

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8 d. ago How and why parents and teachers are introducing young children to AI

Guardian readers share the ways and reasons they are preparing their children and students for a future that may necessitate familiarity with generative artificial intelligenceSince the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative artificial intelligence has trickled down from adults in their offices to university students in campus libraries to teenagers in high school hallways. Now it’s reaching the youngest among us, and parents and teachers are grappling with the most responsible way to introduce their under-13s to a new technology that may fundamentally reshape the future. Though the terms of service for ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other AI models specify that the tools are only meant for those over 13, parents and teachers are taking the matter of AI education into their own hands.Inspired by a story we published on parents who are teaching their children to use AI to set them up for success in school and at work, we asked Guardian readers how and why – or why not – others are...

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8 d. ago Rise of the catapult killer 'influencers': Children as young as 8 are brutally killing wildlife with slingshots during school time for social media clout

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The recent emergence of youngsters brutally killing wildlife with catapults for clout on the likes of Snapchat , Instagram and TikTok is a particularly sickening one.

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9 d. ago Bryn Terfel: ‘I’d stand on a table and sing Elvis at the drop of a hat’

The opera singer, 59, on his love of Wales, performing for the King, and where he goes to let his hair downI had an angelic childhood. I was brought up on a sheep farm in Pant Glas, north Wales, with my older brother Ian. My father was a farmer, my mum worked in a school for children with disabilities, and they and my grandparents were in different choirs. There was always singing in the household, pieces of music on the kitchen cupboards.I’d stand on a table and sing an Elvis song at the drop of a hat. I wasn’t a boy soprano, but I entered into competitions in the Welsh festival, Eisteddfod. That allowed me to think of singing as a career. Any given weekend, you can compete either singing, reciting or playing an instrument. Continue reading...

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