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Primary schools

August 2024

  • Michael Gove, who introduced free schools as part of education reforms under the coalition government.

    Gove’s free schools increase segregation and harm nearby schools, says study

    Michael Gove’s policy aimed to create ‘galvanising effect’ on system in England but led to rise in divisions
  • Pupils with raised hands in a classroom with a teacher at the white board

    Children to be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online

    Education secretary launches review of curriculum in primary and secondary schools in England aimed at teaching critical thinking
  • Students sitting mock GCSE exams

    England’s curriculum review: what education experts want to see

    Ideas range from fewer tests and less emphasis on grammar to sex education reform and more children’s agency

July 2024

  • Robin Cutler

    Other lives
    Robin Cutler obituary

    Other lives: Primary school teacher in Sussex who was loved by pupils for his eccentric ways
  • A motion blurred image of a group of pupils

    Sharp increase in pupils suspended or excluded from schools in England

    Teachers struggling with disruptive and violent behaviour as record 787,000 pupils suspended in 2022-23

    • Other lives
      Hilary Hester Ives obituary

    • School heads urge Labour to continue funding national tutoring scheme

    • Other lives
      Joan Winfield obituary

June 2024

  • illustration composite with children looking at a teacher in front of a whiteboard and an apprentice

    Life under Labour
    Labour wants to create opportunities for all. Can its education pledges narrow the divide?

  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

  • A tank of elvers in a school classroom.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A special delivery of mystery creatures – baby eels

  • A quarter of state school pupils in England receiving free school meals

  • English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds

  • ‘A full tummy means pupils can concentrate.’ But is Labour’s school breakfast plan bold enough?

May 2024

  • The three politicians smiling in front of a crowd of people holding Lib Dem posters

    Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey

    Exclusive: Leader challenges Labour to match £500m pledge, to be paid for with US-inspired share buyback tax
  • A student writes with a pink pen in an exercise book at a school desk in a classroom

    Today in Focus
    What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?

    The sex and relationships educator Jo Morgan discusses what she believes a sex education curriculum should look like

    • I’d hate to be learning English again. Apostrophes are a nightmare

      Adrian Chiles

    • Curbs on sex education use pupils as ‘political football’, school leaders say

    • Age curbs on sex education topics risk making some children vulnerable

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