Suspending pupils from schools is never the first port of call for teachers. It is a measure that can be taken for a multitude of reasons and often after alternatives have been exhausted. They are small periods when pupils are temporarily removed from a school - returning after a set, short period of time. Secondary schools often have larger pupil headcounts, bringing children from across Sheffield into their establishments with aims of giving them the best starts to adulthood they possibly can....
The school in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, was put in lockdown after a schoolgirl allegedly lashed out with a butterfly knife and a 'Code Red' was announced over the speaker system.
The upcoming GCSE exam season may be returned to normal after the pandemic - but after all the disruption, some pressure might this year be taken off pupils who studied through Covid-19. The Department foe Education has confirmed there will be no ‘Progress 8’ reports published for schools for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years. The score is a measure for assessing schools based on how well pupils did in their KS2 results compared to the end of KS4 when they did their GCSEs. Positive scores...
School breakfast programs? Has anyone bothered to find out why some children are coming to school without having eaten breakfast? Have their parents been confronted with this unacceptable situation? It is the parents’ responsibility to feed their children, not the school’s. If parents cannot afford to feed them, then grocery vouchers should be provided by […]
A Coventry council report warned of the effects of soaring demand for school places
A specialist school and charity in Sheffield, which supports children, adults and families living with cerebral palsy and other motor disorders, is holding a 24-hour fundraising danceathon. Children at Paces will start dancing at midday on Friday, May 24, and dance all the way through the night until midday on Saturday (May 25). They are taking on the challenge to raise vital funds to develop their outdoor space, including a sensory garden, outdoor classroom, raised beds for planting, and...
Multiple Los Angeles-area school districts have investigated instances of “inappropriate,” AI-generated images of students circulating online and in text messages.
A 19-year-old Sheffield man who threatened to kill a man in a violent group robbery has been jailed. In August 2023, Tyrese Tomlinson, of HMP Marshgate, was part of a group of men who approached a man sat in a parked car in the Firth Park area of Sheffield. The group brandished knives and threatened to kill the victim before telling him to get out of his car. The car, which was filled with personal and work items, was driven away by the gang with Tomlinson in the driver’s seat. Sign up for our...
Sheffield Steelers Ice Hockey captain, Robert Dowd, has donated a match-worn, team-signed jersey to the parents of Oliver Howe to raise funds in his memory. Diagnosed with a brain tumour in September 2020, Oliver Howe spent the last three years of his life in and out of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He sadly passed away on February 1, 2023. Oliver’s parents, David and Laura, are giving back to Sheffield Children’s and keeping their son’s legacy alive through an In Memory fundraising page....
One parent said: "I had a car drive straight at me, with the driver yelling abuse.”
KATHARINE BIRBALSINGH: A school should be free to do what is right for the pupils it serves. The court's decision is therefore a victory for all schools.
Suspending children from school is something we rarely see from educators, especially at primary level. Teachers aim to keep kids in school, where they are safe, fed and learning. However, for a multitude of reasons, senior leadership can and do decide to temporarily suspend pupils from school. Suspensions and permanent exclusions data, published in a Gov.uk package in April 2024, includes figures revealing which Sheffield primary schools handed out the most suspensions in the 2021-22 academic...