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.
A minister has insisted it is for parents to discipline their children after paediatricians called for a UK-wide ban on smacking.
Winton Community Academy in Andover, Hampshire, claims a policy that bands children from using the toilet during lessons is to 'protect students from exposure to vaping'.
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.
A new study suggests that the way parents view school meals can impact how likely their children are to participate in meal programs at school.
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 […]
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. It’s been two years since the start bell time changed from 8:35 a.m. to 8 a.m. at Westdale Secondary. A group of parents and students say it’s not working. “We asked for some attendance information and from September to December, there were eleven thousand late, or late absences in the first period,” said Catherine Roberts […]
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health urges ministers to follow lead of Scotland and WalesParents in England and Northern Ireland should be banned from smacking their children because doing so is unjust, dangerous and harmful, leading doctors have urged ministers.It was “a scandal” that Scotland and Wales had outlawed smacking but not the other two home nations, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said on Wednesday. Continue reading
A Coventry council report warned of the effects of soaring demand for school places
PRAIRIEVILLE — The Prairieville Fire Department is launching a program to provide fire safety training to high school students.The Prairieville Fire Department will launch the Ascension Parish High School Firefighter Program starting in the 2024-2025 school year. The program, available to all Ascension Parish high school seniors, will provide students with four nationally accredited certifications in firefighting and hazardous materials mitigation.The certifications students earn in the...
A Muslim pupil has lost a High Court challenge against a ban on prayer rituals at a high-achieving school previously dubbed Britain’s strictest.
One parent said: "I had a car drive straight at me, with the driver yelling abuse.”