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Teachers must stop trying to wrap children in cotton wool with over-the-top health and safety policies, the chief inspector of schools has said.

A number of Maidstone schools were put on lockdown, after a threat was made on Wednesday.

Charlie and Lola author takes over role and hopes to spark ‘random acts of imagination’ among children

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has voted against balloting members on a boycott of primary school tests, known as Sats, in England.

‘Unecessary’ national tests to be scrapped for seven year olds
The proposals follow years of campaigning from teachers, parents and industry leaders who say children in England are under too much stress from being tested at too young an age.
Controversial national curriculum tests taken by six and seven-year-olds in England are to be scrapped under radical new government proposals.
The move follows years of pressure from parents and industry leaders who argue the compulsory tests put children under too much stress at too young an age.
The Department for Education is instead proposing a new assessment for children when they first start school, which aims to “reduce the burden” of assessment on teachers and pupils.

One in five pupils who applied for a place in a Kent secondary school for this September will not be offered their first choice.

There is widespread confusion about England’s new GCSE grading system, says the exams regulator Ofqual.

Join us for a recruitment day at a highly successful Medway Academy on the 28th January. We will be recruiting Teachers, TAs, Cover Supervisors and NQTs across Primary, Secondary and SEN.

The New Year Honours list recognises over 120 people for their contribution to education, children’s services and equality and diversity.

Lack of access to grammar schools is not confined to the poorest children, those from “just managing” families are also left out, research suggests.