Young people who learn practical skills through Barnardo’s have created a series of self-portraits to mark the 150th anniversary of the charity’s first ‘ragged school’. Teenagers at The Hub Skills Centre in Stepney Green were inspired by the recent donation of postcards dating back to the late 19th century which depict children ...
Drag queens entertained primary school children on World Book Day in a performance designed to teach tolerance around LGBT issues. Pupils at Parsons Street Primary School in Bedminster, Bristol, shrieked with laughter during the storytelling sessions and joined in enthusiastically with singalongs. Head teacher Jamie Barry invited entertainers from Drag ...
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Addressing US governors today Donald Trump criticised first responders to the Parkland gun massacre that claimed 17 lives, and insisted if he had been outside he would have run in, with or without a firearm. Trump also insisted that in coming up with a solution to school shootings that are ...
Donald Trump met familes affected by school shootings including the Parkland, Florida atrocity yesterday to hear their concerns Present at the emotional White House meeting he had promised them were children who had survived the shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week and a breaved family of ...
Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last Wednesday have vowed to march on Washington to embarrass politicians in the sway of America’s powerful gun lobby. The mass shooting in Florida left 17 dead and 15 wounded. It is the 18th gun-related incident in the US this year ...
A veteran lollipop man who says he felt forced to quit his job after parents complained he was ‘high-fiving’ schoolkids has today blamed “political correctness gone mad”. Award-winning Bryan Broom, 77, claims he was told by council officials that high-fiving children could be misconstrued as grooming. The pupils’ favourite is ...
A perverted nursery school teacher who sexually assaulted a three-year-old boy has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years. James Riley, 42, was caught out after the innocent toddler spoke of the assault, which took place in the toilet, as he was picked up from the school. Discussing what he had done ...
Nicola McGarry, a school teacher from London, started suffering with tinnitus two years ago and her experience of the condition, combined with her job in a primary school, sparked an interest in how tinnitus impacts on younger people particularly in the school environment. Here, as part of Tinnitus Week, which ...