A 15-year-old boy is lobbying to have homework scrapped in secondary schools around the country. Lee Sibley, a GCSE pupil at Severn Vale School, Glos, started the Change.org petition urging Prime Minister Theresa May to ban homework in UK secondary schools. It has so far amassed 160 signatures, and the ...
President Donald Trump celebrated the fifth anniversary of the notorious Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings by inviting the CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA) - America’s chief gun lobbyist for Whitehouse Christmas drinks. Five years to the day troubled Adam Lanza shot his mother dead, followed by six school ...
The girls school choir of Al-Sadiq & Al-Zahra schools performed a heartfelt version of Insha Allah today at the Grenfell Tower fire memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral. Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire attended the service alongside members of the Royal Family, PM Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and 1,500 other guests. Bishop of ...
A mum has slammed a school after pupils were asked to 'rate' neighbours they wouldn't like to live next to - including 'a black person'. Naomi Davis was stunned when her eleven-year-old daughter showed her the worksheet that her class had been given which listed various types of people. The ...
A "shabby and immoral" house master at a top £15,000-a-year independent school who had sex with a 17-year-old girl has been cleared of abusing his position. Married Bryan Schalch, 39, emailed the girl – who had a “teenage crush” on him – and kissed her in clandestine meetings in a ...
A randy teacher who sent a string of explicit emails acting out a schoolgirl sex fantasy has been allowed to keep his job. Christopher Perry used school computers to send messages, including telling the recipient: "I require you to be dressed as a schoolgirl with white knickers." In another message, ...
L’ecole Buissonniere is a slow moving French period drama, one that is perfect for a cold, drizzly Sunday afternoon. This is not intended as a criticism and the film acts in the same way dunking a freshly ripped piece of bread into a steaming bowl of stew is often the ...
Furious parents have blasted a secondary school after Big Brother-style CCTV cameras were installed in the pupils' TOILETS. School bosses claim the cameras - which are directly above the boys' urinals and the girls' cubicles - are intended to combat bullying and vandalism. But parents have reacted with anger, claiming ...
A super headteacher of one of the best schools in the country says there are not enough top schools in deprived areas. Simon Elliott leads Forest Gate Community School in Forest Gate, Newham, an area with high levels of poverty and gang violence, which was today ranked the sixth best ...