First-born children are more likely to do better at school because parents pay them more attention, according to new research. The extra focus gives them an "edge" over younger brothers and sisters and higher IQs - as early as the age of one. Researchers found the eldest child outperformed siblings in ...
School children across the UK are celebrating that they can eat chips, loads of chips without having awful lettuce, cabbage, and courgettes stuffed into their gobs, due to a shortage from the EU. Tom, 7, from Aldershot has been snap chatting his mates pictures of chips, just loads and loads ...
A primary school has become the first in Britain to allow pupils to wear SLIPPERS during lessons. Findern Primary School say the switch from shoes has become so popular that even some TEACHERS have chosen the comfier option in class. The school introduced the idea after spotting a 10-year study ...
Money that was pledged by the Government to convert failing schools into academies has been clawed back by central government. The money was going to be used to force every school to become an academy, but a backlash, including a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs, led to the Government ditching ...
Pupils at a £25k-a-year private school sneaked out of their hotel on a trip in Tenerife to go boozing and using cocaine - with one rushed to hospital. A number of students have been disciplined after the incident during which one is said to have bought coke from a local ...
Leeds entrepreneur brings young schoolboy closer to walking again with £16,000 donation A young schoolboy with cerebral palsy who dreams of being able to walk and run with his friends has passed his half way funding goal to raise £50,000 to fund a life-changing operation. 9 year old Alfie Smith, ...
Once there was a parent. You know the sort, always out for special treatment for their child, complaining if someone else gets to be Mary at Christmas, or if another child is praised for working hard and being kind and helpful, as opposed to their spoilt, idle, over-entitled progeny who ...
Most of us have done it, but only to friends or family members, but one school managed to accidentally send the c-word to hundreds of parents. St Dunstan's School has since apologise for making the slip-up in a message asking mums and dads to fill in a form.The text was ...
We used to walk, well run, to school being chased by the bigger boys, but in Eastern Thailand you get a much bigger companion to accompany you to school. The bullies wouldn’t have messed we us, if we had these animals taking us to double maths. These two kids walk ...