Hundreds of parents in the UK are expected to keep their children out of school today in protest over too stressful tests. (The first ever "kids' strike" in the UK is in protest at what parents claim is "over-testing" at the expense of children’s happiness.  Key Stage 1 testing (SATS) for six and seven-year-olds, have […]

National Offer Day (around the beginning of March) is when parents across England are told by their Local Authority whether their children will be offered a place in their first choice secondary school. (It is a fraught time for parents with children who are in their final year of primary school. In 2015 84.2% of […]

Emergency plans for virtual schools and "homework by post" have been drafted in case a decision is taken to close all schools because of swine flu. With 100,000 new cases in a week, officials in England have considered extending the school summer holidays to try to limit the spread of the virus before a vaccine […]