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18 April 2026

Author: Nicky Phillips

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s comic book day

Pupils at an east London school this week traded in their school uniforms to morph into their favourite comic book heroes and villains Children from Elmhurst Primary School, Forest Gate (and their teachers) freed their imaginations as they brought comic book characters to life. Literacy co-ordinator and Year 4 Head, Nia Williams, lead the day […]

Hear, hear for dogs

Anational charity for deaf people is offering free educational fundraising packs to schools to educate children about deafness and encourage them to fundraise. Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, which trains dogs to alert deaf people to important sounds and danger signals, are providing school packs containing fun, interactive and educational activities. These include teaching children […]

Derby UTC digs in for the future

Some of the first prospective students of the Derby Manufacturing University Technical College (UTC) helped to mark the start of building work on the new campus in Pride Park. Matthew Bell (15), Connor Richardson (15) and Meena Khetani (13) joined principal designate Philip Morris to cut the first sod on the site in Locomotive Way. […]

Right Angles: More than one angle on wearing the niqab

A student sent home for flouting uniform code is not exactly a hard-hitting story. But in a case this week the newspapers were all over just such a story for the simple reason that the student was muslim and her transgression was the wearing of the niqab, a face-covering veil. Reported first by the BBC, […]

Private Welsh primary fails in second free school bid

The head of a small private Welsh independent primary school in London has partly blamed her school’s size for the rejection of its second application to become a free school. The latest FOI release from the Department for Education (DfE) shows that Ysgol Gymraeg Llundain in Brent, north London, was rejected for a second time […]

Jewish school monitors ‘anti-religious agenda’

A Jewish education group has said that it is monitoring signs of an “anti-religious agenda” after a secondary school received an unannounced inspection following complaints that pupils were being “indoctrinated”. Ofsted visited JFS, a 2,000 pupil Jewish school in Kenton, north London, in July after it received a letter that claimed children were taught “extreme” […]

Immigrant found clinging to school bus

A headteacher has praised his pupils’ reaction after an illegal immigrant was discovered travelling under the school bus during a journey back from a school trip to France. Perry Beeches Academy’s executive headteacher Liam Nolan said the Year 9 pupils, who had been on a trip to Normandy, showed compassion for the Sudanese man when […]

Miliband backs surge in apprenticeships

Schools will have to “lead a dramatic change in education” under a Labour government, the party leader Ed Miliband has said. Delivering his keynote speech to the Labour party conference in Manchester on Tuesday, Mr Miliband pledged to deliver the same number of apprenticeship starts as university places and said the change had to start […]