Saturday
Students want music lessons, so why are they vanishing?
The pandemic saw children more eager than ever to play music but less likely to have access to it. Can the subject be saved?
Refer pupils to new mental health teams, teachers told
New £79m NHS mental health school teams must not simply be a ‘sticking plaster’ says former NAHT president
Wednesday
Exclusive: Fears over quality of teacher catch-up aids
DfE warned that its £15m procurement process may ‘discriminate’ and risks harming the quality of resources
GCSEs: Pay us for ‘horrendous’ grade work, say teachers
Exclusive: Union says teachers in England deserve £400 ‘token’ for grading and moderation – the same as in Scotland
School counsellor target ‘was missed then hidden’
Figures show that by December just 215 of 350 counsellors promised to secondary schools had been recruited
Covid catch-up: What will summer schools look like?
Funding is now available for summer schools, but how will leaders be organising them? Grainne Hallahan finds out
Friday
Exclusive: Recovery at risk as school staff cuts loom
Schools are having to ‘lose people who should be in front of children just to balance the books’, warns heads union leader
Scotland ‘has best-funded schools system in the UK’
But England allocates more funding to schools ‘on the basis of social deprivation’, according to report
Thursday
National Tutoring Programme ‘too restrictive’ say heads
Heads’ union reports ‘frustrations’ with the catch-up scheme and say it’s not reaching schools in every part of the country
Dear Mr Williamson, school funding is in crisis...
In an open letter to the education secretary, this head argues that schools’ financial situation is untenable
