TikTok Abuse
TikTok teacher abuse videos; government stepping in. The UK government is currently working with TikTok to tackle videos posted on the platform by students insulting or abusing their teachers; some with racist or homophobic tendencies. TikTok Abuse This has come to light from headteachers who have voiced their concerns after videos emerged featuring pictures of […]
Return to the Classroom
Today marks the day where millions of pupils return to classrooms in England and Wales, even with fears of Covid Spikes throughout the country. With recent news, experts have recommended that healthy 12-15 year olds should not have the vaccine at this time. And with the government relinquishing all COVID rules, scientists have warned that […]
School Absences Double in a Week
New data released has stated that the number of pupils off school for Covid-related reasons has doubled other the last week. Numbers released have showed that Covid absences are now at 2% of total pupils in England; these numbers have risen fourfold since the 11th March – 33,000 to 127,000. Geoff Barton, the general secretary […]
Bullying in Schools – What Can We Do?
The number one concern with young people in modern times is bullying of some sort with most of it starting at school; research released this week have stated that 60% of secondary pupils have experienced bullying. This comes as Rikama Education, who reported earlier this week, on Jeremy Wright who warns of social media operators […]
SATs – Branding Children as Failures
As all primary educators will know, SATs results were released yesterday, and most news outlets are headlining the positives of two-thirds of Year 6’s achieved their expected grades. Is two-thirds an acceptable amount? Thirty-three per cent failed to meet their grades, these year 6 children will have to be told that they have failed just […]
