Teaching unions sound alarm AGAIN over plans to reopen schools

Teaching unions sound alarm AGAIN over plans to reopen schools – after ministers promise parents classes WILL resume in full from September Government has promised to forge ahead with schools reopening next month Comes after it imposed new lockdown measures on north of England on Thursday and postponed reopening of bowling alleys, casinos, skating rinks NASUWT … Read more

Dwyane Wade thanks trans daughter Zaya ‘for teaching me’ as he and Gabrielle Union present for GLAAD

Dwyane Wade thanks trans daughter Zaya ‘for teaching me’ as he and Gabrielle Union present GLAAD Award for best drama series to Pose By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 17:47 BST, 31 July 2020 | Updated: 17:47 BST, 31 July 2020 Dwyane Wade thanked his 13-year-old trans daughter Zaya during the virtual GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday. … Read more

Teaching unions call for face masks to be made mandatory for children

Teaching unions have urged ministers to make face masks mandatory for children in secondary schools when they finally return in September. Ministers currently have no plans to make pupils or staff in the UK wear masks when they go back to school after the summer holidays.  The Government has conceded that face masks in the classroom … Read more

Gavin Rossdale embraces his youngest son Apollo, six, while teaching him the ins and outs of tennis

Gavin Rossdale embraces his youngest son Apollo, six, while teaching him the ins and outs of tennis By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 02:45 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 02:45 BST, 2 July 2020 He’s been spending a considerable amount of time on the court during this extended quarantine period, and now he’s showing … Read more

Dan Carter shares video of proud Maori father teaching his tiny baby how to do the haka war dance

‘Teach them young!’ Proud Maori father teaches his tiny baby how to do the haka war dance in heart-warming video shared by New Zealand rugby star Dan Carter Rugby player Sean Wainui did the haka with his eight-month-old son Kawariki The 24-year-old performs the Maori war dance while his happy baby joins in New Zealand … Read more

Teaching union tells MPs that Year 11 pupils have been neglected and need urgent help to catch up

Teaching union warns Year 11 pupils have been ‘neglected’ after their GCSEs were cancelled due to coronavirus and need urgent help to stop them falling further behind Year 11 pupils are not a priority for schools, says leading education figure David Hughes of the Association of Colleges lectured MPs about school strategy Year 11 students … Read more

Why can children go to Primark but NOT school?’: Furious Tory MPs ask teaching unions

Teaching unions were today accused by MPs of running a ‘disgraceful political campaign’ to keep classrooms closed by making parents fear they are ‘deathtraps’ when children can now go to Primark but not to school. Rowing broke out as the heads of the four main teaching unions appeared before the Education Select Committee to discuss … Read more

Holly Willoughby pens emotional post on the importance of teaching her children about racism

‘It’s the responsibility I have as a parent’: Holly Willoughby shares emotional post on the importance of teaching her children about racism after George Floyd’s death By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 23:46 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 04:04 BST, 31 May 2020 Holly Willoughby has shared an emotional post on the responsibility she … Read more

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN asks who runs Britian as teaching firebrands exposed for ministers to ransom 

Back when I was an industrial correspondent in the Seventies and Eighties, we had a word for employees who refused to go to work. It was called a ‘strike’. The unions withdrew their labour and their members didn’t get paid. Most of the time, these strikes were over money, even though Britain was an economic … Read more

Doctors U-turn on support for teaching unions and say schools SHOULD reopen if they are safe

Doctors U-turn on support for teaching unions and say schools SHOULD reopen if they are safe – but doubts remain over June 1 date as scientists say track and trace must be in place first Chair of BMA’s Public Health Medicine Committee said there is ‘growing evidence that the risk to individual children from Covid-19 … Read more