Education

How well your child does at school can depend on the month they're born in

Welsh Government data and other research says summer-born children get lower academic grades and results

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Headteacher issues important message all parents should read about children and mobile phones

Sarah Parry issued the social media phone guide after parents said they were concerned about the amount of time their children spend on it and the potential harm

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Teachers dread working at school where violent pupils use them as punchbags

Teachers at Pencoedtre High are striking calling on the local authority to take tougher action

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Teachers will walk out at Welsh high school in row over 'poor' pupil behaviour

Members of Nasuwt Cymru are taking action at Pencoedtre High in Barry

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All the deadlines in Wales for primary school applications to start reception in September

Dates vary around Wales, for some deadlines are looming, others aren't yet open and some are closed.

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All the children expelled and excluded from schools in Wales last term and the reasons why

Thousands of fixed term exclusions were issued and more than 60 pupils were booted out permanently

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The free school meals being offered in every part of Wales in 2024

The offer depends where children live and go to school. For those who still pay for school meals, prices vary by as much as 60p.

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Thousands of fines issued to parents in Wales for not sending their children to school

Fines range from £60 to £120 and some parents have also been prosecuted with court costs added

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'I became a teacher when I was nearly 50 and despite the workload have no regrets'

Kate Morgan was a computer programmer, teaching assistant, and full-time parent before training as a secondary school teacher as the oldest on her PGCE course

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The full list of school and education staff disciplined or banned from classrooms this term

School staff who sold drugs and talked to a pupil about having sex with a colleague in a staff room were among those banned from the classroom

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The school which takes children other schools won’t

Headlands School in Penarth takes pupils aged seven to 19 with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties, challenging behaviour and autistic spectrum disorders

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Wales' education minister tells English counterpart not to trample on devolution

"[Wales] will not participate in this fundamentally flawed exercise"

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School tells pupils told to hand in their phones at the start of every day and everything improves

The policy has improved attendance, behaviour and learning and reduced bullying, the school says

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'I'm a teacher and these are the Christmas gifts we secretly hate'

A US primary teacher has shared her controversial view on Tiktok

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Classroom helper who spent £4,700 of PTA funds on Amazon hears if she can continue working in schools

Nicola Demmer-Evans said she hadn't noticed she was using a PTA debit card when she made more than 90 transactions over three months on Amazon

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School has totally banned mobile phones and the results are absolutely staggering

Llanidloes High School

It has not been popular but the transformation can't be denied

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School attendance figures are improving in Cardiff but still causing 'strain' on admissions

The number of children being educated at home or excluded from school have increased since pre-pandemic years

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People in Wales are the least well qualified in the UK and this is why it matters, says university chief

Welsh Government

The comments from Professor Elizabeth Treasure follow results out this week showing teenagers in Wales have the lowest scores on reading, maths and science in the UK and many other countries

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Teacher who grabbed and smacked vulnerable pupil is banned from the classroom

The incident had an 'impact' on the pupil, who is non-verbal and has autism, a professional standards panel heard

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The man responsible for Welsh schools defends why standards have dropped

Welsh Government

Education Minister Jeremy Miles said he is confident Wales' education reforms are working. But he will meet with school leaders in January to discuss the poor results

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Pisa results in 2023 show school standards in Wales drop so far it's like losing whole YEAR of learning

The Pisa tests, carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation (OECD), are the latest global rankings for education and show pupils in Wales have fallen further in reading, maths, and science compared to peers across the border

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Schools in Wales expected to fall further behind in latest international Pisa rankings

Wales has lagged behind the rest of the UK in the international Pisa tests taken every four years since first taking part in 2006

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Wales' top secondary schools named by The Sunday Times

They are ranked according to the first post-pandemic exam results

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Three-quarters of Brits feel UK education system is too 'one-size fits all', study finds

More than seven in ten wish they had taken more creative subjects at school - but two-thirds felt pressured to go down a more academic route, the research found

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