To school staff everywhere this morning – whether your school is opening more widely or not – good luck. You’re doing amazing work in the most extraordinary of circumstances. We’re with you all the way.
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- BREAKING: Government #Uturn means both A levels and GCSEs will be awarded based on teacher-assessed grades. Students will receive whichever is higher: CAGs or moderated grades. #alevels2020 #GCSE2020
- All schools and colleges in England will be supplied with period products that will available to students for free from Monday, as part of a @educationgovuk scheme to tackle #periodpoverty bit.ly/2R10qrJ
- 'I know how hard it is," says First Lady. "I am teaching hybrid this semester myself. And I have to tell you, you know the one thing I love about educators is that we all help one another."
- The proportion of A level grades at grade A and above has seen a rise at private schools this year more than double any type of state school, @ofqual data reveals. #AlevelResults #alevels2020
- BREAKING... Risk would be halved if return to school delayed by a fortnight, 'Independent SAGE' committee concludes tes.com/news/coronavir…
- A head teacher has found a way of showing new pupils around his school during the lockdown by recreating it brick for brick on the game Minecraft. tes.com/news/coronavir…
- Parents heap praise on 'invaluable' teachers and 'amazing' schools for their efforts during the pandemic - in a backlash against @GavinWilliamson call for them to report schools to @Ofstednews over remote learning provision
- ‘Teachers are hugely important in helping to protect students from bullies, and also to try to help the students who are bullying to understand why that’s unacceptable in a school environment or outside a school environment,’ says @ChelseaClinton tes.com/news/chelsea-c…
- BREAKING: Experienced teachers are to get a 5% pay award in 2022-23 and teacher starting salaries will see an 8.9% uplift in September this year, reaching £28,000, @educationgovuk has announced
- "I don’t want people to perpetuate the lie, and it is a lie, that social distancing [in schools] is possible, it just isn’t,” says @Miss_Snuffy
- Legal campaigners @GoodLawProject prepare Judicial review case against @ofqual after receiving a deluge of examples of students impacted by the #alevelresults controversy
- 'Enabling trans-identified children to use toilets for the opposite sex is possibly indirect discrimination against other children,' writes lawyer @RebeccaMKBull, as she calls for official guidance on how schools should support trans-identified children
- The new website, Mentally Healthy Schools, is set to be launched by the Duchess of Cambridge today and will host more than 1,500 online teaching resources on student mental health bit.ly/2DCCbKm

