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Mar 7, 2021 · Throughout the pandemic, the Prime Minister and Chief Medical Officer have been clear of the benefits that being in school brings to the physical and mental health of children and young people.
Schools are closed from the following day, though vulnerable children and those of key workers may still attend, and pre-school remains open, while university students will not return to campus but instead have online tuition.
- Which Education Settings Are Opening on 8 March?
- What About Higher Education Students Whose Courses Are Not Practical?
- What About Special Schools and Alternative Provision?
- What About Wraparound Childcare, Early Years and Nursery Provision?
- How Has The Approach Been Guided by Scientific Evidence?
- Will Attendance Be Mandatory?
Primary school children, secondary school pupils and college students as well as university students on practical courses who need access to specialist facilities and equipment will all return on Monday 8th March. All secondary school and college students will take three COVID-19 tests as they return to the classroom from the 8 March at existing sc...
We will review, by the end of the Easter holidays, the options for timing of the return of remaining students. Students and providers will be given a week’s notice ahead of any further return. Twice weekly testing will continue to be available for all on campus.
Special schools, special post-16 providers, and alternative provision have remained open to vulnerable children and young people, including those with Educational Health Care Plans, and to the children of critical workers. Because of this, many settings have continued to offer face to face provision for the vast majority, if not all, of their pupil...
Wraparound childcare will be open to parents who need to access it to work, attend education or seek medical care, and to vulnerable children. Early years and nursery provision has remained open to all throughout the lockdown.
We have and continue to take the safety of all education staff extremely seriously, and our guidance for all education settings has been based on the best medical advice. Public Health England continues to advise that the existing range of safety measures in place in education settings remains appropriate. We have strengthened existing protective m...
School attendance will be mandatory for all pupils from 8 March. The usual rules on school attendance apply. Schools and colleges will have discretion on how to phase the return of their students over that week to allow them to be tested on return.
Nov 2, 2021 · In the summer of 1942 in Nazi-occupied France, French actor Sandrine Kiberlain’s Jewish grandparents received a visit from a local gendarme in the small country town where they were living....
Mar 8, 2021 · Pupils in England are beginning to return to school this morning after months of remote learning under the first step to ease COVID-19 restrictions. All children are able to head back into the ...
Mar 8, 2021 · Millions of pupils in England, and many in Northern Ireland, go back to school this week. They join some kids from Scotland and Wales who started back in February.
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