Lunchtime is one more lesson on what a healthy meal should look like.
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Busting the myths on grammar schools.
New analysis shows access to grammar schools is highly skewed by a child’s socioeconomic status.
Crunching the numbers on the latest school performance data.
The reintroduction of grammar schools means that once again schools and headteachers will be required to make sense of contradictory national policies.
Families are falling deeper into poverty when school holidays come, just to feed their children.
More than 15 million children live in homes that do not have enough food. However, the number of children taking advantage of free breakfast in schools is low. What can schools do?
Researchers have found that allowing use of mobile phones in schools harms low-achieving and low-income students the most.
Labour’s Ed Miliband says that advantaged pupils are much more likely to go to university. Is he right?
The Lib Dems have promised to invest heavily in the schools budget.
Plaid hits out at the “smacking defence” in otherwise typical education manifesto.
It’s official: poverty in England is getting worse. Britain is on the verge of becoming a nation deeply and permanently divided by poverty, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission…
We should be concerned about our children’s diets. In 2011, nearly 10% of four to five-year-olds in the UK were classified as obese. By the time they leave primary school, nearly 20% of children are obese…
With the greatest will in the world, packed lunches often end up full of whatever happens to be left in the fridge or what can be grabbed on a tightly scheduled school run. But this can all now change…
Schools in England will now be able to prioritise children from poor families when deciding who gets a place. This sounds a fair and sensible policy, intended to promote “social mobility” and equality…
As September approaches, primary schools up and down the country are preparing to roll out universal free school lunches for all children in reception, year 1 and year 2. But if all meals are free, what…
From September, state-funded infant and primary schools in England will have a legal duty to offer free meals at lunchtime to all pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2. A decision championed by deputy…
Well done Nick! Free school meals for infant school children may cost the government our well earned cash but this initiative could bring so many more benefits than just healthier lunches. There are three…
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