Primary

Tuesday

21st Mar 2023

Reception Baseline test to go digital from 2024
But schools may struggle to buy extra devices with stretched budgets, leaders warn
Boy looking at digital device

Thursday

16th Mar 2023

Unfunded school childcare plan not ‘sustainable’
School and sector leaders question feasibility of Treasury’s new ambition for all primaries to offer wraparound care
Unfunded school childcare plan not 'sustainable'

Thursday

9th Mar 2023

Sats results delay ‘disappointing’ and ‘avoidable’
Schools won’t get key stage 2 results until 11 July due to the coronation bank holiday
SATs results’ delay ‘disappointing’
Call for urgent pay talks ahead of Budget
The NASUWT teaching union has said members’ patience is being ‘tested to the limit’
Call for urgent pay talks ahead of budget

Wednesday

8th Mar 2023

Early years language catch-up scheme ‘beneficial’ but time consuming
The DfE-funded Nuffield Early Language Intervention helped with Reception pupils’ Covid recovery despite staff shortages, report finds
Early years: Language catch-up scheme ‘beneficial’ but time-consuming

Tuesday

28th Feb 2023

Sats 2022: 3 in 5 heads’ calls to exams helpline unanswered
1 in 5 primary schools was also told that Sats results would be delayed for some pupils, Ofqual report finds
Phone

Thursday

26th Jan 2023

Well-taught Reception pupils ‘likely to earn more’
Pupils in the ‘most effective’ Reception classes can expect to earn between £2,000 and £7,500 more on average than their peers, research shows
child calculator money

Thursday

12th Jan 2023

Councils ‘need power to close academies with falling rolls’
London Councils group warns the government that falling pupil numbers will ‘put further pressure’ on school budgets
Empty classroom

Tuesday

10th Jan 2023

Scottish free school meals pledge to remain undelivered by August 2024
Universal free school meals were supposed to be in place in primary by August 2022 – but the pledge won’t even be fully realised two years after that
Dinner line sticker

Thursday

5th Jan 2023

Primary teachers to get pupil careers training
New £2.6m government scheme will provide training and support to teachers in 55 Education Investment Areas
Teacher in classroom

Wednesday

28th Dec 2022

Union condemns ‘shameful’ delay in free meals for P6-7s
Full rollout of free school meals to all primary pupils now looks like it will happen, at best, two years after original target date
Teaching union condemns ‘shameful’ delay in free meals for P6-7s

Thursday

22nd Dec 2022

Legal challenge over sex education in Wales rejected
High Court judge rules against campaigners who challenged the teaching of relationships and sexuality education in primary schools
Campaigners lose legal challenge over sex education in Welsh primaries