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Skateboarding added as GCSE sport after teenager's campaign
Education
Osian George, 15, says he is proud his two -year campaign to have skateboarding added to GCSE PE has succeeded
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'Shifting a few weeks of holiday around the school year is moving the deckchairs on the Titanic'
Wales schools
Teaching union official Neil Butler lays out a powerful rebuttal of the plan to fiddle with the school calendar, saying schools can't be "the answer for all of the ills of society"
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Picture of shuttered secondary school toilet causes angry row
Wales schools
The Welsh secondary school claims the image has been 'used for social media collateral to make what are completely false claims'
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Wales' schools minister gives bizarre response to review of teachers' pay and conditions
Welsh Government
The new Welsh Government education minister Lynne Neagle has responded to an independent review of teachers' working conditions and pay
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The huge challenges facing Wales' new Education Minister
Welsh Government
Wales' new Education Minister Lynne Neagle will have a large in-tray as she starts her new job
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Teacher awarded £150,000 after being assaulted by pupil in school
Wales schools
The teacher, who worked at a school for boys with social, emotional and behavioural issues, was left with injuries to his face, mouth and head after he was punched and headbutted
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New Welsh Government should stick with shorter school summer holidays plans, expert says
Welsh Government
If proposed changes go ahead school year dates in Wales will change as early as October 2025
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Wales' education reforms not working and need to be halted, explosive report on falling standards finds
GCSE results
A major new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies laid the blame for declining attainment at the door of policy rather than poverty
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Parents frustrated as pupils turned down for school places despite being in catchment
Wales schools
A number of children in catchment for Ysgol Glantaf in Cardiff have been refused places because it is oversubscribed
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The school and college staff struck off or disciplined this term including for inappropriate use of a tampon
Wales schools
One teacher stuck a tampon up his nose while another friended an under-18-year-old former pupil on Facebook
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Plans to close last single-sex council-run high schools in Wales
Wales schools
Pupils from Lewis Girls School in Ystrad Mynach and Lewis School Pengam would move to one site under Caerphilly Council plans
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What inspectors say about the most oversubscribed secondary schools in Newport
Newport
We look at what Estyn says about the three over subscribed high schools in Newport
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Welsh Government to pay for all 'bubbly concrete' RAAC repairs in schools
Welsh Government
£2.56m will be used to cover the costs of remedial works to schools where reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) has been identified
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Mum fined £1,000 after her son missed school for two years
Wales schools
His mother has been fined more than £1,000 and says she doesn't know how she'll afford to pay and she couldn't force her son to go to lessons
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Pupils in area's biggest town can't get into Welsh medium school
Wales schools
It is understood 14 pupils in Holyhead have been rejected from Ysgol Uwchradd Bodedern
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Teachers at top private school walk out in row over pensions and pay
Wales schools
Teachers members of the NEU at the Cathedral School in Llandaff, Cardiff, went on strike in a dispute over pay and pensions. They will walk out again next week after talks broke down
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Teachers consider strike action over Welsh Government plans to cut school summer holidays
Wales schools
Teachers are being asked whether they want to vote for strike action over Welsh Government proposals to cut the school summer holidays from six weeks to four or five weeks
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Re-opening date confirmed for Swansea comprehensive school shut for weeks after 'ground movement' on site
Swansea
The council said 'a huge amount of work' had taken place over the last three weeks to try and resolve the issue
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Legal bid to bring back free school holiday food for poorest pupils ends as Welsh Government can't afford it
Welsh Government
It was introduced during the pandemic and ran until May 2023
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Teacher's Facebook messages with child read out as he is warned it 'must not happen again'
Wales schools
Award-winning science teacher Shôn Prebble has been told he can carry on working in schools after messaging a child saying: 'I bet you can’t say you have spoken to a teacher in bed before'
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Parent who failed to send children to school and took them on holiday in term time has to pay £700
Wales schools
A parent who failed to send their children to school and took them on holiday in term time has been prosecuted and ordered to pay nearly £700 in fines and costs
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Award-winning teacher fired after adding and messaging ex-pupil on Facebook
Wales schools
Shôn Gwynedd Prebble, who accepted a Facebook friend request and exchanged messages with a former pupil who was aged under 18, was sacked from his job at Ysgol Bryn Alyn in Wrexham
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England urged to take Wales' lead and cut school summer holiday to four weeks
Wales schools
Similar proposals by the Welsh Government have been heavily criticised by teaching unions
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Parents at Welsh schools shocked by letter from headteachers
Wales schools
The letter warns of 'extreme financial cuts'
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