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A royal wedding party and a school bike ride – one head on what her pupils are looking forward to now the pressure’s off

The number of children living in ‘relative poverty’ is increasing at an alarming rate – and our system is allowing them to slip through the cracks, into obscurity and despair, writes one headteacher

Headteacher Siobhan Collingwood embedded a culture of zero-tolerance in her school. Within a year, she’d scrapped the system. Here, she explains why

One headteacher describes the harsh realities of poverty for the children in her school and thanks those who donated whatever they could to make the children’s Christmases a little brighter

The public services squeeze, funding cuts and increasing accountability mean that schools are struggling to stay afloat, writes one headteacher

We can’t keep throwing young lives away by failing to bend our systems around them – fragile and vulnerable children need extra support when dealing with the transition from primary to secondary, writes one headteacher