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Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY OCTOBER 5 File photo dated 27/11/2019 of school children during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshire. Disadvantaged primary school pupils remain months behind their peers in reading and mathematics skills after Covid-19, a report suggests. The attainment gap between Year 3 and 4 pupils eligible for free school meals and their peers is wider than before the pandemic, according to the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) study. But the research suggests that the learning gap suffered by young pupils as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic is starting to narrow. Issue date: Thursday October 5, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story EDUCATION Disadvantage. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

No sex education in schools 'until children are nine' guidance to say

Schools will be told to delay explicit topics, such as contraception and STIs, until children are 13, according to reports

Our son didn't get into his first choice primary - because we didn't go to church for a month

State schools facing 'bankruptcy' and closure over existential funding threat

Article thumbnail: Parents at the school attended by Jeremy Hunt’s children could pay for 'traditional English tea for 2-4 people in the House of Commons' with the Chancellor and his wife Lucia

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