Sam Tuckett, senior researcher at the Education Policy Institute (EPI), writes in Tes warning that much more needs to be done to prevent next year’s exam students becoming the hardest hit by COVID yet.

Tes rounds up what schools need to know about COVID guidance in the final week of term. By John Roberts.

Schools and councils have been accused of ignoring official official advice in deciding to ban parents from attending their children’s sports days. By Camilla Turner, The Telegraph.

iNews reports on findings from the latest Period Equality study by hygiene provider phs Group, which indicate that period poverty has become worse among young girls in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic. By Aasma Day.

A team of pupils from St Paul’s Girls’ School in London has won a £20,000 prize after designing, developing and coding an app that can interpret British Sign Language (BSL) and translate it into spoken English as well as translate spoken English into BSL videos. By Charles Moloney, The Times.

Children’s authors have described the new reading framework for teachers, which was published by the Department for Education, as "simplistic and potentially damaging". By Nicola Woolcock, The Times.

Labour has claimed that a decade of underinvestment has resulted in the number of creative arts students and teachers falling by as much as a fifth in some subjects. By Sally Weale, The Guardian.

Schools Week details eight things we learned from Ofsted’s 2020-21 annual report. By James Carr.

Nicola Dandridge, the head of the Office for Students (OfS), has voiced concern after this year's annual National Student Survey found only 42% felt enough was done to support their mental wellbeing. BBC News.

The Times reports on 'the great school scramble', claiming that families are enrolling their children in schools before they have even found a place to live. By Carol Lewis.

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