Primary-elementary articles
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Hills Elementary students to move to Alexander Elementary School after closure
Iowa City Community School District teachers are working behind the scenes to transition Hills Elementary School students to Alexander Elementary School by this fall following the school’s closure. Starting this fall, all Hills students will attend Alexander Elementary School at 3571 Sycamore St., along with six teachers and 10 support staff. Alexander is almost three
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Sheffield primary schools: 13 city primary schools handing out the most suspensions revealed
Suspending children from school is something we rarely see from educators, especially at primary level. Teachers aim to keep kids in school, where they are safe, fed and learning. However, for a multitude of reasons, senior leadership can and do decide to temporarily suspend pupils from school. Suspensions and permanent exclusions data, published in a Gov.uk package in April 2024, includes figures revealing which Sheffield primary schools handed out the most suspensions in the 2021-22 academic...
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Sheffield Primary Schools: The 7 city primary schools to issue permanent exclusions to pupils
It is extremely rare for educators to decide that a pupil cannot return to their schools - it is the absolute last resort, when all other options have been exhausted. Children must be in education. It is a legal requirement and means if a child is subject to a permanent exclusion from one school then the local authority must arrange full-time education as soon as possible. They are so rare that in Sheffield only seven of the 153 primary schools within the local authority issued them in the...