Schools in Northern Ireland have been praised for keeping children safe and helping them continue to learn amid the disorder prompted by a knife attack in Belfast.

A 137-year-old private school has shut just days after its head teacher claimed it had been saved from closure.

School pupils will learn how to plant a wildflower-friendly garden, according to long-awaited plans announced on Thursday for a natural history GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

A record 1.8 million children in the UK have special educational needs (SEN), an increase of 91,400 (5%) on the previous year.

What if a curriculum was organised not around subjects, but around the full range of human activities and possibilities?

Nearly half (45 per cent) of the children surveyed in a new report from researchers at LSE and the University of Oslo said age-based restrictions on social media would not make them feel any safer online.