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Revealed: How the arms industry is targeting Bristol’s secondary schools

From ‘colour your own F-35’ to missile simulators, arms companies are promoting STEM careers in schools, but obscuring their role in the bloody global arms trade. Teachers, union reps, and campaign groups are pushing back

Children ‘missing out’ on free school meals

How can schools address the long-term impacts of Covid-19 this academic year?

Coronavirus in Bristol

The Bristol Briefing: 2,500 pupils in Bristol self-isolating

Infections continue to rise rapidly in Bristol, causing disruption to waste services and schools.

Coronavirus in Bristol

Inside Bristol schools during a new academic year like no other

Reports

Bristol students ‘playing catch up’ to get uni places after A-levels fiasco

Revealed: Thousands of kids are being put in isolation, fuelling schools debate

A Bristol Cable investigation can reveal Bristol schools are sending children to isolation 1,000 times a week, shedding light on the controversial form of discipline where children are removed from class.

Action needed on shocking levels of teacher stress

Teachers' union survey exposes stress crisis in Bristol’s schools, exacerbated by cuts and unsustainable workloads. Could a ‘fair workload charter’ help?

Transforming mental health provision in schools?

Therapists and educators criticise the government’s proposed changes to how mental health services are delivered.

School cuts: difficult questions at Education Question Time

What did we learn about party positions on education from the Bradley Stoke and Filton parliamentary candidates’ ‘Education Question Time’?

Teacher redundancies hit Bristol

Widespread staff losses and restructuring amid ‘devastating’ and ‘unprecedented’ cuts in Bristol schools.

Shock levels of assaults on teachers revealed

Teachers report shock levels of violence at work, as the school cuts crisis continues to see teaching and support staff levels slashed across the city.