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All schools in England are due to reopen fully on 8 March. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images
Headteachers fear that the reopening of England’s schools could be undermined because parents will not consent to Covid testing for their children and because guidance on the wearing of face masks in classes is unenforceable.
The warnings came after a slew of education announcements from the government, culminating in a flurry of guidance on summer assessments that will pile pressure on already overstretched teachers.
Announcing its plans this week for a full reopening of schools on 8 March, the government promised a series of measures designed to enhance Covid safety, including twice-weekly testing for secondary pupils and a recommendation to wear face coverings in classrooms.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces roadmap out of lockdown 3
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Updated: 08:43, 23 February 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out his roadmap out of lockdown and called it a one-way road to freedom .
Schools will reopen on March 8, with twice weekly testing, and after-school sports and activities will be allowed to restart.
Socially distanced one-to-one meetings with others outdoors in public spaces, such as for a coffee, will also be allowed. Care home residents can have a single visitor, provided they are tested and wear PPE.
From March 29, the rule of six will return and a new measure allowing two households to meet outdoors will be introduced.
Nimitz Way in Tilden Park. Chester Nimitz, the commander in chief of the US Pacific Fleet in WWII, moved to Berkeley in his later years. The popular Inspiration Point trail is named for him. Photo: Wikipedia/Creative Commons
They were children of the Victorian Era. Annapolis graduates around the turn of the twentieth century. Junior officers in World War I, captains by 1927. They gained their first admiral’s stars by the 1930s, and all four were near or past retirement age when war broke out. Yet they rose to the pinnacle of leadership in that war and played outsized roles in the Allied victory. And one by one, as their talents became unmistakably clear, they each received a fifth star, becoming the only five-star admirals in American history. Walter Borneman engagingly tells their stories in his joint biography,
He was the wartime Prime Minister regarded by many to be the greatest Briton who ever lived.
Sir Winston Churchill s leadership during the fight against Nazi Germany was symbolised by the indomitable spirit he championed in his numerous speeches to the British public.
But far from the symbol of strength which he represents, a new book details how the politician suffered from a barrage of ailments throughout his life.
Winston Churchill s Illnesses 1886-1965, by Allister Vale and John Scadding, sets out chapter by chapter each of the injuries, afflictions and accidents which befell Sir Winston.
Among them was the donation of a skin graft to help a wounded colleague while fighting at the famous Battle of Omduran in 1898 and the three bouts of pneumonia and a stroke suffered while in office.