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Education Secretary John Swinney says keeping schools open is the Government’s highest priority IT is safe for Scots children and teachers to be in school this week, the Education Secretary has insisted. John Swinney, who recently announced that classes for most youngsters will move online in January, said keeping schools open is the Government’s “highest priority”. The school Christmas break is being extended to January 11 for the majority of pupils, with remote learning then being in place until January 18 at the earliest. Swinney said he would “want to stick” to schools returning to face-to-face learning after that. But Larry Flanagan, the general secretary of the EIS teaching union, said that would depend on the prevalence of coronavirus in communities across Scotland.