A school has banned pencil cases over fears poorer students are missing classes because they are ashamed of their stationery. St Wilfrid's Primary School in Blyth, Northumberland is among a number of ...

Join me in this engaging video as I prepare for my students' first day of school by making customized pencils! Watch the ...

A school pencil case used to cost a few pence and consist of a simple zip-up pouch where you kept your... pencils. But for today’s children it is an expensive fashion accessory that’s causing so much ...

A headteacher has banned fancy pencil and posh backpacks after experts claimed it costs children almost £600 a year to join in. Pauline Johnstone, head at at St Wilfrid's Primary School in Blyth, ...

Parents protesting outside Camborne Science and International Academy this morning (Picture: BPM Media) Angry parents claim a school is dishing out ‘severe’ punishments to their children for minor ...

EVESHAM – The box was piled so high with pencils, they spilled over the sides. At Richard L. Rice Elementary School, students recently completed a two-week drive to collect pencils for students in ...

A mum has slammed her daughter's school for asking pupils to bring in their own pencils as they run low on supplies. The woman explained how she received an email from her daughter's maths teacher ...

Headteachers have warned that schools are “on a knife edge” due to strained budgets, forcing them to launch a campaign to fund the basics such as books and pencils. Schools are having to cut back on ...

PUPILS as young as four have been banned from taking pencil cases to school - in case they are used to smuggle sharp weapons. The drastic action was taken after a boy was cut with a letter opener ...