Students from some of north London’s most exclusive schools allegedly caused £15,000 of damage to the Hampstead property after renting it for £750 for one night to celebrate the end of their exams.

Stanbridge Earls School (pictured), in Hampshire, has announced it will close in December and another school has been lined up to take over the site.

Plans to replace most course work and modular tests that pupils currently undertake as part of their GCSEs with more rigorous end-of-course exams could affect Muslim pupils who are fasting or girls who fall pregnant.

The man, identified only as Ephraim S., immigrated last year to Israel after being fired from his job as a teacher at the Cheider school in Buitenveldert near Amsterdam, De Telegraaf reported on Friday. The Orthodox school …

In a turnaround of tradition, teachers at Honiton Community College in Devon played a practical joke on leaving Year 11 students by dancing in the background as pupils are interviewed for a leavers’ video.

The 1100 children who will attend the Jane Austen Academy in Norwich will stay at school until as late as 5pm instead of getting homework.

Two-fifths of 11-year-olds are incapable of covering 25m unaided, according to a survey. This is up from a third 12 months ago who were found to be entering secondary school without the basic skill.

Emma McKendrick, headmistress at £31,000-per year all-girls boarding school Downe House, wrote to parents last week detailing the girls’ wild behaviour and ‘excesses’.

A Cumbria primary school with only 61 students has five sets of twins. Three-year-old Harry and Reuben Fife have joined Crosthwaite Primary near Kendal. One sixth of the village school’s student population is a twin.

Pupils at Thomas a Becket Middle School in Worthing, West Sussex, will have to pass a safety test to get the ‘scooter permit’ to ride to school.