Others students refused to sit at the ‘macabre’ desks at the school in Irkutsk, Russia, which display pictures of dead national guardsmen.

Gregory Hill, 47, claimed he had a panic attack before he fell to the ground and officers ‘piled’ on top of him as he arrived at Howard Junior School in King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

A TikTok video shows Prince William, 40, joking with schoolchildren on a video call while he met with one of the pupil’s mothers at Ipswich Hospital last week on a surprise visit.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: It is becoming ever clearer just how devastating school closures during the pandemic were for a generation of children.

Images obtained by the Jewish Chronicle showed several students, believed to be around sixth-form age, laughing and giggling as they performed Sieg Heil salutes in the direction of the stage.

Trevelyan Middle School in Windsor has released a chilling video warning that middle class pupils are at risk of being blackmailed into county lines drug dealing by gangs who groom and exploit them

The former PM’s think-tank, The Tony Blair Institute (TBI), wants A Level and GCSE exams to be replaced by ‘continuous assessment’, with pupils getting just one general qualification at 18.

The authors of a new book claim a ‘chilling’ warning about the devastating impact school closures would have on pupils during the pandemic was ignored.

Nicola Sturgeon’s government has launched a consultation on the proposal, which says reforming uniform policy will remove ‘unnecessary rules around what each gender should wear’.

The new government guidance is expected to offer headteachers clarity on the use of facilities and changing rooms, and provide more information on potential safeguarding measures.