Four staff members at Blackwood Primary School have been forced to resign or take stress leave due to a student who kicked, hit and spat on both students and teachers, it has been claimed.

“It was a great journey,” Louth teacher Jim McGee says as he retires after 41 years, the last sixteen of which he was administrative principal of Monastery National School, Ardee.

A primary school in northern Victoria informs parents that police have charged one of its staff members with possession of child abuse material.

A National Gallery initiative for more than 500 county school children, inspired by a Canaletto masterpiece, culminated in an exhibition of their artwork at Waterside.

Paul Corrigan died at St Mary's Primary School in Killyclogher, County Tyrone. A man has died in a serious incident at a school in the Old Mountfield Road area of Killyclogher, County Tyrone.