Call for immediate shutdown of Scots schools from teaching union

Ogilvie School Campus in November, can lead to the school closing for a period of time.

East Kilbride has been thrown into a tough lockdown as the First Minister ordered the people of Scotland to stay at home for the rest of the month.

school has called for the immediate return of pupils to the classroom while branding Covid restrictions on kids “the stuff of nonsense”.Rod Grant, who runs the Clifton Hall School in Edinburgh, penned an impassioned plea entitled “children no longer matter” and said youngsters were fast becoming lockdown’s “collateral damage”.The head claimed he had seen a dramatic spike in pupils self harming and contemplating suicide at his Newbridge school, which charges almost £13,000 a year for seniors, and

coronavirus cases. From Tuesday, Scottish residents will be legally required to stay at home with few exceptions in a move similar to that of the March lockdown.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterMainland Scotland will go into a full national lockdown from midnight in a bid to get to grips with the rising number of coronavirus cases.The grim news was delivered by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon this afternoon at the Scottish Parliament after MSPs were recalled for an emergency sitting.She described the current Covid situation as "extremely serious" with decisions made at a cabinet

variant, which is responsible for a large number of infections in Scotland, has resulted in the Government extending online learning. The move, which applies to all parts of Scotland, will be reviewed in mid January.

Covid-19 pandemic.Cases have soared in the wake of Christmas and New Year celebrations.The worrying stats called re-opening schools as planned into question.Nicola Sturgeon is set to announce new lockdown ­measures on Monday.On her agenda is a potential plan to shut schools for the next month.Schools in Scotland are due to return full-time on January 18 – but a rise in infections has prompted plans for a longer school shutdown.While some Scots think keeping kids in the classroom is all wrong,

Sturgeon is set to recall Holyrood on Monday as the Scottish cabinet meets to consider the possibility of keeping schools closed throughout January to fight the surge in new coronavirus cases.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Councillors have expressed cross-party support for local authority employees to receive the same £500 bonus being awarded to health workers.Members of North Lanarkshire Council’s Joint Consultative Committee for local government employees unanimously agreed to send an official letter to the Scottish Government supporting calls from trade unions that its recently announced bonus fails to acknowledge the work

school closures after the festive period could still be on the cards due to a sharp increase in covid infections linked to the new mutated strain. The First Minister confirmed this week 42.8 per cent of positive tests processed for Scotland are now thought to be the fast-spreading form of coronavirus.

Glasgow today. Police were called to a property in Jura Street in the Govan area at around 9.20am this morning after receiving reports of the sudden death of the child.

lockdown helped him shed over ten stone in 2020. The Highland councillor, who ballooned to 27 stone says he’s half the man he used to be - and he's delighted about it.

Celtic must deal with Dundee United if they want to go to Ibrox all guns blazing. The Hoops ace understands Old Firm fever is building in the West of Scotland as the Glasgow giants prepare to square up in Govan on Saturday.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterCouncillors voted to close the schools in North Ayrshire early after the area recorded the highest weekly Covid  infection rate in Scotland.But is claimed the Scottish Government refused to allow the region’s schools to switch to online learning.North Ayrshire’s virus case rate hit 205 per 100,000 between December 12 and 18 according to Public Health Scotland figures.  It is the only council region

manhunt has been launched for two masked thugs who stole hundreds of pounds from a Scots petrol station after holding it up with a weapon. The 'terrifying' early morning raid happened at the Jet filling station in Bothwell Street, Dunfermline, around 4.40am on Monday December 21.

bomb squad has been called to a busy Scots call centre after the discovery of a ‘suspicious package’.The alarm was raised at the Tesco Customer Engagement Centre in Dundee shortly after 10am on Monday.Police locked down the surrounding roads including the city’s Kingsway as a precaution.Staff were also been evacuated from the building ‘as a precaution’ while emergency services dealt with the ongoing incident.A spokesperson for Police Scotland said:"We were made aware around 10.10am on Monday, 21