When fundraisers supporting a rural Shropshire primary school were set a £10,000 target to help pay for a new demountable classroom, they thought it would take them several years to secure the money.

Last week I was fortunate to attend a wonderful morning with about 50 primary school children, writes education blogger Kit Field.

On Friday, I was interviewed by BBC WM radio about Michael Gove’s proposals to make it easier to dismiss under-performing teachers, writes education blogger Kit Field.

Amid all the gloom that is around at the moment, there is one shaft of shining sunlight for Shropshire.

You may have seen on the news on how examiners and teachers may have colluded to help young people to predict examination questions, and thereby increase their chances of attaining high scores.

Paul Wiseman of the University of Wolverhampton discusses the state of Children’s Service and how it is having to change in the wake of funding cuts and job losses.

More schools in Shropshire have announced they will close next week as the Government warns trade union laws could be altered to make it more difficult to strike.

Staff and governors at a school in Market Drayton have pledged to build on encouraging findings in its latest Ofsted report, which praised improvements to its quality of teaching and the links with the local community.

Professor Kit Field of the University of Wolverhampton asks whether media coverage of education devalues the experiences of pupils and whether more positive programming is required:

Beginning school isn’t always easy for children or their parents, but the author of a new school survival guide gives tips to make it easier.

School’s out for summer for thousands of children across Shropshire after they broke up for the end of the academic year.

An 18-year-old Shropshire student in the final year of her A-levels is believed to be the first school-age author to have an article published in a national academic magazine.

Prince William and Kate Middleton may have been unable to make it, but nothing could ruin the big day for pupils at a Shropshire primary school as they celebrated their “marriage”.

Headteachers across England are becoming younger, with the number of female heads also increasing, data from the Training and Development Agency for Schools suggested today.

Education has become a “tick-box exercise” and is too exam-focused, headteachers were being told in Shropshire today.

Secondary schools across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin spent more than £2.2 million on supply teachers last year, new research suggests.

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LETTER: As a teacher in his second year of teaching it always intrigues me when people comment on teachers’ pay, teachers’ holidays and the fact that they have an “easy job working 9.00am until 3.30pm every day”.

LETTER: I would like to correct Mr Thomas on the scale for teaching – this can be variable depending on experience and where you teach – and is not always £600 a week as he stated in his letter.