Boris Johnson’s aim to have all primary-aged children return to school for a month before the summer holidays was dealt a blow yesterday when governors and head teachers said that it would be impossible to achieve.
As schools started reopening their gates to some year groups, Downing Street said that the government’s ambition to have the remaining children back by the start of next month was “under review”.
Britain’s biggest head teachers’ union said that a full return before the summer would not be possible because many schools were too small for it to be completed safely.
In a poll of 2,350 school governors for the National Governance Association three in four said it was unlikely that pupils would be back for a full month.
