The joint action by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the NASUWT was the first in a series of planned regional walk-outs which are also in protest at wider government education policy.
Last week’s strike was thought to have affected 2,765 schools across 22 local authority areas, with rallies held in Liverpool, Manchester, Preston and Chester.
The unions have said action will spread to other parts of the country in the autumn with a national one-day strike scheduled to take place before Christmas.
The Department for Education (DfE) said the action had disrupted education and inconvenienced parents. Michael Gove, the education secretary, had met with the unions before the strike went ahead, but no agreement was reached. In May, he wrote to the unions stressing that the “direction of travel” of his policies was “fixed”.
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