It comes as teachers have raised concerns about the workload implications of being asked to deliver increasing levels of remote education on top of their existing teaching duties in school.
Official statistics show that on September 24 only 84 per cent of state secondary schools were fully open – down from 92 per cent on September 17 (DfE, 2020).
Of those not fully open, the DfE analysis said this was “mostly due to Covid-19 related reasons”.
“Fully open” is defined as being able to “provide face-to-face teaching for all pupils on roll for the whole school day and that they have not asked a group of pupils to self-isolate”.
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