Teachers went on strike over funding cuts and workloads.

Classes were affected at Poynton High School and Marton, Adlington, Gawsworth, Hollinhey, Rainow and Christ the King Catholic and Church of England primary schools as a result of the strikes yesterday (July 5),

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) called the action over funding cuts and workloads, with a number of Macclesfield teachers joining a protest march in Manchester.

Carl Taylor, who teaches at Tytherington School, said teachers did not take the decision to strike lightly. He said: “Under academisation, the attack on teachers’ pay and conditions, the perpetuation of punitive funding formulas for schools and the constant pressure to narrow the curriculum are damaging our children’s education.

“The government has frozen funding and increased costs for schools. Pay scales once designed to keep good teachers are being undermined and even dismantled.

“Headteachers are struggling to sustain the employment of experienced teaching staff without making savage cuts elsewhere.

“I do not take the decision to strike lightly but I feel the damage being done to education may be irreversible.”