Teachers in Flintshire have gone on strike over management issues.

Members of the NASUWT - the Teachers’ Union at Connah’s Quay High School are taking the first of six planned days of strike action today.

A spokesman for the union said the action is over ‘adverse management practices which are having a detrimental effect on the working conditions and welfare of members’.

Rex Phillips, NASUWT national official for Wales, said: “Our members responded positively to the progress that had been made between the NASUWT, the governors and the local authority but have been stunned by the failure of the school management to recognise and acknowledge the problems that exist within the school.

“Their hopes for an improvement in the working practices which are being visited on them have been dashed.  

“Command and control management has no place in our schools. 

“Collegiality and cooperation must be the order of the day, if staff are to feel valued and that their professional opinions will be respected. 

“The NASUWT remains willing to engage with the employer to work towards this objective.”

Claire Homard, Flintshire Council’s interim director of education and youth, said: “The chair of governors and headteacher have taken appropriate measures to keep the disruption for pupils to a minimum and to keep parents and carers informed. 

“The local authority has been kept fully informed.

“The school will be open to all pupils in years 10 and 11 but closed to pupils in years 7, 8 and 9. 

“There will be no disruption to pupils involved in external examinations.”