"A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure - though staff will return to classrooms with "very limited access" to IT systems. Higham Lane School in Nuneaton confirmed in a January 16 update that all pupils from Year 7 through Year 13 will return to full-time in-person teaching from January 19, following a staggered, year-by-year return that began earlier this month."
"The school was struck by what it has repeatedly described as a "serious cyberattack" shortly after the Christmas break, an incident that wiped out access to core IT systems and forced Higham Lane to close entirely on safety grounds. The outage went far beyond email and classroom software, leaving the school unable to operate basic physical safety systems."
"In an earlier update on January 12, the school confirmed the attack did not just compromise IT systems and involve the "removal of data," but also deactivated "several crucial systems," including electronic gates used to secure the site, the fire alarm, and electronic registers needed to account for students during the school day. Without those safeguards, leaders said, keeping the site open would have been unsafe."
Higham Lane School in Nuneaton will fully reopen to all Year 7–13 pupils for full-time in-person teaching from January 19 after a cyberattack forced an extended closure. Normal timetables will resume, but staff will have very limited access to IT systems, so lessons will rely on non-electronic resources. The cyberattack wiped out core IT systems, removed data, and deactivated several crucial systems including electronic gates, the fire alarm, and electronic registers, which made the site unsafe. Closure decisions followed advice from Department for Education and police cyber experts. Staff worked evenings and weekends for nearly two weeks to restore operations.
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