Hello and welcome back to the Tes News Podcast.

On this week's episode reporters Matilda Martin and Callum Mason discuss the first of the NEU’s seven planned strike days earlier this week. What happened on the day, how schools were affected and what might happen next.

And Dan Worth covers how one school luckily avoided the worst of a cyberattack, and how they fought back so that it won't happen again.

Stories discussed on today's episode are available on tes.com/magazine:

• Teacher strikes: ‘It’s a joke to say we’re letting pupils down’
• How our school fought back after a cyberattack
• Teacher strikes: what will happen next?
• How schools dealt with teacher strikes