Secondary school students will be regularly tested using rapid lateral flow tests on until Easter.

Face coverings will be compulsory in class, where social distancing is not possible.

In Scotland and Wales, some younger primary school Children started to return today, our education editor, Brandman Jeffries, reports now from Merseyside on anyway, just two weeks mawr of this key worker mums like Gemma dropping off, waiting for schools to go back to normal.

It's about the kids need the routine, They need the structures of the day.

And if we don't start getting back to normal soon, a child generation of Children have massive mental health social problems that we're not gonna be able to fix.

E from the school and the local bakery.

Food deliveries for parents First stop Is Tracy e ready for her son to go back?

E think it be better for the Children.

I think they need to be in school in, and they need to be mixing again the need to get baton normality.

But Joanne, with for a Home, told me she's less certain if it's not safe, I dropped the state off.

I really would.

I draw.

I drive to keep them at home if the time's not right for them to go back for primary pupils, no testing instead continued testing for staff to keep schools open.

Secondary schools already testing staff are gearing up for pupils.

We've got four deaths ready for testing When the students come back.

Teenagers will have to do four tests on return.

Three at school, one at home way.

Think we could do about 400 students?

450 student today, maximum on do it safely and properly risks on then from the prime minister.

More detail for schools to take in.

Secondary pupils will be asked to test twice a week at home.

I mean, I have concerns about how we ensure that the test at home are being done effectively and efficiently.

I also worry that it's not always easy to carry such tasks out at home by some parents.

So how are we going to guarantee that there's consistency off approach by everybody when these corridors start filling up is going to rely on a lot of trust trust in teenagers to test themselves properly on to report the results, because if they don't there's nothing a school conduce except appeal to their parents.

Teenagers will have to wear masks not just in corridors but in England's classrooms to wherever they can't socially distanced.

Northern Ireland has also advised masks in secondary classrooms.

Their return starts with primary pupils in two weeks.

In Wales, the youngest primary pupils were back today when teenagers return a promise of testing.

Scotland youngest also back today across the UK the first steps to get Children's lives back to normal.

Brown and Jeffries BBC News.