SCHOOLS across Welwyn Hatfield and Potters Bar will be closed due to NUT and ATL strike action today (Thursday).

Teachers across the country are staging the walkout - the first national teachers’ strike for 25 years - over the Government’s proposed reform of pensions.

Schools affected by the stoppage are:

? Monk’s Walk

? Colney Heath

? Watton-at-Stone

? The Ryde

? Brookmans Park Primary

? Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ (except 20 doing a PE exam)

? Ludwick Nursery

? Goffs Oak Primary

? Cranborne Primary

? Swallow Dell

? Sir Frederic Osborn

? Stanborough