An abandoned satchel hangs outside one of the many empty classrooms in an Evangelical Church school in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, where some 185 people were killed in a series of explosions last week.
Hundreds of parents have chosen not to bring in their children.
The leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which says it carried out the attacks, has issued a chilling threat that primary and secondary schools may be targeted next - in revenge, he said, for killings at conservative Islamic schools in the north.
Brightly dressed head teacher Bosede Yusuf is determined never to leave town.
She has already received many invitations to join friends in the UK and in mainly Christian parts of southern Nigeria.
"As the head, if I decide to leave, everyone else will leave. That's why I'm still staying around," she said.
She added: "I believe it is only when God directs me to move that I'll move." Keep reading.
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