04/05/2017 Newsround

Good morning and welcome to Newsround.

We're taking a closer look at these things - fidget spinners!

Have they been banned from your school?

Well I've been looking into the toy that everyone's talking about.

Fidget spinners are taking over playgrounds.

The small toys have become the latest must have gadget.

My spinner is a glow-in-the-dark one.

You get relaxed when it spins and it's really satisfying.

You can have challenges with other people

and you can trade and you can customise them as well.

These fidget spinners have got a rather

They were originally designed to help children

with certain conditions like autism deal with stress.

But these little things are causing big

Sometimes children, they get distracted but...

And they don't concentrate on their work, they try

and rush it so they can play with it and they don't produce much quality

They've since been banned in a number of schools but here in

Manchester, teachers are a bit more relaxed.

They're happy for kids to play with them but only

You can play with them at lunchtime and play

time but are not allowed to play with them during class.

We have them banned in class and around the school

environment and you are only

allowed them at break time and lunch.

We are really happy to have kids enjoying

the fidget spinners on

the playground, we're seeing them get a lot of fun,

motor skills but we have asked that they put them away as soon

as they enter the building so they're not a

distraction in the lessons because we found children were more

interested in watching each other doing

tricks than watching the

But spinners only cost a couple of pounds but some websites

have started to charge a lot more as the popularity increases.

Online videos showing off tricks have had millions

of views - until the next big thing in playground,

it looks like that the fidget spinner will be around until at

Go online to tell us if they've been banned at your school -

Also today - some of you may have noticed your schools have been

But it's NOT for the general election we've been talking about.

Adults in Scotland, Wales and parts of England

are voting for the politicians who look after local

There are also elections for some new mayors.

The UK-wide vote that'll decide on the government and prime minister

There's more on the general election and how it works

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has his eyes

United take on Spanish side Feltavigo, away,

tonight in the first of their two semi-final matches.

There's good news for them - Paul Pogba's back from injury.

The Europa League winners qualify for the Champions League so it's

I think it is a big achievement, many problems we have and it will

allow us to be back to Champions League next season so we have to

try, that's what we are going to do. This is a new space fabric

that's been designed by engineers at the US

space agency, NASA. It could help astronauts

in the future. This is a special metallic fabric

that NASA has designed to use Acting as a way to

control temperatures. From space these birds look

like dots and can be counted - otherwise it's hard to know how many

there are as they only nest on tiny It's the first time any species

on Earth has been counted That's it for now -

I'm back in half an hour with more