Hundreds of protesters are marching through Oxford city centre supporting the teachers' and civil servants' pay strike.
Fifty-eight schools have been closed or affected by today's strike and at least 300 people are currently marching from Oxford Town Hall.
Thousands of other teachers are carrying out similar marches across the country.
It is believed about 600 of the county's 2,750 members of the National Union of Teachers are on strike today.
Church Cowley St James teacher Eleanor Watts said: "I am not happy about striking. I don't like leaving my job and letting my pupils down but I am doing it for the children because they deserve motivated teachers."
The teachers have been joined by lecturers striking from Oxford and Cherwell Valley College and members of the Public and Civil Servants Union.
Roy Bentley, branch chairman for the University and Colleges Union at the college, said he believed virtually all 150 members were on strike.
He said: "Pay has been falling behind because of inflation and we are paid even worse than school teachers."
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