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Business leaders raise concern over science curriculum
Business leaders claim the “sheer scale of prescription” in the new science curriculum will leave pupils in England little time for practical experiments, the absence of which they believe will stop...
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Compulsory cycling lessons in schools ‘would make for fitter, happier, safer...
Cycling should be placed on the National Curriculum to combat the obesity crisis and improve levels of road safety, according to a powerful coalition of transport and health experts. This is from the...
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New D&T curriculum axed over ‘dumbing down’ fears
A key chapter of the Coalition’s new national curriculum is to be rewritten because of concerns raised by inventor Sir James Dyson that it placed too much focus on flower arranging, cooking, sewing...
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School pupils should be taught ‘not all porn is bad’, advise experts
Teachers should be aware that “not all pornography is bad” when taking sex education classes, according to guidance being made available to schools. This is from the Telegraph… A publication released...
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Secret Teacher: Introducing Michael Gove’s guide to consistent inconsistency
This week’s secret teacher says the education secretary’s messages are often at odds with the guidelines and standards that teachers must work by. This is from the Guardian… If there’s one thing...
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PR smokescreen cannot hide the holes in climate teaching proposals
Bob Ward, policy and communications director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, has an article in the Guardian criticising the proposals for the role of climate change in the new...
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Anthony Seldon: Michael Gove is winning the hearts of sceptical state heads
The Telegraph has a fascinating article from Anthony Seldon who, along with 150 state school heads, attended a speech by Michael Gove last week in which the education secretary suggested, amongst...
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Energy secretary urges Michael Gove to reinstate climate change on curriculum
Ed Davey, the energy secretary, has written a private letter to Michael Gove, the education secretary, urging him to rethink his plans to downgrade climate change in the new national curriculum. This...
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‘Illiterate’ letter wins anti-Gove professors an award for bad grammar
A “simply illiterate” letter penned by 100 academics attacking Michael Gove’s planned changes to the primary school curriculum has been named the inaugural winner of the Idler Academy’s Bad Grammar...
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Petition launched to make sewing compulsory in schools
The Times reports that an online petition has been launched to encourage the Government to reintroduce sewing as a compulsory subject in schools. This is from the Times… Once we would make do and mend....
View ArticleViewpoint: Why I am excited by the new national curriculum proposals and how...
Schools Improvement reader, retired HR manager and school governor Derek Brooks began freelance history tutoring for schools about 8 years ago with Lancashire County Council’s award winning ‘Learning...
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Queen’s Speech: Changes to exams, curriculum and teachers’ pay highlighted
Wide-ranging changes to the exam system, the national curriculum and teachers’ pay in England have been confirmed in the Queen’s Speech. This is from the BBC… Some exam changes, such as the end of...
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Tracey Emin warns cutting art from school curriculum will cause riots
Removing arts subjects from the school curriculum will lead to future riots, Tracey Emin has said, as she warns “everything will go to pieces”. This is from the Telegraph… Emin, the artist and...
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Secret Teacher: I’d rather leave the job I love than teach Gove’s propaganda
Draft curriculum changes are forcing this week’s Secret Teacher, who works in a school in the south of England to consider their teaching future. This is an extract from the Guardian… Now, some 17...
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Helen Mirren: Children should be taught gardening at school
Dame Helen Mirren says gardening should be taught to pupils at schools. Speakeing at the Chelsea Flower Show, she said “They should teach it in schools. It’s such a positive thing to do and very...
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Money habits are ‘formed by age seven’
Most children’s financial habits are formed by the age of seven, it was claimed today by the government-backed Money Advice Service (MAS), as it urged parents not to “underestimate the effect their...
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Secret Teacher: our students deserve more than levels and data
No amount of data or spreadsheets can alter the fact that all students progress at different rates, says this week’s Secret Teacher in the Guardian. He believes National Curriculum levels are crude and...
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Too much, too young? Why Gove’s reforms ‘spell danger’
When 100 leading academics wrote a letter to the Daily Telegraph in March expressing concerns about national curriculum reforms, Michael Gove hit back by accusing them of “bad academia”. Michael...
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Simon Schama: Don’t sign up to Gove’s insulting curriculum
Simon Schama, the historian who advised the Government on the new national curriculum, has issued a stinging criticism of the final syllabus, urging teachers to reject them. This is from the...
View ArticleToby Young: inspired by a New York elementary school
Toby Young has been in New York visiting Core Knowledge schools that use the ideas of educationalist E.D. Hirsch and which have been adapted by Civitas for use in English primary schools such as the...
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