Children as young as five should be taught about sex, the Government’s controversial health watchdog said last night. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence…

Matthew Moore Telegraph
A secondary school has banned girls from wearing skirts, regardless of length, to prevent them from attracting unwanted attention. 2010The head teacher of St Aidan’s Church of England High School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire imposed a complete ban on skirts because young girls were “placing themselves at risk” by raising their hemlines. From the start of the September term, all female pupils up to the age of 15 will have to wear long black trousers. In a letter to parents at the mixed-sex school, Dennis Richards said that …

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ship Governors have to remember, especially parent governors they represent parents not themselves and have no right to vote down academy status unless they have balloted parents. Also governors are there to support the head teacher not tell them what to do surely if the school management want to go for academy status then so be it they are the professionals. At the risk of upsetting many governors and I have been governors of every kind of school, including nursery and Tertiary College since 1975 and a governor …

Sarah Harris Mail
Thousands of ‘outstanding’ schools will never have to face an Ofsted inspection again, it has been revealed. Education Secretary Michael Gove says all schools with the top judgement from the education watchdog will be exempt from check-ups.The shake-up means that the top primary and secondary schools that are fast-tracked to become academies will be immediately cut loose from local authority control as well as Ofsted visits. Parent groups are likely to fear there could be a lack of accountability, with outstanding schools left to coast or deteriorate. …

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By Graeme Paton, Education Editor
06 May 2010
As many as half of schools in some areas will fail to administer tests for 10 and 11-year-olds amid claims they ruin children’s education and threaten teachers’ jobs. Up to 8,500 of the country’s 17,000 state primaries could take part in the boycott next week, although Labour has claimed the numbers will be much lower.
The industrial action – staged by the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Head Teachers – is set to cause widespread disruption. It is believed that the …

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Kirsty Walker and Sarah Harris Mail
Schools secretary Ed Balls was forced to drop his plans to start sex lessons as young as five
Ed Balls yesterday dropped controversial plans to make sex education compulsory for children as young as five.
The Schools Secretary abandoned another ten flagship policies from the Children, Schools and Families Bill under pressure from the Tories in the final days of Parliament.
Parenting and religious campaigners had strongly opposed the plans to introduce sex into the curriculum in ‘personal, social and health education’ classes for pupils aged five …

By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Saturday morning classes for children from disadvantaged homes will be set up if the Conservatives win the general election. Michael Gove, the shadow Education Secretary, said he wanted schools to open for longer during the week and on Saturday mornings to help close the achievement gap between poorer pupils and those who are better off. Speaking at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) annual conference in Manchester yesterday, Mr Gove said the extra classes would help provide a similar cultural experience to …