21 h. ago The posh London area that is officially the best place in England for state schools

The posh London area that is officially the best place in England for state schools  Time Out Worldwide

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3 d. ago Home Office 'secretly funded boyband to tour Muslim communities singing anti

The British-American pop trio, known as 'Mr Meanor', visited schools across the north of England in 2016.

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4 d. ago School bans singing KPop songs from Netflix hit Demon Hunters over fears it is not in keeping with 'Christian ethos'

In a message to parents, Liliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, said some pupils had found the themes raised in the movie 'challenging'.

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1 week ago Girl, 17, joins lawsuit against UK government after seeing horrific phone videos at school

Flossie McShea from Devon says she saw a shooting, a beheading and porn and that other students ‘show you their screen without invitation’A 17-year-old girl who says she was exposed to horrific images and videos including porn, a shooting and a beheading on a smartphones during the school day has joined a legal action against the education secretary.Flossie McShea, from Devon, says she also received threatening messages while at school, as she put her name to a judicial review in an attempt to get smartphones banned in schools in England. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Girl, 17, joins lawsuit against government after seeing horrific phone videos at school

Flossie McShea from Devon says she saw a shooting, a beheading and porn and that other students ‘show you their screen without invitation’A 17-year-old girl who says she was exposed to horrific images and videos including porn, a shooting and a beheading on a smartphones during the school day has joined a legal action against the education secretary.Flossie McShea, from Devon, says she also received threatening messages while at school, as she put her name to a judicial review in an attempt to get smartphones banned in schools in England. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Teenager joins legal action to get phones banned in schools across England

The 17-year-old says she feels the Department for Education has failed to protect her and her peers

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2 w. ago My verdict on the 'woke' review of England's school curriculum? It isn't radical enough | Simon Jenkins

When I heard it was dumbing down education, my heart sank. In fact, it’s outspoken about the chaos of Michael Gove’s reforms and the changes neededSchooling in Britain today is where medicine was in the days of bleeding and leeches. It is trapped in the past, between teachers wedded to their subjects and politicians obsessed with tests. Doctors generally know if they have cured you, lawyers know if you are found not guilty. Educators have only exams to measure their professional success. The result is that English schools cower beneath an examination mountain – a global outlier in terms of the volume of assessment.This week’s report on reforming the curriculum in England was greeted by conservative critics with cries of wokery, dumbing down and falling standards. My heart sank, until I read its 200 pages. As a former education correspondent, I can only say I found it uplifting. There was the odd reference to diversity but it was hardly “woke”. What shocked me was its outspoken comme...

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2 w. ago Paul Gascoigne rushed to the aid of Celebrity Traitors star after he was beaten up

Paul Gascoigne and David Olusoga went to the same school in Gateshead and the former England international was the TV historian's unlikely hero during a tense moment

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2 w. ago London classrooms empty twice as fast as the rest of England as school places drop

London classrooms empty twice as fast as the rest of England as school places drop  London Evening Standard

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2 w. ago London classrooms empty twice as fast as the rest of England as school places collapse

The number of children in London primary schools plummeted by 34,000 in one year, according to think tank research

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2 w. ago England has enough empty school places to fill 23,000 classrooms following birth rate drop

The Institute for Government (IFG) said a drop in the birth rate has left 611,300 primary school places were unfilled in the 2023-24 academic school year.

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2 w. ago Pupils from affluent homes ‘more likely to get places at top secondary schools’

Schools’ geographic admissions criteria are ‘effectively ruling out certain pupils’ a study’s lead author has said.

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2 w. ago Ed Sheeran takes partial credit for move to overhaul music teaching in England

Singer-songwriter says curriculum changes reflect points raised in open letter to PM organised by his foundationEd Sheeran has taken partial credit for the government’s move to overhaul the teaching of music in England’s state schools shortly after being mentioned by the education secretary in parliament.The Department for Education (DfE) said it wanted to broaden the appeal of music education “to give every child a strong start in the subject” and boost the creative subjects taken at GCSE as part of its wider changes to England’s national curriculum. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago All schoolchildren in England to be taught financial literacy

Major changes to curriculum also include teaching about fake news and climate change

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2 w. ago One in 10 children in first year of primary school in England is obese

Overall, 1.1m children were measured at state-maintained schools as part of data collection.

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4 w. ago A rift that took 500 years to repair: King Charles prays with the pope

Joint prayer in Sistine Chapel is symbolic act of rapprochement between Catholic church and Church of England after centuries of divisionAlmost every British schoolchild is taught that Henry VIII, the swaggering Tudor king driven by lust and his quest for an heir, broke away from the Roman Catholic church in 1534 after the pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.Henry created the Church of England, appointed himself its supreme governor, divorced Catherine and married Anne Boleyn (who lasted just three years before she was beheaded for treason). Continue reading...

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