A big thank you to all those who wrote to their MP requesting delay to allow time for proper preparation Apparently, the adage that every cloud has a silver lining may be true. In the Department for Education’s latest Guidance, issued in February and aimed at minimising transmission of the coronavirus Covid-19 in schools post-lockdown, they…
Important Message from SPUC Safe at School The new compulsory subjects of Relationships Education in primary schools and Relationships & Sex Education (RSE) in secondary schools, officially came into force in ALL schools in England in September 2020. The new regulations state that parents must be consulted before the governing body of a school makes its RSE policy. However, due…
CCFE-Christian Coalition for Education-is chaired by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, one time Bishop of Rochester (Church of England). It is a group that draws from all parts of the Christian Church and many of whose members have many years’ experience as well as current responsibilities in education, many at a senior level. The letter below was…
VfJUK has it on good authority that, despite the chaos and challenge facing schools as they struggle to get children back into education and make up for time lost due to the pandemic, the DfE is nevertheless insisting as a priority on full implementation of the controversial and divisive RSE Regulations from the summer term,…
Last week was Children’s Mental Health Week. Schools across the country were involved in lots of exciting ways. At our small independent primary school, we used a great new resource with our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classes. Our school had been operating remotely because of lockdown so we were limited in what…
New RSE Regulations, passed in 2019, were due to come into force in schools from September 2020, though their implementation has been held over till the summer term of this year due to the pandemic. They cover a range of issues to do with behaviour, relationships, sexuality, sexual orientation and gender, raising profound moral issues that have divided humankind throughout history. Michael Petek, in this…
In 2015 I spent a week in Romania talking to pro-family groups in five different towns and cities urging them to resist moves by the Romanian Government to introduce graphic sex education into their schools. I spoke about the sex education programmes in British schools and cautioned them not to be taken in by such…
The sex lessons pupils are forced to attend YOU may not have noticed it, but there is a quiet revolution under way in Wales. The innocuous-sounding Curriculum and Assessment Bill, which is slowly making its way through the Welsh Assembly, seeks to scrap all existing protections in relation to sex education and force every pupil…
Aristotle, echoed by St Ignatius Loyala, famously said, ‘Give me a child till he’s seven, and I will show you the man’. Adolf Hitler, in inimitable and terrifying fashion, developed this maxim, stating baldly, He alone who owns the youth, gains the future, thereby demonstrating not just the importance of early education, but providing an…
Eton college, alma mater of 20 British Prime Ministers and on whose playing fields, according to the Duke of Wellington, the battle of Waterloo was won, has been much in the news over the last couple of weeks. But on this occasion for a rather less vainglorious achievement. English master Will Knowland has recently been sacked for…
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