Part 1 In late June 2021, my wife and I were banned by the Chair of Governors from entering the premises of our daughter’s primary school. The ban followed an investigation by myself into what appeared to be some fairly under-hand methods used by the school to get the RSHE curriculum passed by the Board…
If you stopped someone in the street today and asked them, “What’s the first goal of education”, what do you think they would say? It will be a surprise to many to learn the ‘official’ answer, according to the English National Curriculum and the Education Act 2002, is the ‘spiritual…development of pupils…and of society’. Yes,…
School’s Guide to Respecting Religious Beliefs in Relationships and Sex Education The following is taken from a resource reproduced with permission from Christian Concern, which will prove useful to both schools and parents alike in clarifying the rights parents have with regards to the RSHE taught at their children’s school. This guide may also be…
By Will Jones The Government on Wednesday published the evidence informing its recent controversial decision to recommend all secondary school pupils wear face masks in classrooms. The new document from the Department for Education (DfE) explains that the decision “has been taken on the recommendation of UKHSA and is based on a range of…
Parents must keep on fighting on the solid rock of faith In my previous two articles which have appeared in Calx Mariae (in no 4 and no 10), I detailed the way in which Church leaders in England and Wales had in recent years consistently betrayed Catholic parents and their children and, indeed, all the…
Teaching materials for Years 1 – 8 Concern about Relationships and Sex Education could have brought you to this website, so to read that the subject can actually benefit you as a parent or teacher may come as a surprise. That, however, is what we believe at Alive to the World. Core principles of Alive…
Last week, in a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal overturned the controversial 2020 ruling in the Keira Bell case, which had found that gender dysphoric children under 16 were unlikely to be mature enough to be able to give informed consent to receiving puberty blocking drugs. Their Lordships disagreed, ruling that the court lacked competence…
What a surprise! In the two years preceding lockdown ⎼ at which point children along with the rest of the population were confined to barracks ⎼ child-on-child sex abuse cases reportedly doubled, with 10% of cases carried out by children aged 10 or under. To be precise, from 2016 to 2017, the number of cases reported to the…
A new group, Positive Reform for a Trusted Ofsted, is calling for a strategic review into the policies, practices, and processes of Ofsted, in order to increase transparency and give schools greater discretion to teach in accordance with legal requirements. They are planning to send the open letter below – supported by signatures from concerned…
A glimmer of light begins to shine at the end of a long dark tunnel. In a welcome and long overdue move, the media watchdog Ofcom has become the latest organisation to withdraw from Stonewall’s Diversity Champions’ programme, citing as a reason the need to avoid conflict or a risk of perceived bias. In a statement, while…
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