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Sex education is to be made compulsory in all state schools in England but faith schools will also be free to preach against sex outside marriage and homosexuality, under government proposals. The plans to make personal, social and health education (PSHE) compulsory from the age of five, published yesterday, include a clause allowing schools to apply their "values" to the lessons and another allowing parents to opt their children out on religious grounds. The government-commissioned review by Sir Alasdair Macdonald, headteacher of Morpeth school in east London, on how to make PSHE compulsory, concludes that schools will be legally obliged to teach pupils about health and nutrition, safety, drugs and alcohol and sex education.
Sex education faith state schools (Guardian)
Sex education in schools (Guardian)
Pupils aged 11 to learn about gay sex (Times)
Schools must teach pupils about babies, Aids and sex (Independent)
Compulsory lifestyle classes (Daily Telegraph)

Guardian
Headteachers advised to refresh themselves with the recommended procedures but to 'continue as normal' as the threat of a flu pandemic rises.
Swine flu schools guidelines (Guardian)

THES
An article discussing the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO)'s Middle Years Programme (MYP) in the THES written by Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, and David James, the school's director of IB. The issue of alternatives to the GCSE was also discussed at length in the TES magazine.
It can never be too early to ask students to start taking intellectual risks (THES not online)

Darts help with maths
A teacher from a Nottingham school has being using darts to help pupils with their sums.
Darts helps pupils learn maths (BBC News Online)