News archive for 8th May 2021

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School reports its chaplain to anti-terror unit for telling pupils they're allowed to disagree with LGBT teaching - Mail How creative of the Tories to invent a culture war to disguise arts cuts | Barbara Ellen - Guardian The fault line in our society - SecEd Why pupil voice should be central to our teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘This isn’t how my gap year was meant to be’: how Covid turned young people’s lives upside down - Guardian What if classroom displays are just a waste of time? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Period poverty scheme shows power of IB CAS projects - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE chatter: Sign language, bird watching and research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head teachers demand exam boards hand back £220m fees to schools because teachers are doing most of the grading work - Mail 3 reasons why children benefit from EYFS - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE keeps edtech demonstrator conflicts ‘action plan’ close to its chest - Schools Week Headteachers in England call for refund of £220m summer exam fees - Guardian Indian Covid variant: Keep masks in schools, warn teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher is first woman of colour elected as an MSP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open conversations about sexual harassment can tackle victim blaming - FE Week Students want music lessons, so why are they vanishing? - Times Educational Supplement | TES PFI endgame: DfE steps in to ensure school handovers go to plan - Schools Week Refer pupils to new mental health teams, teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES