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Category Archives: Girls
Girls and sport: Schools urged to make PE more attractive to girls
Schools are being urged to introduce more female-friendly fitness activities such as Zumba classes and rollerblading because so many girls are opting out of exercise. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Boys ‘close reading gap with girls’
Boys have caught up with girls on reading ability, according to a study into the book-reading habits of school children. What Kids are Reading 2012 found that the difficulty level of books read by boys is no longer generally lower than … Continue reading
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British children are culture starved, study says
Millions of British children are “culture starved” as they have never been to an art gallery, theatre or museum, a study has claimed. The research, commissioned by Visit Birmingham, found four in 10 children had never been to an art … Continue reading
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Prince of Wales: pupils need to go play outside to develop character
Schools should provide more team games, outdoor activities and practical workshops to help pupils develop “character”, the Prince of Wales said yesterday. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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The risk factors affecting educational development
A quarter of today’s UK children are living in families which pose more than one risk to their educational development, a study says. Institute of Education researchers analysed 10 risk factors affecting more than 18,000 families. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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‘Failure week’ at top girls’ school to build resilience
A top girls’ school is planning a “failure week” to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes. The emphasis will be on the value of having a go, rather than playing it safe and perhaps … Continue reading
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Parents ‘struggling to understand right from wrong’
Dr Helen Wright, president of the Girls’ Schools Association, suggests there is something “intensely wrong” with society if some mothers and fathers can see no problem with allowing daughters to wear provocative clothing. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Children’s Society warns over young runaways
Only a small proportion of the tens of thousands of children who run away each year are reported to police as missing, a report suggests. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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How to teach … Anti-Bullying Week
It’s Anti-Bullying Week, and this year the 130-plus organisations that comprise the Alliance Against Bullying (ABA) are challenging the old “sticks and stones” adage and putting name-calling and all forms of belittling or insulting language in the spotlight. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
Never mind Las Vegas, there is “Fear and Loathing” in the classroom
The grim picture of the modern classroom is revealed in a series of statistics issued by the Schools Health Education Unit. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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“Teenspeak” reinvents the language
Ex-gang members were used as script advisers on a new British film about girl gangs so that the language would be authentic. How hard is it to write in the way that young people speak to each other? {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Should we sound the bell on single-sex schools?
Many parents still believe that boys and girls learn better when segregated. Yet the latest evidence suggests nothing of the kind. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Back-to-school bugs
Children can catch a basket full of gruesome-sounding illnesses off fellow pupils. But, don’t worry, few are as bad as you might think. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Hartlepool’s new £53m college opens its doors to students
HARTLEPOOL’S new £53m College of Further Education has opened its doors to students for the first time. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Dreading the new school term starting? Have a look at our top tips for planning lessons.
At the moment, the biggest worry for teachers will be planning lessons and preparing for the next academic year at school. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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University clearing places are filling faster than last year
FIGURES from the admissions body at UCAS shows this week that almost more than a third of the UK university places has been filled through clearing compared to last year. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
Girls widen their lead as GCSE results are published
After GCSE results were published this morning it was found that girls are widening their lead on boys considerably this year. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
More women than men in higher education in Scotland
The number of young women in higher education in Scotland remains higher than the number of young men, according to figures reported by BBC News. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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A look inside Sweden’s ‘gender-neutral’ pre-school
Some have called it “gender madness”, but the Egalia pre-school in Stockholm says its goal is to free children from social expectations based on their sex, reports the BBC’s Cordelia Hebblethwaite. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Boys more likely to struggle in co-ed schools
A leading headmaster says that a generation of boys has been let down by the decline of single-sex classrooms, reports Graeme Paton of The Telegraph. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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