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Teaching News and Events (16/6/12) Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: The draft Primary National Curriculum Programmes of Study for English, maths and science have been published and they ‘are more demanding than the existing National Curriculum’. However, half of the government's panel of expert national curriculum advisers were so concerned that the proposed changes announced this week would be too prescriptive and lacked trust in teachers that they tendered their resignations. Children who struggle in the three-Rs at a young age will be clearly marked out as part of a major overhaul of the primary school curriculum. Newly qualified teachers are leaving the profession after being left unsupported when they start work. Schools will soon get more of a say in how teachers are trained, including taking on new trainee teachers themselves. Hundreds of thousands of poor children are growing up with little hope of a good education or career after being raised by families that fail to set proper boundaries or fully understand the difference between right and wrong, Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned. Heads are calling on Ofsted to explain figures that appear to show that the watchdog eased up on schools as the first three months of its tough new inspection regime progressed. One in ten Scottish schools visited by inspectors over the past four years failed its inspection, according to Scottish government figures. A maths A-level exam paper due to be taken has been scrapped because of fears of a security breach. School leaders have apologised to parents after children were asked sit in the canteen until they had finished the food on their plates. About 3.7 million school days were missed last autumn by pupils playing truant according to official figures. Access to smartphones and computers is "infantilising" children's education by bombarding them with facts, according to a school leader. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, re-constructed near the original site by the Thames, is running a drama project for children as young as three. Next week's Teaching Events include: 20th May to 20th June - National Smile Month 16th June – Festival of Voices 16th to 24th June - Bike Week 17th June - Father’s Day 18th to 22nd June - National School Grounds Week 18th to 24th June - Child Safety Week 24th June - Midsummer’s Day

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