| Teaching News and Events (14/12/13) Posted: 14 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: - Nearly 250,000 students are educated in “totally inadequate” schools, according to Ofsted chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw. The Guardian have produced this list of 10 things that teachers need to know about Ofsted’s annual report.
- National curriculum tests for 14-year-olds in England’s school should be reintroduced, says the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw.
- The number of pupils in state schools is set to grow by a million over the next decade to reach its highest level in more than 40 years, according to official estimates.
- The government’s flagship free school programme will cost at least three times the sum originally allocated, the public spending watchdog has found.
- Schools are being forced to "sideline" key subjects such as art, music and physical education in the race to hit government targets, teachers' leaders have warned.
- A huge amount of time is spent in preparing pupils to pass tests, particularly at KS2, time that could be better spent in educating the children, says headmaster Peter Tait.
- Boys are much more likely than girls to be influenced by where they stand in ability in school, research suggests.
- The Family Language project, which enters primary children – and their parents – for GCSEs and has boosted their English, is at risk because of cuts.
- Primary pupils in inner city Newcastle have taken over a corner shop, selling goods they have designed, made and marketed themselves.
- The average UK teenager owns six digital devices and posts pictures and information online, a survey says.
- The number of obese and overweight children in the final year of primary school in England has fallen for the first time in six years.
- Lack of a proper national policy to get UK children to do more exercise amounts to mass “child neglect”, the British Journal of Sports Medicine says.
- Ministers should be forced to invest in new playing fields when building major road, rail and housing projects, a charity has suggested.
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