Dr Keith Gilberts, headteacher of Saxthrupton High School in Norfolk, has defended a new range of ‘A’ Level subjects offered to students, which he claims are ‘just as demanding as traditional tough subjects like maths, physics, and media studies’.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2011
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Instead of learning French and German, children will instead be taught to speak slowly and loudly, as if the listener were a particularly stupid person who is also a little hard of hearing.
Posted: Oct 4th, 2010
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The Minister of Education, Ed Balls, has announced today that from September 2009, the teaching of hindsight will become a compulsory addition to the national curriculum at Key Stage 3 and above.
‘Clearly, the benefits of hindsight have long been recognised, but schools have provided little or no formal teaching of the subject to date. It is to remedy this deficit that we are moving straight to an expectation that a minimum of an hour per week’s hindsight will be taught to all children aged 11 plus’ from the beginning of the next academic year.’
Religious education focused too narrowly around ‘the Force’.
The National Curriculum will include lessons in the Bleedin’ Obvious.
Posted: Jun 9th, 2007
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