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Teachers risk piling the pressure on their pupils by simply asking them how they are feeling about their exams, the head of the school inspections body Ofsted has said.Ofsteds chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, said merely speaking about tests could sub
stanley cup liminally cause a child anxiety. As thousands of youngsters across England and Wales began their Sats and GCSEs this week, Spielman said: Good primary schools manage to run key stage tests often with children not ev
stanley quencher en knowing that theyre being tested. Seven-year-olds [think] oh we did a maths booklet today, great. I was in a primary school not long ago where I saw something that did concern me, where the head was going around clapping the year 6 pupils on the shoulder saying, So are you feeling OK about the test, is everything going well for you And I thought actually maybe that is well-meaning, but maybe thats actually subliminally encouraging children to feel anxious. View image in fullscreenAmanda Spielman:
stanley cup spain Good primary schools run tests often with children not knowing theyre being tested. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The GuardianThere is rising concern that a teach-to-the-test system is having a negative effect on the mental health of children. Asked whether positive encouragement from headteachers could affect the wellbeing of children, Spielman said everyone needed to think about their behaviour. The mere act of talking about something 鈥?somebody other than a classroom teacher talking about it 鈥?might just help to ratche Durx The stress secret: 12 ways to meditate 鈥?without actually meditating
The Council of Europe has issued an unprecedented warning to the British government to take urgent steps to enable prisoners to vote in the forthcoming general election or face thousands more compensation claims.The committee of ministers issued the warning six years after a former prisoner, John Hirst, won a landmark case in the European court of human rights in which Britain s blanket ban on prisoners voting was declared illegal.The ministers expressed serious concern in December that the failure to give prisoners the vote meant there was a significant risk the election would fail to comply with the European convention on human rights .Now Strasbourg has issued an even firmer warning, strongly urging British authorities to rapidly adopt measures, of even an interim nature, to ensure the execution of the c
stanley cup ourt s judgment before the forthcoming general election .The ministers also warned that failure to act could lead to thousands more compensation claims from sentenced inmates denied the right to vote. In diplomatic language, the Council of Europe said the increasing number of persons potentially affected by the restriction could result in similar violations affecting a significant category of persons, giving rise to a su
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