How to teach … yoga
Back bends, side bends and pretzel twists – here’s how to stretch students’ minds and bodies through yoga
Plans for sexual consent lessons in schools ‘do not go far enough’
Ministers back introduction of lessons teaching children importance of consent but expert body says they must be made compulsory in order to achieve results
Sex education should be mandatory in all schools, MPs demand
Ministers scolded for lack of addressing inadequate teaching despite huge demand from teachers, parents and students
Tough new food GCSE to test pupils on poached eggs, palmiers and provenance
Examination will test pupils on culinary techniques as well as knowledge of nutrition, food traditions and kitchen safety
Baroness Campbell: young people’s physical inactivity ‘bleak and worrying’
Baroness Sue Campbell, the chair of the Youth Sport Trust, says physical education and sport in schools must be prioritised if Britain is to fight back against child obesity
School pupils and hospital patients at risk of killer pollution, say MPs
Committee says it is unacceptable a whole generation could have health seriously impaired by air pollution above EU limits
‘Today we’re talking masturbation’: sitting in on a sex education class
As bill to make sex education a statutory requirement gets its second reading in the Commons, Sally Weale attends a lesson
Major study of teenage sleep patterns aims to assess impact on learning
Pupils to start lessons at 10am in effort to see how neuroscience might improve school performance and exam results
The real victims of Tom Corbett’s move to screw over teachers will be the children of Philadelphia
Valerie Braman: Bashing teachers is an integral part of the political playbook of America’s most vulnerable governor and his Republican party
Inclusive sex education is vital – and British schools aren’t delivering it
Peter Tatchell: Why isn’t there a mandatory requirement to teach children about sexual health and diversity, including LGBT, in the same way as other curriculum subjects?