The National Curriculum changes are broadly positive
Safe at School, a campaign of SPUC, has "broadly welcomed" the programme of study for science at Key Stages 1 and 2, in the new National Curriculum published today.
Safe at School is pleased to see that at Key Stage 1, the new curriculum does not stipulate that children are required to identify the human sexual organs - just as in the current curriculum. The new curriculum contains non-statutory "Notes and guidance" with a suggested list of main body parts. No sexual organs are on the list. [SPUC, 8 July]
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- Ireland's proposed abortion bill will advance abortion as a human right says Dana [Pat Buckley, 9 July]
- Bishops's briefing note on Irish abortion bill [Pat Buckley, 9 July]
- Senior Vatican prelate tells Cork Mass of 'culture of death' [Irish Times, 8 July]
- Mexico City priests learn to expose the horror of abortion [LifeNews.com, 7 July]
- New era of cheap IVF will result in the deaths of millions of more embryonic human beings [Protect the Pope, 9 July]
- Woman opened her eyes as doctors who thought she was brain dead began to take out her organs for donation [Mail, 9 July]
- Germany memorial for Nazi euthanasia victims [BBC, 8 July]
- California prisons caught sterilising female inmates without approval [ABC, 8 July]