Sentences with phrase «grammar school head teachers»

Grammar school head teachers have also been complaining about funding shortages - and have warned that they might have to start asking parents for payments.

Grammar school head teachers have gone a step further and warned that parents might to have to pay to make up the shortfall.

A Devon grammar school head teacher says he would like to make allowances for children from poorer backgrounds.

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The remaining members were: Mandy Nayton CEO of the Dyslexia SPELD Foundation; Professor Pamela Snow, Head of the La Trobe Rural Health School; Steven Capp, principal of Bentleigh West Primary School; Professor Geoff Prince, Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute; and Allason McNamara, a mathematics teacher at Trinity Grammar, Victoria, and President of the Australia Association of Mathematics Teachers.

A committee set up to tackle social mobility in Kent grammar schools will hear from seven head teachers amid councillors» fears that more should be done.

A committee set up to tackle social mobility in Kent grammar schools will hear from head teachers amid fears that more should be done.

82 per cent of teachers, school leaders and heads oppose opening new grammar schools, according to the results of a new poll.

She said: «Teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state schools in the UK which are facing real - terms cuts in funding for their pupils will be dismayed to see the Chancellor throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools.

This message is reiterated by Tim Hoyle, head teacher at Huddersfield Grammar School.

Simon Gipson is the Head of St Michael's Grammar School, Melbourne, and an occasional contributor to Teacher.

Barry Sindall, chairman of the Grammar School Heads Association, made a similar assertion that one way to tackle the growing shortage of markers would be for head teachers to encourage their staff to become markers.

The Ofsted official has argued grammars» higher rating may be due to «more effective teaching», while Mr Widdows, deputy head teacher at Giles Acadamy in Lincolnshire, said the claim was an «insult» to teachers in other schools.

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Referencing his own experience as a head teacher at a successful comprehensive, the Ofsted Chief he wouldn't have had the same success if there had been a nearby grammar: «If you have grammar schools, you take away the most able children from the all - ability comprehensive set - up.

Grammar schools in England may ask parents for hundreds of pounds a year to cope with funding cuts, their head teachers» association has warned.

«It is impossible to have grammar schools without secondary modern schools or their equivalent,» says the joint letter from head teachers.

I began as a geography teacher and progressed to be the head of department in a large secondary grammar school in Aylesbury.

Matthew Tate, the head teacher of Trinity School, said: «We believe that the site is big enough to share with the grammar school and that would be the best way forward for the children of Sevenoaks.&School, said: «We believe that the site is big enough to share with the grammar school and that would be the best way forward for the children of Sevenoaks.&school and that would be the best way forward for the children of Sevenoaks.»

Mr White said head teachers wanted the government to focus on the practical necessities before being «distracted» by policies such as expanding grammar schools.

But in counties such as Gloucestershire grammar schools have simply expanded on their existing sites, to the consternation of other secondary head teachers who face losing pupils and money.

Head teachers are giving evidence to a committee set up to tackle social mobility in Kent grammar schools as councillors admit more should be done.

Secondary head teachers in North Somerset have written to Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her to reconsider proposals for new grammar schools.

Jules White, a head teacher in West Sussex and part of a campaign against funding shortages, said parents who are facing cuts in their children's schools should be made aware that «money is no object» for free schools and grammar schools.

Head teachers warning that they face financial meltdown are «furious» that the government has been pledging funds to create grammar schools in England.

Mr King, head teacher of Leicester Grammar School, says marking remains a «cottage industry» that is unable to cope with the scale and stresses of the modern exam system.

The report has sparked a call from the National Association of Head Teachers for the government to scrap its plan for new grammar schools and invest in early years.