Sentences with phrase «additional needs of pupils»

The third most quoted source of financial pressure reported by school leaders was the cost of dealing with the additional needs of pupils, reported by 83 per cent of respondents.

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Pupils with a range of additional needs - both wheelchair users and ambulant children - attended the Huddersfield Town, Chelsea, Southampton and Newcastle United fixtures, with the school receiving 11 tickets for each game.

While per pupil revenue covers the majority of our expenses related to delivery of the academic program, additional money must be raised to provide the support services needed to effectively serve pregnant and parenting teens and their children.

On 17 October 2012, additional national - level tables are being added containing a further breakdown of analyses for primary type of special educational need by pupil characteristics (e.g. free school meal eligibility, age, gender, ethnicity).

At its conclusion, it was decided it would remain non-statutory and that «teachers are best placed to understand the needs of their pupils and do not need additional central prescription».

What will make the difference to pupils who need additional help is ongoing support for literacy and numeracy such as one to one tuition and reading recovery programmes, both of which the Government recently announced would be axed.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said «It is important that pupils who need extra support with their learning receive that targeted help, however neither pupils nor teachers benefit if they are being overburdened with excessive hours of additional lessons which are eating into weekends, holidays and break times.

This will help you understand their current strengths and weaknesses at the beginning of year 7 and includes a useful spreadsheet which not only highlights pupils understanding but also groups it by class and even primary school to help you inform your feeder schools which areas they need to work on and may need additional help with and which areas they have covered well.

Money raised as part of the Sugar Levy will to be used to double the amount of money spent on sports in schools, and schools will be able to bid for funding to offer five hours or more a week of additional lessons or extracurricular activities, with the new flexibility arguably offering such schools the ability to tailor the structure and duration of their school day to suit their pupils» needs.

With the direct link between Pupil Premium funding for your school and registration for free school meals, this course is invaluable if you want to secure additional funding for your pupils who most need it, but more fundamentally, to make sure they also get the benefits of good school food.

More support is needed to ensure these pupils are given vital additional support with their learning in order to keep up with children of similar ability from more affluent backgrounds.»

Created around specific school needs, and recognising Brentfield's high percentage of pupils with English as an additional language, the partnership also provides the school with cutting - edge digital resources, helping teachers to meet the learning needs of each individual child.

The councils have also questioned whether the funding formula should provide so much funding for additional needs, such as schools with high numbers of deprivation or pupils with English as a second language.

For further education, additional topics will include e-Portfolios, tracking attendance and engagement and the use of remote learning to meet the needs of all pupils.

«Whilst the additional funding announced earlier in the year was a step in the right direction, it was never enough to meet the needs of the increasing number of SEND pupils.»

Suitable for pupils at KS2, 3 and 4, ideal for learners who need additional support in understanding the concept of rounding to sf.

«The national funding formula and high needs funding formula being phased in from 2018 do recognise the need for money to be allocated to pupils with EAL and SEND, however we must make sure that the curriculum recognises and allows for the needs of all pupils, and that schools are given the support needed to ensure those with additional or more complex needs can thrive.»

Suitable for pupils at KS2, 3 and 4, ideal for learners who need additional support in understanding the concept of rounding to decimal places.

The additional teaching accommodation was needed at the time as the school caters for over 1,600 pupils, with 400 in the sixth form from the start of the 2011/12 academic year and plans are in place to increase pupil numbers to 2,000.

It is also imperative to show an understanding of the needs of local children and how any new school will meet these needs, whether that's a higher number of pupils with English as an Additional Language or a focus on preparing young people for the world of work.

The government has announced over # 25 million worth of contracts to improve training for school staff in dealing with pupils with additional needs, as well as provide additional support and advice for families.

It would require hiring an additional 145,000 teachers, on top of standard hiring needs, to reduce average pupil - teacher ratios from the current 16 - to - 1 to pre-recession ratios of 15.3 to 1.

Further details were announced in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, with the promise of a national rate for each pupil, with extra funding for those with additional needs.

The teachers of Balmedie School have already seen the impact that the service can have on their pupils, whether that's through the literacy activities that support pupils with additional needs or the videos that provide pupils with a real - world context.

A DfE spokesman said: «The government, in a tight capital settlement for 2011 - 12, prioritised basic need to support the provision of additional pupil places, including doubling the amount allocated to local authorities to # 800m.

Key Stage 1 (including Phonics Screening Check) • DfE should carefully evaluate all available evidence of the link between attainment in the Phonics Screening Check and future reading performance • Steps should be taken to strengthen further the instructions to schools to refrain from public discussion of the content of the Phonics Screening Check until the end of the administration period • Evidence from 2012 suggests that the Check does identify those pupils most in need of additional support.

Those pupils in Year 7 who need additional literacy support also benefit from studying the Fresh Start programme of intervention.

The spokesman said that tests at the end of primary school «help teachers understand how pupils are doing and identify where additional support is needed, as well as helping us make sure schools are doing well.

We also think that the evidence shows that if schools want to use any additional resource, such as the Pupil Premium, to benefit disadvantaged learners they should not assume that any increased allocation alone will improve learning, but they will need to decide specifically and deliberately how it should be spent, and then evaluate the impact of this for themselves.

When designing the testing regime for schools, we should also be paying careful attention to the rights of pupils with additional needs.

The additional educational needs of each of these populations can best be addressed through an equalized pupil weighting which would increase the pupil count for both aid and revenue limit purposes.

The aim is for it to provide a highly academic and rigorous curriculum to stretch and challenge the most academically able children in Swindon, free of charge, to pupils who consistently achieve at Level 5 or higher in Primary School and who are hardworking and committed to the additional homework and prep needed to achieve outstanding academic results.

The survey by The Key, a leadership and management support service, also revealed that almost 90 per cent of school leaders thought cuts to council services had a «detrimental impact» on the support their institutions received for SEND, and 88 per cent believe initial teacher training does not adequately prepare teachers to support pupils with additional needs.

The funding formula is made up of four building blocks: basic per - pupil funding, additional needs funding, school - led funding and geographic funding.

This was briefly referred to within the Secretary of State's announcement: «continue to protect funding for pupils with additional needs, as proposed in the consultation published in December».

However, pupil numbers are expected to grow by four per cent at primary level and 20 per cent at secondary by 2026, meaning a large number of additional teachers are needed, especially in EBacc subjects, which the government wants 90 per cent of pupils to study by 2025.

«We at DFER applaud Mayor Muriel Bowser and Deputy Mayor Niles for prioritizing public education in the proposed FY2017 budget, which invests an additional $ 220 million dollars for full modernization of DCPS schools over the next two years, ends the «phases» approach, and increases the Universal Per Pupil Funding Formula to allow for schools to better meet the needs of every child.

You will assist other staff in creating and implementing risk assessment and you will identify and address the needs of pupils that require additional support by providing 1:1 or small group support.

The formula will be made up of four building blocks: per - pupil costs, additional needs costs; school costs; and geographic costs.

So additional funding of schools to cope with pupils having particular needs must be purely arbitrary?

«In recent years, a large number of additional primary school places have been provided to keep pace with demand, and as these pupils progress through the school system, we expect to see a significant need for additional secondary places in the next few years,» they added.

Amjad Ali is an assistant headteacher at the 1,400 pupil Cheney School in Oxford, with the role of supporting any student who has additional needs.

In planning the allocation of additional teaching supports, the over-riding principle is that resources are deployed to address the identified needs of pupils.

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The main purpose of this seminar is to provide guidance to Primary school leaders on the use, organisation and deployment of additional teaching resources for pupils with special educational needs.

All schoolchildren adopted from care are to benefit from # 20m of additional Pupil Premium money to get the support they need to thrive at school — helping around an extra 10,000 pupils.