Sentences with phrase «are more pupils»

Yes of course there are more pupils in good or outstanding schools — there are more pupils because the school age population is growing!

The Ofsted annual report 2015/16 highlights that overall standards are rising, with 1.8 m more pupils in good or outstanding maintained schools in 2016 than in 2010.

Not exact matches

But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.

Teachers, for instance, say they value creativity in their students but have been shown to actually prefer more docile and conventional pupils.

Mr Campbell said his struggle to keep his boyfriend a secret from the college was made more difficult when three pupils arrived at the wedding of his aunt.

The Church of England welcomed some aspects of the review, but also said: «We are however disappointed that the report misunderstands the role of Church of England schools in providing a rounded education to more than a million pupils from all backgrounds as part of our commitment to the common good.

Paul Barber's speaking after the government announced in September it would be relaxing a cap on faith schools, which forced them to selectively choose no more than half of their pupils

In nursery, primary and secondary schools teachers are more delighted with a pupil's good «social skills» («getting along») than with the high marks of a solitary child.

Students attending faith state schools in England are less likely to be absent from school than pupils... More

Government figures reveal that 339,000 state school pupils were excluded in England in 2015/16 - twelve per cent more than the previous year.

With a consistency rare in educational research, studies have found that pupils in and graduates of religious schools are, if anything, more tolerant of racial and religious differences than are those educated in public schools.

A third of their pupils are non-Catholic and they educate more than 26,000 Muslim pupils.

The Catholic Church is pledging to continue support for pupils and staff at Corpus Christi College in... More

Some of Bultmann's own pupils began what has been called «A New Quest for the Historical Jesus».12 These scholars, recognizing the pitfalls of the first quest, were more modest in their aims.

So it's not unusual to see 30 - 34 students in a class» and therefore pupils who need more help may not get it.

He had an extraordinarily active and successful career, among the fruits of which were the distribution of over two million copies of the Scripture text, in different languages; the equipment of several hundred missionaries; the circulation of more than a hundred and eleven million of scriptural books, pamphlets, and tracts; the building of five large orphanages, and the keeping and educating of thousands of orphans; finally, the establishment of schools in which over a hundred and twenty - one thousand youthful and adult pupils were taught.

So, Miller has been preaching attitude and aggression to his star pupil, who is more teddy than grizzly bear with friends, classmates and teammates.

Stan Kroenke has dollar signs for pupils, he wants to make arsenal a cash rich part of his portfolio, so that it becomes an even more tempting magnet for would be buyers.

Navratilova and Mayotte are her first official adult world - class pupils, but Carillo was a more typical recipient of King's everyday impromptu coaching.

For instance, Gary Colson, at age 53, was the Lobos» coach during Longley's freshman season, but the player and coach used to hang out together at Colson's restaurant, Ogelvie's, more as pals than as mentor and pupil.

Schools that book trips to The Varsity Match for 20 or more pupils will be entered into a free prize draw to win one of four special coaching clinics at the stadium in - between the women's and men's Varsity Matches on Thursday 6 December 2018.

All schools that book trips of 20 pupils or more by Sunday 13 November will be entered into the prize draw.

Even when children find it hard to open up, Ms Mandell says schools can do more to encourage pupils to seek help.

All the arguments levelled in the US are the same ones we dealt with — and now that our work has been independently evaluated we are proving that a whole school approach to educating children about food, where it comes from, how its produced, and cooked is a more effective way of reducing obesity, but also increasing pupil attainment and achievement.

It looks at the British school programmes that are working to help their pupils develop character, but points out that nothing has more influence than the home environment and the quality of the pre-school years.

Where individual pupils require additional support that costs more than # 6,000, the excess should be met by top - up funding associated with the individual pupil.

The group should include one or more individuals from the following list: • The headteacher or a member of the senior management team • Parents • Governors • The school catering manager and / or area supervisor • Midday supervisors • Class teachers • Pupils (4 - 6 has been shown to be a good number).

Members of local humanist groups attended talks given to parents in Milton Keynes, Wakefield and Bournemouth, and more recently, members of Feminist Action Cambridge (FAC) were able to attend a talk given to secondary pupils in a school.

«If it is the case that pupils from the same year group have been marked more harshly if they entered later, that would be patently unfair,» shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg declared earlier.

They can also be socio - economically selective, with richer parents more likely to manipulate the system to get their pupils into the better schools in their area — in other words, going to church when they otherwise wouldn't.

«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

A further problem is that increasing taxes on high achievers yet more will put them way beyond the Laffer Curve prompting Ireland to enter the market for a start The next problem is that you assume a «Pupil Premium» is a popular idea.

«I'm guaranteeing for the next three years - and I've agreed this with the chancellor of the exchequer - that funding per - pupil will keep rising for every school - in fact, it will rise on average by more than 2 %, that's more than cost pressures.»

When asked about how financial pressures affect pupils, 72 % said they were more likely to be absent from school, 65 % said they were less able to concentrate in lessons, 60 % said they caused behaviour problems and 40 % said they felt alienated and disaffected.

Yet, more crucially, changes are moving so quickly because they are finding some traction with the people on the ground to whom it really matters — pupils, parents and even teachers.

«As it is nothing more than an unnecessary performance measure, not a qualification, the select committee is quite right to say that any attempts to provide formal certificates to pupils who reach its attainment levels must be stopped.

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Commissioner for Special Duties in Ogun State, Adeleke Adewolu, has said more than 270,000 pupils in 1,510 public primary schools in the state are currently benefitting from the Federal Government's HomeGrown School feeding programme.

The Government has failed to keep the promise in the Coalition Agreement that this pledge — intended to spend more money on disadvantaged pupils — would be funded «from outside the schools budget».

He was rewarded with extra funding to cut class sizes, and subsequently there has since 1997 been a massive increase in literacy and numeracy, and there are 42,000 more teachers than in 1997, with doubled spending per pupil in frontline [clarification needed] schools (and over 100,000 teaching assistants) through to 2010.

«Increased freedoms for schools have also resulted in heightened concerns about widening racial disparities affecting BME pupils, with black Caribbean pupils being three times more likely to be excluded from schools comparted to white pupils.

Private schools have been issued a stern warning today as Tristram Hunt told them to either start doing more to help state pupils or risk losing # 700 million - worth of tax breaks.

Teachers have reported there is still more to do to ensure LGBTI equality in schools for all staff and pupils.

However, officials note that «the current inspection framework is antithetical to the Steiner ethos / pedagogical approach» in terms of «Literacy in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1)», where Ofsted required «more formal learning»; «KS2 tests», as «Last year, the Academy pupils did not sit the tests (the Academy provided the exam papers and rooms for pupils to sit the exams but parents chose not to allow their pupils to sit the tests)»; and «Teaching and learning», where it is noted that the schools consider that «any process which judges learning as the immediate outcome from teaching in a lesson is inappropriate.

More common is the «comprehensive» system, in which pupils of all abilities and aptitudes are taught together.

I am sure that the new Government's commitment to such measures as the pupil premium and support for further education colleges and universities will give the young people of my constituency the educational opportunity that will make them more socially mobile, raise their aspirations, unlock untapped potential and let individuals take control of their own lives once more.

«All the evidence confirms that schools that work in isolation from others are more likely to experience problems of disruptive pupil behaviour and truancy.

«With the savage cuts that will undoubtedly be announced by the Chancellor in the autumn Comprehensive Spending Review, the introduction of the pupil premium will represent nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory for the Liberal Democrats who originally advocated this policy.

Conditional rules for universities charging higher fees and a pupil premium might seem like bandages on a car crash victim, but it's more than you would have got under a purely Conservative government.

That means more than 2,100 pupils either were not tested or their test results did not get reported to authorities.

As chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, I was invited to glamorous Washington galas, the ones where thousands of eyes make no eye contact, where pupils constantly rove in search of someone more powerful.