Sentences with phrase «attending grammar schools»

In Kent, an increasing number of children who have received the pupil premium are attending grammar schools, so Kent is working at widening access.

This is largely because those attending grammar schools have to pass an academic test and only one in 20 pupils among the top performing pupils are on free school meals, they said.

Critics of the expansion plans have focused on the low number of pupils attending grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals - used as a traditional measure of poverty.

Kent County Council has opened an inquiry into the lack of children from low - income backgrounds attending grammar schools.

Poor children are considerably less likely to attend grammar school.

3 pm Local Government: Northamptonshire children denied the chance to attend grammar school.

On John Bear Mitchell's first day of junior high school — off the Penobscot reservation where he lived and had attended grammar school — a teacher scolded him for speaking in his native language.

Theresa May wants to remove the ban on new selective institutions, and Justine Greening, the education secretary, announced at the weekend that she will build a system that gives «every child» a chance to attend a grammar school.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

«Simply allowing more disadvantaged pupils to attend grammar schools will not create the systematic improvement needed for a world - class education system,» he said.

We estimate that 0.76 % of FSM children attended grammar school compared to 7.5 % of prep school children.

But the researchers found these children «were substantially less likely to attend grammar schools» than children from better off areas.

Previous Sutton Trust research has shown that disadvantaged children are much less likely than other pupils to attend grammar schools.

Previous research by the Sutton Trust has shown that children from the poorest homes are much less likely than any other pupils to attend a grammar school, even after allowing for location and prior attainment.

Grammar schools peaked between the late - 1940s and the late - 1960s, with about a quarter of secondary pupils attending a grammar school during much of this time.

Mrs May, who herself attended a grammar school which became a comprehensive school while she was there, is thought to be a supporter of new selective schools.

During a forceful speech in parliament this afternoon, the former Liberal Democrat leader said he had been told there was «one un-elected political apparatchik in Number 10» who had attended a grammar school and has «persuaded the prime minister that therefore it's a good idea».

White, working class youngsters are the least likely to attend a grammar school, it adds.

Disadvantaged Indian pupils were four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school, while disadvantaged Chinese pupils were 15 times as likely.

It reports that disadvantaged Chinese pupils are fifteen times as likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school.

Their research also reveals how ethnic background plays a significant role in grammar school entry, with disadvantaged Indian pupils four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school.

He said far too few children from lower - income families attended grammar schools, which the research put down to the fact that, by the time the 11 - plus is taken, 60 per cent of the disadvantaged attainment gap — equivalent to 10 months of learning by this stage — has emerged.

And while the few pupils who go to grammar schools and who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) tend to have better results, FSM - eligible pupils in the same areas who do not attend grammar schools — which is the majority — are likely to have lower attainment than those in other parts of England.

Having attended grammar school in Minneapolis, I can testify that this adage isn't complete hyperbole - a disproportionate amount of my early life...

In his hometown of Bradford, he attended grammar school and later studied at the Bradford School of Art from 1953 to 1957, when he received the National Diploma of Design.

Born in Donaueschingen, a small village in the Black Forest region of Germany, two months before the end of World War II, Kiefer attended grammar school in Rastatt, before starting courses in law and languages at the University of Freiburg.

Not exact matches

There he visited a grammar school that friend and famous chef Daniel Boulud attended as a boy, and ate a school lunch with 2nd graders.

Corbyn, 66, attended Adams» Grammar School in Shropshire before moving to London.

However, the Government must let go of its obsession with imposing structural solutions to the education service which continue to privilege children attending certain schools, such as free schools and grammar schools.

After attending Bec Grammar School in Tooting, he went on to gain a master's degree in business at the age of 25, and went into a career with Tate & Lyle.

It was taken by a ConservativeHome reader who was one of the very few real activists to attend a fringe meeting on grammar schools.

[4] She attended Harrow County Grammar School for Girls, and then Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read history.

She attended Monkwearmouth Grammar School before going on to take a BSc in sociology at West Ham Technical Institute (now the University of East London) and a Diploma in Social Work from the University of Birmingham.

He attended the Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool and, from there, went to King's College, Cambridge, to read History as an exhibitioner, where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society with an elite membership.

Hames was born in Hertfordshire and attended Watford Grammar School for Boys.

From a very young age he was keen to be an actor, which intensified when he attended Paisley Grammar School.

She attended a convent school before going to Holly Lodge Grammar School for school before going to Holly Lodge Grammar School for School for Girls.

More importantly, the director successfully conveys the period setting, one that will seem familiar to anyone who has ever attended a Catholic grammar school.

The Council is the largest in the UK to retain a mainly selective school system, with 25 per cent of secondary school age pupils attending one of the 33 grammar schools in the area.

It also found that grammar schools were overwhelmingly favoured by those who attended them, with 61 per cent wanting the government to build more, compared to 17 per cent who want them all scrapped.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

Ferede's speech, «The Grammar of Purpose,» focused on the issues that have compelled her classmates to attend the Ed School and the questions that linger in each of them.

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Kenny's medal - winning cycling teammates were also largely state educated, with 92 per cent attending either a comprehensive or grammar school.

The poll also found that grammar schools were overwhelmingly favoured by those who attended them, with 61 per cent wanting the government to build more, compared to 17 per cent who want them all scrapped.

Damian attended St Ambrose Grammar School, Altrincham before completing a degree in politics, philosophy and economics.

Recent research from the Education Policy Institute showed grammar school pupils travelled, on average, twice as far to get to school as those attending non-selective schools.

In fact, a pupil attending a private prep school is ten times more likely to enter a grammar than a pupil on free school meals.

When I discuss our GCSE policy with young people who attended top comprehensive schools (and independent and grammar schools), they take it for granted that pupils study maths, English and science at GCSE, alongside a foreign language and either history or geography.