Sentences with phrase «become an academy because»

It might be tempting to become an academy because you feel that this is something every school will eventually have to do, but this line of thinking can prevent valuable consideration of the real pros and cons of conversion for your school.

Given that over two thirds of academies have become academies because they were already performing well — they were «converted» to give them more freedom — it wouldn't be surprising if they had particularly good results.

If the choice is become an academy because you know that actually you can improve the quality of what's going on, then that would seem the right thing to do.

Education secretary Morgan said the comparison was unfair as many of the schools included in the figures were forced to become academies because of poor performance, the suggestion being that their poor Ofsted ratings may relate to historical issues.

Not exact matches

That's because the 17 - year old center back was busy preparing to become the first Atlanta United academy player to make his USL debut with ATL UTD 2 while still being an academy player.

Although crib bumpers are still used, many doctors — and the American Academy of Pediatrics — recommend avoiding them because they can easily become a suffocation hazard.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, during NREM is when it becomes more difficult to wake a child because they are in such a deep sleep.

And so mitigation efforts become more valuable — more worthwhile — because they can prevent these costs,» said Hausman, who is co-author of the study that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

While I came into the academy because of my love for teaching, I believe that I have become much more than an educator.

Because of that, the Academy Awards became increasingly competitive.

Deadline's official Problematic - Man - Getting - in - Front - of - the - Story Correspondent, Mike Fleming Jr., broke the news that Affleck notified the Academy he will not attend because he «did not want to become a distraction from the focus that should be on the performances of the actresses in the category.»

«I hope that they will because we are convinced that becoming academies does lift standards but they can do the right thing for them and I think that reflects the concerns and the conversations that we have had.»

However, the report did note that academies are significantly more likely to be rated by Ofsted as «Outstanding» compared to similar maintained schools, although this finding is less robust for converter academies because many have not been re-inspected since becoming an academy.

«UCL was the first university in the country to have taken the step of becoming the sole sponsor of an academy because we believe that in sharing facilities, expertise and providing support to teachers and pupils, the partnership can bring about a fundamental improvement in the educational experience of pupils in the school and beyond.»

The trust says the growth is because more schools are becoming academies - state - funded but independent schools that can set their own admission rules.

Labour's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: «Just because they have become an academy or are part of a chain doesn't mean that a school will automatically succeed.

However, the real number may be higher, because, as Schools Week revealed in July, the data for more than 700 schools is missing from Ofsted statistics after their records were wiped when they converted to become academies.

Earlier the general secretary of the NASUWT Chris Keates said teachers understood the need for inspection, but believed it had become too «high stakes» because a bad Ofsted rating could lead to a school being taken over or turned in to an academy.

In a particularly strange example, if a school became an academy between October 2010 and May 2014 it could be exempt from national standards for school meals (because this was not included in its contract), although every other academy has to follow them.

Outwood Academy Portland's principal, Dr Phillip Smith, says that while a renewed focus on attainment in core subjects since the school became an academy has been crucial, the school's success was only possible thanks to the numerous extra-curricular activities now provided because they turned the school into a place where children wantedAcademy Portland's principal, Dr Phillip Smith, says that while a renewed focus on attainment in core subjects since the school became an academy has been crucial, the school's success was only possible thanks to the numerous extra-curricular activities now provided because they turned the school into a place where children wantedacademy has been crucial, the school's success was only possible thanks to the numerous extra-curricular activities now provided because they turned the school into a place where children wanted to be.

One last comment, as I understand it when a community school becomes an academy then if it is a sponsored conversion (e.g. because the school is failing and deemed to require substantial investment to turn it around) then the sponsoring MAT receives additional funding.

• Where it is clear that the local authority can no longer viably support its remaining schools because too many schools have already become academies.

The cash was allocated as part of the government's drive to force all schools to become academies, which has since been abandoned, and officials say the funding has been taken back because of the policy change.

AFT is holding the press conference at Woodland Hills Academy because back in 2006 it was the first school to operate under the Expanded School - Based Management Model (ESBMM), one of three different school autonomy models that teachers can opt into becoming when writing school improvement plans.

«One of them is schools becoming academies, principally because we want to encourage them to move, once they become academies... to contributing as part of a multi-academy trust system.»

He said this was because hundreds of schools wanted to become Academies, over a thousand schools had applied and many of them wanted to open in September.

Was it not the case though that the schools which chose to become academies did so because they were already higher performers?

The government says the scheme to allow all good schools to become academies will drive up standards, because it believes the system will be less bureaucratic and that head teachers are best - placed to know what is best for their pupils.

For the past decade or so, April has become even crueler paradoxically enough because of the Academy of American Poets» proclamation of it as National Poetry Month...

It was because of her outreach that Neel's work became widely known and she was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which is now called the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He became one of the central figures of the Newlyn School, which - because of his many successes at the Royal Academy - soon became firmly established.

This raises a cautionary concern, because when an academy becomes a bastion of orthodoxy, the danger posed by the absence of any dissenting voices is the possibility of descending into the kind of automatic formulas that make this room so lacking in texture.