Sentences with phrase «cent of parents»

Also, 74 per cent of parents said their children were more willing to try new things, and 60 per cent of teachers noticed improved confidence, resilience and well being.

Similarly, 67 per cent of parents said they had to remind their sons to study, compared to 55 per cent who said they had to remind their daughters.

Studies have shown that up to seventy per cent of parents of children with ADHD report that the children have difficulty falling asleep and that they spend a long time putting them to bed.

On the issue of current school funding, eight per cent of parents believes schools are in financial difficulty, with 24 per cent believing them to be well - funded.

According to the research, 23 per cent of parents with children eating a free infant meal say the main benefit to their child is the greater variety of food they will now eat.

It also revealed that 46 per cent of parents pay for meals solely online.

Only 47 per cent of parents felt concerned by this, but poorer or younger parents were more likely to be worried, as were those with children at secondary school.

Just 34 per cent of all parents agree schools are the best place for their child to learn about sexuality.

Consequently 90 per cent agreed they would like attempt a degree, 100 per cent of parents stated it had raised their aspirations.

The data showed that 3.5 per cent of parents did not get any of their preferences for secondary school, while 3.1 per cent missed out on all their choices of primary school.

Parents also witnessed a long - term impact, with 23 per cent of parents reporting better school attendance.

It disclosed that 23 per cent of parents claiming to never have read one, and only 17 per cent believing them to be useful ad easy to read.

56 per cent of parents revealed that they were unhappy about the lack of high quality play facilities in their local area.

Despite the survey suggesting that one in 14 children are being cyber bullied, 81 per cent of parents assume their child has not encountered any dangers online at school.

The survey found 91 per cent of parents started reading books aloud at home before their child turned six.

Six per cent of parents also say that they don't believe that they would adequately support their children with their coding homework.

Of course, this does not necessarily mean that 85 per cent of parents wanted their child to attend that school above all other schools.

Over 78 per cent of parents believe the cost of sending children to a state school is increasing, new research shows.

There is a study showing that 77 per cent of parents with overweight children didn't recognise they were overweight.

A poll of over 1,000 parents and 1,000 children shows support to the campaign and 79 per cent of parents felt that exercise made their children happier.

While over 85 per cent of parents said that the experience of eating out has improved considerably over the last three years, 73 per cent continued to find the overall experience frustrating.

The figures show that just six per cent of young people and three per cent of parents believe that their is enough support for children's mental health problems.

«Parents educational expectations for their child were another factor, with 18 per cent of children whose parents expected them to obtain postgraduate qualifications sent to an independent school, compared to six per cent of parents who didn't expect their child to obtain a university degree.

Social media is now being embraced by a third of schools and the recent inclusion of app technology has reached nearly 20per cent of parents in both primary and secondary schools.

Polling for the Trust suggests that 90 per cent of parents think schools should adopt a stay - on - site policy at lunchtime, with 67 per cent agreeing that children would eat more healthily if they weren't allowed to leave school at lunch.

A recent survey by ParentPay revealed that only six per cent of parents still pay for school meals in cash, which highlights the significant impact that this new payment method has made.

Sarah Widmeyer, managing director and head of Wealth Advisory Services, at the bank, said that even though 86 per cent of parents surveyed considered themselves good role models for financial planning, some students were treating their parents like personal ATMs.

«Despite rising pupil numbers, 95 per cent of parents received an offer at one of their three preferred schools.

In November 2014, a survey of 10,000 parents carried out by LACA (formerly the Local Authority Caterers Association) and distributed by schools online payment provider ParentPay, revealed that 90 per cent of parents preferred making cashless payments to their children's school.

The Income Collection Survey received responses from more E than 800 schools and showed that 48 per cent of parents now pay online or via an alternative method.

The figures also highlighted that 87.8 per cent of parents got their first pick of primary schools, compared to 88.4 per cent last year.

The poll did find that 76 per cent of parents saving for their child's post-secondary education had set up an RESP account, but many of them lacked basic knowledge about how RESPs actually work.

In areas where grammar schools were the norm, the 1998 regulations made under the Act provided for ballots to be triggered by 20 per cent of parents at all schools signing a petition, while in areas where grammar schools were less common, only parents of children at «feeder schools» would be allowed to vote.

Still, the fragments add up to only about 0.04 per cent of the parent body, Jenniskens thinks, so most of the material evaporated in the initial fireball.

The company found that 21 per cent of children play outdoors compared with 71 per cent of their parents when they were children, and that in the UK, we are 20 per cent less active than we were in 1961.

According to statistics from Play England, while 71 per cent of parents played outside their homes when they were children, only 21 per cent of their children are allowed that independence.

Despite reservations that an online system would not suit their catchment area, they have over 50 per cent of parents registered and making regular payments.

A further 33 per cent of parents preferenced vocational opportunities in schools as of high importance, wanting schools to provide better apprenticeships.

MyEd revealed that 41 per cent of parents ranked the need for a cap on class sizes as one of their top three priorities, whilst 34 per cent desired teachers to be fully qualified.

Only 17 per cent of parents approached felt that extension of free nursery provision was a priority, while 28 per cent considered a reduction in university tuition fees from # 9,000 per year to # 6,000 per years as a leading preference.

On the political issues facing them at the General Election, 43 per cent of parents polled stated that education and school funding will be a key issue in deciding their vote in the 2017 General Election.

It showed that 61 per cent of students achieved higher than their expected grade, 23 per cent of parents saw better school attendance, and 71 per cent of students felt teachers better understood their learning habits.

On average, 25 per cent of parents around the world said they helped their child for seven hours or more, but almost the same proportion (23 per cent) said they didn't help at all.

When asked about the most important factors when choosing their child's current school, «quality of teachers» and «location or distance from home» came equal first globally (45 per cent of parents chose these two answers in their top three).

The survey found that only 20 per cent of parents correctly gauged the cost of post-secondary education tuition at between $ 6,000 to $ 9,999.

According to the survey, 60 per cent of parents never monitor their child's social media account and, in fact, are wrestling their own issues about how much is too much screen time, let alone providing good guidance to their children.

Back in 2015, a survey commissioned by ITV revealed that 12 per cent of parents of primary school aged children admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe to get their child into a desirable faith school.

Thirty - five per cent of parents who responded to its consultation favoured a default ban on websites featuring adult material, compared to 13 % who wanted parents to tailor their own restrictions and 15 % who wanted a combination of the two.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «Despite rising pupil numbers, 95.9 per cent of parents in England received an offer at one of their top three preferred primary schools in 2015.