Sentences with phrase «cent of primary schools now»

Enthusiasm for kitchen gardens in schools has swept across Australia over the past decade, springing up as tiny pocket - sized patches and vertical gardens in the inner city to expansive plots in country areas.Nobody knows what proportion of schools have a kitchen garden, but anecdotal evidence at least in New South Wales suggests about 50 per cent of primary schools now have them.

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Now a primary school with fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieving the basic standard of level 4 in reading, writing and maths (that increases to 65 per cent next year), and fewer pupils than average making the expected levels of progress between KS1 and KS2 will be taken over.

For example, 61 per cent of secondary schools and 15 per cent of primary schools are now academies or free schools and so do not have to teach the national curriculum.

With 71 per cent of five - to - six year olds now having a device in their bedroom, and four in ten primary school children owning their own mobile phone, we need to ensure that our children are navigating the internet safely.

«In 1977 around 28.5 per cent of teaching staff were male in primary schools Australia - wide, now they only make up about 18 per cent of teaching staff, and when we followed this trend into the future we found that by the year 2067 they will have disappeared from primary schools completely,» said lead author Dr Kevin McGrath.

Growing population As the RIBA report points out, a booming UK population has meant that 250,000 more school places are needed now than in 2000, 90 per cent of them at primary level.

According to a report from the Department of Education, pupil illness now accounts for 60 per cent of all absences across state - funded primary, secondary and special schools.

Our annual «Impact of New Technologies» survey into the views of English Maintained Schools on a range of new technologies used by teachers and students carried out in conjunction with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that an increasing majority of schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2Schools on a range of new technologies used by teachers and students carried out in conjunction with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that an increasing majority of schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2011/12.

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.

Sixty five per cent of secondary schools and 18 per cent of primaries now operate outside of local authority control, with their numbers set to swell rapidly over the next few months.

The government's view is that there has been «significant progress», pointing to 69.3 per cent of disadvantaged pupils now meeting the expected level in both reading and maths at the end of primary school, compared with 62.2 per cent in 2011.

Expansion at four schools is now planned after four per cent of pupils (more than 130) missed out on a place at any of their preferred primary places this September.