Sentences with phrase «cent of primary schools say»

According to BESA research, only 44 per cent of primary schools say they are well - resourced when it comes to broadband.

85 per cent of secondary schools and 62 per cent of primary schools said they disagreed with the idea.

In total, 88 per cent of primary schools said that the management and security of tablets is significant or a very significant barrier to adoption.

Not exact matches

The research showed that while 84 per cent of secondary schools and 56 per cent of primary schools offered some form of counselling services for students, almost half said that a lack of local services and knowing what support is appropriate hindered their provision of support.

While back in the academic year 2014/15, 55 per cent of primary schools and 38 per cent of secondary schools said this would be a focus in budgets, this year we are seeing seven per cent of primary schools reducing their spending.

Poor Wi - Fi provision is cited as an issue affecting 65 per cent of primary schools and 54 per cent of secondary schools, and a significant number (42 per cent of schools in the primary sector and 31 per cent of secondary schools) said their broadband provision did not meet requirements.

Caroline Wright, director general designate at BESA says: «Our latest research shows that there is a growing desire and need by teachers for high quality CPD: 48 per cent of primary schools and 41 per cent of secondary schools state that CPD will be a focus for 2016/17.

«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.

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.

Annabel Karmel MBE, leading children's food expert and well - regarded parenting author, said: «With almost 20 per cent of children deemed obese by the time they leave primary school at age 11, healthy eating must become commonplace in the daily school routine.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has said it had created an extra 300,000 primary places since 2010, which had been achieved with the 85 per cent of primary schools that are council - maintained.

Twenty - one per cent of primary school heads reported that their school had got rid of teaching staff, and over half (54 per cent) said their teaching assistants had been cut.

«Government schools are still the major provider of primary school education in Australia, followed by 19 per cent of school children who attend Catholic primary schools and 12 per cent who attend independent schools,» she said.

A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM Our survey found that over 16 per cent of administrators in primary and secondary schools said that they had been abused on five or more separate occasions during the past year.

The research, undertaken with a representative sample of 906 school leaders by the National Education Research Panel (NERP), reveals that 53 per cent of primary schools and 52 per cent of secondary schools say their school is not adequately funded to provide a suitable teaching and learning environment.

«It's interesting, because Silverton Primary School sits in the bottom 10 per cent of the country socio - economically, and yet we perform in the top 5 per cent in the country, so the results are extremely high,» Tony said.

Almost all of primary school leaders (97 per cent) felt people underestimate the level of mental health problems with pupils and 95 per cent said they feel that their teachers already go «above and beyond» to support the pupils.

The research, undertaken with a representative sample of 906 school leaders by the National Education Research Panel (NERP), reveals that 53 per cent of primary schools and 52 per cent of secondary schools say their school isn't adequately funded to provide a suitable teaching and learning environment.

Seventy - two per cent of primary pupils said that their behaviour at school is better after a residential and 71 per cent of secondary pupils felt more strongly motivated to learn.

Rise in orders Looking ahead to the 2014/15 academic year, an increasing number of schools indicate funding will be in - line with the recent past, while 13 per cent of primary and eight per cent of secondary schools say it will increase.

Teachers also said they believe 39 per cent of children in the UK leave primary school disliking sport and 42 per cent do not enjoy PE lessons in school.

Research showed that 33 per cent of primary and 49 per cent of secondary schools say they make some or extensive use eBooks on tablets.

However it is a shame that with the proven benefits of e-books our research indicates that 58 per cent of primary schools and 17 per cent of secondary schools say they make no use of eBooks.

In addition, over a third (34 per cent) of primary school teachers say they witness gender stereotyping in their schools on at least a weekly basis.

Looking ahead to the next year, 79 per cent of primary leaders and 92 per cent of secondary leaders say they are not optimistic about funding for their schools.

Co-founder Allana Gay, deputy headteacher at Lea Valley primary school in north London, said she and colleagues were dismayed when the 2015 school workforce data showed 93.4 per cent of headteachers were white British — a larger percentage than the 87 per cent of white British classroom teachers.

Teachers also said more than one in three children dislike exercise by the time they leave primary school and believe 42 per cent of children don't enjoy PE lessons.

Confusion continues over the Conservatives» plan to offer free breakfasts to primary school pupils after Justine Greening said the party have completed calculations based on a take - up of just 20 per cent.

«More than 96 per cent of primary schools reported the grant was having a positive impact on their pupil's physical fitness, healthy lifestyle, skills and behaviour, with 87 per cent of schools saying that the quality of PE teaching has increased since 2012/13.»

Despite a lack of faith in the results of primary assessments, 64 per cent of secondary teachers said their school created ability sets by using KS2 data, raising further questions about the efficacy of ability groupings.

and probably about 40 per cent put their hands up,» said Ms Smith, of a recent online safety talk she gave at an Australian primary school.