Sentences with phrase «challenge all pupils by»

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He and one of his former pupils, Fr Stephen Dingley, a PhD in Astronomy, both spoke at the October conference, Catholicism and the Challenge of Science, organised by Faith Movement, which I attended on behalf of New Directions.

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«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

Using the education of Welsh pupils, striving for attainment in some of the most challenged and deprived communities of Britain, as a means to score points off the Labour Party, is a cheap trick which will be seen for what it is by the Welsh people.

His words were echoed in the Commons by Schools Minister Nick Gibb who said: «We see a new and stronger role for local authorities emerging over the years as champions of parents and pupils, challenging rather than defending underperforming schools.»

By 2014/15 the government will be spending # 2.5 bn on the premium, but I would personally like to see funding in the next parliament grow towards # 5bn per year, to cover more pupils and to ensure that schools have the resources to match the very tough challenges.

As part of the broader Generating Genius program, Richards facilitated and hosted a school challenge at ICL that paired pupils from inner city schools and Eton College, the prestigious public school, to help them understand different approaches to learning by solving science and engineering - based challenges together.

«By taking part in our Mr Men and Little Miss Challenges school pupils, parents and teachers can help children today and in the future — and save a young life that might otherwise be lost forever.»

As with much outdoor learning such an exercise can be significantly enhanced by getting pupils to consider the challenges of mapping before they set out.

The challenge for teachers is how to engage their pupils by increasing the demand for reading across their school by helping pupils to find a text that unlocks a whole new world of ideas and viewpoints or one that can help them to explore their own identities, situations and aspirations.

LEGO ® Education empowers teachers and their pupils to explore, learn and apply coding to the real world, by uniquely combining the familiar LEGO ® bricks with easy to use coding software and engaging STEM challenges designed to meet UK curriculum standards.

After completing the exercise pupils have gained vocabulary knowledge to complete speaking or written work on the challenges faced by refugees.

The idea being considered by Cambridge Assessment, which owns the OCR board, would involve getting teachers to submit questions that have worked well in class at challenging pupils.

The ATL surveyed 1,250 school staff across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and found that 77 per cent had been pushed or shoved by a pupil, with around 90 per cent saying they had dealt with challenging behaviour such as shouting or swearing.

The new tests are expected to automatically adjust the level of questions to suit the pupil taking the test by providing an appropriate level of challenge.

By the end of this lesson pupils will be able to discuss the benefits and challenges of arranged marriages.

These colour coded numbers will enable those pupils who find number work challenging to take an active part in the lesson as they will be able to identify «missing numbers» by using the colour chart.

This project set out to create a Drama Toolkit for Language Teaching by creating a series of drama activities designed to enthuse, encourage, excite and challenge pupils in the context of traditional French stories from the Caribbean (primary) and the life and work of Marie Curie (secondary).

Pupils develop an understanding of the challenges presented by partition and the creation of a new country.

Ambition two is closing the attainment gap by raising standards for every pupil, supporting teachers early in their career as well as getting more great teachers in areas where there remain significant challenges.

Judges from Viking, provider of everyday essentials to schools, and competition partner, Eastpoint, were impressed by Shajeevana's design and it was clear she evaluated her environment and the challenges pupils do face in school.

Of course, schools and government will need to address social inequalities by ensuring disadvantaged pupils have access to tech outside of school, another challenge in itself.

The education sector is always evolving, and in turn, so are the challenges faced by schools, leaders, teachers and pupils.

(a) In grades kindergarten through five, the program shall be designed by a certified school counselor in coordination with the teaching staff, and any appropriate pupil personnel service providers, for the purpose of preparing students to participate effectively in their current and future educational programs, to provide information related to college and careers, and to assist students who may exhibit challenges to academic success, including but not limited to attendance or behavioral concerns, and where appropriate make a referral to a properly licensed professional and / or certified pupil personnel service provider, as appropriate, for more targeted supports.

There is a need to raise achievement by using prior attainment data to set challenging targets to allow pupils to make outstanding progress

Closing the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and others is the biggest challenge faced by our generation of teachers and school leaders.

Supported by Oxford city council, this new free school will provide 880 pupils with a strong academic curriculum in a supportive and challenging environment.

Ofsted said the curriculum at the Christian secondary school, which currently has 94 pupils in Years 7 and 8, was «too narrow» and many pupils held prejudiced views of others which were not challenged by staff.

The 2017 - 18 Section 99k - Cybersecurity Competition Event Grant is made available to public school districts that provide pupils in grades 6 - 12 with expanded opportunities to improve computer science skills by participating in cybersecurity competitive events hosted by Mertit Network, Incorporated, known as Michigan High School Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as Cyberpatriot.

The auditors found that while the teaching workforce has grown as a whole, secondary schools face «significant challenges» to keep pace with rising pupil numbers, which are expected to increase by a fifth in the next eight years.

The Sun Ready Challenge app is a fun and interactive app which encourages pupils to get active by carrying out tasks and challenges across the playground.

The challenge facing schools now is to evaluate and reflect on their approaches to this issue (supported by regularly and systematically collected data), and to put in place effective evidence - based interventions that support and protect all pupils from the harmful effects of bullying.

This programme aims to empower young people to drive their ambitions and fulfil their potential regardless of their socio - economic background and will give 260 pupils from Teach First schools the opportunity to challenge themselves by taking part in Prudential's RideLondon cycling event in July.

Dixons, in Bradford, faced a challenging time after it hit national headlines when a teacher was stabbed by a pupil, and earlier this month when its founder, former financial director and a former teacher were all found guilty of defrauding the Department for Education out of # 150,000.

Since the 2008 - 09 school year, the state has provided additional funding for small, rural districts outside of their revenue limits through sparsity aid, as a way to lessen certain challenges experienced by rural districts with both a small pupil membership and a sparsely populated area.

The inspectors said some pupils held prejudiced views of other faiths which were not being challenged by the school.

We are campaigning on high stakes testing, so that pupils learn less by rote, and more by considering problems and challenges in real life situations — where they are required, also, to develop the skills that employers are crying out for — speaking and listening well; collaborating with each other well; using IT.

Julie Swan (pictured), executive director for general qualifications at Ofqual, said that lifting the ban on individual pupils appealing directly to exam boards «might be helpful for students who request a challenge» but are advised against by the school.

«The schools highlighted in the report are also characterised by the high expectations which they place on pupils, and how those pupils rise to the challenge - achieving in areas of relatively high deprivation.»

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

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Developed in collaboration with school management information specialists Pupil Asset, Compass is the latest in a suite of online resources being developed by EdisonLearning to provide school leaders and teachers with the essential resources they need to meet the challenge of sustainable school improvement in this time of change and uncertainty.

For example, teachers will learn that they might want to encourage mind - wandering to help pupils tackle challenging work, according to the insights revealed by recent research.

Feedback forms provided by class teachers to the CLF co-ordinator show that pupils are praising and supporting each other, as well as building their learning resilience through pushing themselves to persevere when work is challenging.

In this essay author Marguerite Roza challenges the assumption that rural districts are less productive than their urban or suburban peers by discussing rural districts can «beat the odds» by increasing student results without increasing per - pupil expenditures.

Conceived by Michael Gove, the reforms were designed to make the exams more challenging and to allow greater differentiation between the highest attaining pupils.

Focusing particularly on the schools with the highest numbers of disadvantaged pupils and greatest literacy challenges, we will spend # 8m directly funding both programmes that have already been evaluated by the EEF with good results and support disciplined innovations that show promise.

The activity set off by the contest has enabled Schnur's network to press as never before its frontal challenge to the teachers» unions: they argue that a country that spends more per pupil than any other but whose student performance ranks in the bottom third among developed nations isn't failing its children for lack of resources but for lack of trained, motivated, accountable talent at the front of the class.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

Assisted in advising on the validity of debentures challenged by creditors in the context of an administration (as a pupil)