Sentences with phrase «child on free school meals»

And it says that academies take a higher proportion of children on free school meals than the national average.

Latest figures show a 31 % gap in GCSE performance between children on free school meals and their peers, although this gap has narrowed slightly.

He goes on and on about the pupil premium, when schools always did get extra money for children on free school meals.

For the first time, it will include a specific measure of how well children on free school meals are doing.

«Liberal Democrats in England have increased funding to # 1,300 per child on free schools meals.

Figures show that 48 per cent of children on free school meals achieved at least five or more A * - C grades in their GCSEs in 2013, compared to just 22 per cent in 2002.

Their research found that, in 2002, 22 per cent of children on free school meals in London gained five or more A * - C GCSEs, including English and Maths.

Results of national tests known as Sats taken by 10 and 11 - year - olds in England show that children on free school meals do less well than their classmates, and the pattern continues to GCSE level.

Milburn, a former Labour cabinet minister, also criticised the failure of some local authorities — Portsmouth and Bracknell Forest — to send a single child on free school meals to top universities.

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle, who is leading the inquiry, said: «We want to really focus on why such a low proportion of children on free school meals attend grammar schools and what can be done to cut down the barriers.

Since the pupil premium is simply additional funding for some schools, and is not necessarily used for resources targeted specifically at children on free school meals, it amounted to additional income of at best about # 100 per pupil initially, rising to # 200 by 2014 - 15 (again at 2009 prices).

They often provide a good quality education for those lucky enough to attend them, but they take fewer children on free school meals than schools with mixed abilities - 12.6 per cent of pupils at the highest performing non-selective schools claim free school meals; at grammar schools this is just 2.4 per cent.

New research by the Social Mobility Commission has uncovered a progression gap between choices made by children on free school meals and their more affluent peers which can not be explained by their results at school or where they live.

The research also failed to find a «significant positive impact» on social mobility, and in fact found that the gap between the proportion of children on free school meals attaining five A * to C GCSEs including English and maths and all other children was actually wider in selective areas (34.1 per cent) than in non-selective areas (27.8 per cent).

Now graduates who do most of their training in a school with many children on free school meals will receive up to 25 % extra in bursary payments, up to # 5,000.

The «pupil premium plus» money, which schools get to help previously looked - after children, ought to be «ring - fenced» so it's not lumped in with pupil premium money for children on free school meals, she said.

The gap between children on free school meals (FSM) and all other children is wider in selective areas (34.1 per cent) than in non-selective areas (27.8 per cent).

The party has also pledged to increase the Early Years Pupil Premium to reach # 1000 per child on free school meals.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

Earlier research by the charity said the proportion of children on free school meals in top comprehensives was far below the national average.

Milburn, a former Labour cabinet minister, also criticised the failure of some local authorities — Portsmouth and Bracknell Forest — to send a single child on free school meals to top universities.

«We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't.

Our flagship policy, the Welsh Pupil Premium, ensures all children on free school meals across Wales get the extra support they need no matter where they live.

This protects per pupil funding levels and includes the new pupil premium, which provides an extra # 488 for every child on free school meals and which will rise over the next three years,» a Department of Education spokesperson said.

This year they further enhanced that money, meaning that schools will receive  # 918 per child on free school meals.

But, interestingly, delegates voted to take out a line saying they welcomed «the new powers for academies to prioritise admissions to children on free school meals».

The interviews given by leading Lib Dem MPs over the weekend suggest that their narrative at the next election will go something like this: «We have protected the poorest and most deserving by raising the personal tax allowance, providing the biggest ever increase in the state pension, and giving schools a «pupil premium» - more money for every child on free school meals.

However, research by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the charity Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows that primary schools with more than 40 per cent of children on free school meals will on average lose # 473 per pupil.

He also referenced the fact that the attainment gap at GCSE level in Hackney between children on free school meals and those who are not is 14.6 per cent, compared to a 34 per cent gap in Kent, which operates a selective system.

Ms Powell, a former shadow education secretary, said: «Grammar schools in London have a shameful record of giving opportunities to children on free school meals.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «Grammar schools have a track record of closing the attainment gap between children on free school meals and their better - off classmates and 99 % of grammar schools are rated good or outstanding.

«Pupils typically travel three times as far to attend selective schools, so we will extend free school transport to include all children on free school meals who attend a selective school.

Just 28 schools — we've called them «the golden 28» — out of more than 16,000 met our ambitious standards that included getting every child on free school meals (FSMs) to achieve at least two levels of progress in reading, maths and writing.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said that grammar schools have a «track record of closing the attainment gap to almost zero between children on free school meals and their better off classmates».

But in secondary schools, the attainment gap between children on free school meals (FSM) and their better - off peers has refused to budge in a decade.

«Labour's Academies were focused on transforming under - performing schools, often in disadvantaged areas, and had a higher proportion of children on free school meals than the national average.

Funds for SEND pupils also ought to be ring - fenced and monitored, as with the pupil premium for children on free school meals, he said.

She said: «We need to look at, for example, should children on free school meals be able to enter grammar schools if they have lower than the average [test score] that is required in Kent?

«These results also show an unacceptable attainment gap between local authorities where we know there are a high proportion of children on free school meals, and richer areas.

The government's pupil premium scheme, which gives more money to schools for each child on free school meals, should also be more focused on aiding white working class children, he added.

Children on free school meals and those with special educational needs continue to perform least well.

Greening will welcome the «many grammar schools» which are «now changing their admissions code to give a priority of places» to children on free school meals and will call for others to follow their example.

The Conservative Party promised in its manifesto at last year's general election to continue funding the Pupil Premium, an additional top - up fund for children on free school meals.

Schools - 51 % of London children on free school meals achieve A * to C in English and maths GCSE compared to an average of 36 % of children on free school meals in all other English regions: in the best place (Westminster), 63 % get good English and maths GCSEs whereas in the worst (Isle of Wight), only 27 % do

Mr Laws told delegates it was «quite literally intolerable» that in some schools and certain areas of the country almost eight in 10 children on free school meals - a key measure of poverty - failed to get five good GCSEs, including maths and English.

It clearly sets out that the gap between children on free school meals and all other children is actually wider in wholly - selective areas than in nonselective.