Sentences with phrase «children at grammar schools»

«That's why the proportion of disadvantaged children at grammar schools is extremely low, just 2.6 per cent of kids on free school meals,» Powell said.

Bexley said it had the second - highest rate in the city of children at grammar schools eligible for free school meals — three per cent — behind Redbridge.

Not exact matches

A criticism regularly levelled at grammar schools is the fact that many children develop later but find themselves excluded from an academic education that might have suited them.

This is about ensuring that future generations of children, unlike me, incidentally, who was not taught grammar at primary school...

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

Grammar schools are state secondary schools, which select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the «11 Plus».

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgSchools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

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.

For every one child that might successfully make it through a grammar school and go on to university there will be many more left behind at the local secondary believing they weren't good enough.

Hosted by Alicia Blanco - Bayo, pre-school manager at Kirkham Grammar School, the seminar will also look at how play can be differentiated, how to plan for differentiated play, and how to orientate children so that they can initiate play that had previously been differentiated.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

«Those who hold up grammar schools as the gold standard are less keen to talk about what happens to those children who, at the age of 11, are told they are not good enough.

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

While 23 per cent of people polled believed that grammar schools should be forced to accept children of all abilities, 35 per cent said they believed that grammars improve social mobility, with only 19 per cent thinking they damage social mobility and a further 27 per cent saying they make no difference at all.

Theresa May wants to remove the ban on new selective institutions, and Justine Greening, the education secretary, announced at the weekend that she will build a system that gives «every child» a chance to attend a grammar school.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

Explaining her support from grammar schools, Tilley added: «When you look around at children they are not all equal, they are different.

She added: «What a damning verdict of our country if we went back to an era where we told four in every five children at the age of 11 that there was a cap on their potential and it was only the grammar school kids who could get far.»

Referencing his own experience as a head teacher at a successful comprehensive, the Ofsted Chief he wouldn't have had the same success if there had been a nearby grammar: «If you have grammar schools, you take away the most able children from the all - ability comprehensive set - up.

Grammar schools are controversial as they select all their pupils on the basis of ability tests, known as the 11 - plus, which children take at the age of 10 or 11.

Nick Gibb: Fine, well this isn't about me, this is about ensuring that future generations of children - unlike me incidentally, who was not taught grammar at primary school...

The Manchester Grammar School and The Seashell Trust work together in a partnership that sees volunteers from MGS help children with communications difficulties at the Trust.

Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the «11 - plus».

The aim is for pupils from The Manchester Grammar School to support children from Reception to Year 6 at Medlock Primary School with their reading and maths skills.

Disadvantaged white British children enter grammar school at the lowest rate of any major ethnic group.

«If you look at the attainment within grammar schools, poorer children do better in grammar schools than they do in other schools,» said Mrs May.

A Wiltshire academy that started a «grammar stream», giving a small group of children access to specialist teachers and lectures at a nearby private school, will continue the project for at least another year and may expand the model.

Kent councillors want grammar schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds at the expense of children from outside the county

If you look at opinion polls what you find is that older voters like it, and particularly older voters who remember grammar schools in the old way like it, but parents who actually have to make invidious choices about where to send their children hate it.»

Should we look at creating a bursary scheme which offsets costs for children entering grammar school - uniform costs for example.

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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?

Parents with children in selective education areas are at parliament tonight to discuss with MPs their personal experiences of the «damage caused» by grammar schools.

But could grammars break the link between family background and how well children achieve at school?

In exchange for a parent's agreement not to enroll their special needs student in a public or charter school, the state agrees to make quarterly deposits into an educational savings account in an amount slightly less than the public school would have received to educate the child.14 Parents are required to «provide an education for the qualified student in at least the subjects of reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science.»

Instead of throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools, more children would benefit if the Government funded all state schools sufficiently, argues the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

Those children, at the top of those schools, do not have to compete with the children at the grammar, and they go on to compete very successfully and get good places at elite universities.

Under the proposals, grammar schools will be encouraged to work with nearby primary schools to improve access for poorer pupils and be more flexible about admissions, allowing children to join or leave at 14 or 16.

Children in grammars on free school meals are twice as likely to get five good GCSE grades, and so twice as likely to secure a place at and to attend one of the top Russell Group universities, as their wealthier peers who attend comprehensives.

In Kent, an increasing number of children who have received the pupil premium are attending grammar schools, so Kent is working at widening access.

Councillor Brigid Jones, cabinet member for schools at Birmingham City Council, said that the policy of grammar schools «bending their admissions criteria» to allow more disadvantaged children showed the «absolute fallacy in the 11 - plus system».

Do you have stats for a comparison between performances of poor children at comprehensives in fully comprehensive areas, and poor children at «non-selective» schools in areas where there is 11 - plus and grammars, e.g. Kent?

He said grammar schools should look again at their admissions policies and ensure they were making provision for children from disadvantaged areas or with special needs, even if that means altering the entrance requirements, and do more outreach work in deprived areas.

On the Radio 4 Today programme this morning Justine Greening tied herself up in knots trying to argue that grammar schools represented increased choice, an argument which falls apart when you consider one fundamental, and uncomfortable truth, which is that, for those children who fail the 11 +, there is little or no choice at all.

We are currently hearing more horrific details of the child abuse that went on for decades at the Knox Grammar School, and the indifference of the former head master, who did little or nothing when these events were made known to him.

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