Sentences with phrase «deprived backgrounds»

Children from highly deprived backgrounds see little intrinsic value in possessions and focusing on material rewards or the loss thereof does little to foster attachment and trust.

Research found the Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme - had minimal impact on families from deprived backgrounds in Glasgow and may even have increased social inequality because of the high drop - out rate.

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Travers Smith are the latest firms to sign up to specialist recruitment company Rare's Discuss programme aimed at encouraging top students from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds to work in law.

During her time as a social worker, she worked with children from deprived backgrounds and discovered the sorts of stories that grasped their imaginations.

I am arguing that grammar schools should do outreach, like those in the King Edward VI group, and ensure that the figure increases from 3 % so that children from deprived backgrounds can get in and genuinely do well, which is not happening as much as it should.

«A diverse early - years workforce can help children, especially those from deprived backgrounds, to visualise their futures and fulfil their educational potential.

The report found that the higher the number of children from deprived backgrounds in a school, the worse the performance of all learners.

«We agree with Estyn, however, that schools must work with others to effectively support pupils from deprived backgrounds, and that there needs to be more training for school leaders in this area.

This included the government's flagship pupil premium - which aims to target extra funds at schools taking pupils from deprived backgrounds, she said.

However, Labour's Iain Gray used his speech to attack the attainment fund as «inadequate», instead proposing a «fair start fund» which would allocate # 1,000 to primary school pupils from deprived backgrounds.

The poor attainment of pupils from deprived backgrounds has complex reasons.

Studies indicate that by their fifth birthday many of the highest early achievers from deprived backgrounds have been overtaken by lower achieving children from advantaged backgrounds.

The important vocabulary words are the Tier 1 & Tier 2 words that are in common usage (often ESL students or students from language deprived backgrounds need exposure here) and the academic and content vocabulary that are the keywords to learning.

Children from the least and most deprived backgrounds are out there — there's no fancy cool kit, or uncool kit, there's no unwashed or forgotten kit, there's no time spent changing.

A diverse Early Years workforce can help children, especially those from deprived backgrounds, to visualise their futures and fulfil their educational potential.

We're not really sure why that is the case, it may well just be because people who come from deprived backgrounds tend to have a lower baseline in terms of academic performance and therefore it's sort of easier to raise that.

«SATs can be extremely important for giving a clear indication of the particular support that some children may require and testing can ensure that we do not fail those children from poorer and deprived backgrounds»

Furthermore, The NUS student's Union has raised fears that apprentices from the most deprived backgrounds are being denied thousands of pounds of financial support.

The Times has reported that reforms will be announced next month which will make it compulsory for grammars to up their intake of children from deprived backgrounds.

Daniel Notterman from Penn State University in University Park and colleagues found the effect in a group of 40 9 - year - old boys, half of whom were from extremely deprived backgrounds and half from privileged ones.

The EMA was a lifeline for young people from deprived backgrounds who wished to stay in education and training after the age of 16.

They agree on the need to target educational resources on pupils from deprived backgrounds, and have also agreed to pass a freedom, or great reform, bill that will scrap ID cards and the next generation of biometric passports.

The government hopes that changing the system will help get more people from more deprived backgrounds into Britain's top universities, many of which are still taking a disproportionate number of students from the private sector.

Mr Allen published his interim report in January, when he argued that children from deprived backgrounds stand a much better chance of doing better for their own children if they receive intensive development in their early years.

Aled Roberts claimed the news as a vindication of his party's decision to prioritise the Pupil Deprivation Grant (PDG) in budget negotiations with the Welsh Government, a policy that targets resources at pupils from deprived backgrounds to improve their attainment.

In Laws» case he was a personal friend and ally of Clegg and when recalled to the colours used his twin ministerial responsibilities to exercise influence and change — at education opportunity for children from deprived backgrounds and at the Cabinet office, effectively a «County» member of the Quad — Cameron, Clegg, Osborne and Alexander — along with the cerebral Oliver Letwin.

«The education policies of the previous Coalition Government, continued by this one, premised on extensive and excessive autonomy for schools and the obsessive pursuit of deregulation, have rapidly increased covert selection, often targeted at pupils from materially deprived backgrounds.

Schools have used pupil premium funding, available to children from deprived backgrounds who are on free school meals, to extend breakfast clubs.

Prostitutes tend to enter the job young and to come from deprived backgrounds.

Today is all about demonstrating that we're actually doing that, that while we have a debate across our nation about Europe, we're also getting on with delivering what we were elected on a year ago - a manifesto committed to improving life chances to those from deprived backgrounds.»

«But we're also getting on with governing the country, setting out an agenda to deliver a better security for our economy, better security for our nation and an agenda that is about driving life chances for people from deprived backgrounds.

However, the Liberal Democrats said the scheme relied on gifted and talent pupils from deprived backgrounds being identified in the first place.

«If more children from deprived backgrounds aren't identified in the first placed, today's announcement will make little difference.»

Much of his book concerns ways in which children from socially deprived backgrounds can be encouraged to «build» character traits that will help them overcome their disadvantage.

On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.

It says: «We believe that this can restrict opportunities for all children to experience positive male role models and can prevent some children, especially those from deprived backgrounds, from fulfilling their educational potential.»

Given that a straight A student will often lose a place every time a student without straight As from a deprived background is offered one, due consideration should be given to the selection mechanism underpinning these choices.

SYNOPSIS: The true story of Tonya Harding, who was the world's best female figure skater despite a deprived background.

Our brief was to explore how the equipment could impact upon pupils from an incredibly deprived background.

Child A comes from a very deprived background and is the middle child of three.

What we found was that the delay in the school start time did in fact increase academic performance in the GCSE examinations and that this increase was more pronounced in individuals who come from a deprived background — who have a lower socioeconomic status.

The government's reforms will offer new and existing grammar schools the choice between admitting more pupils from a deprived background, setting up free schools or sponsoring underperforming academies.

Jerome Myers (1867 - 1940) Born in Virginia to a poor family, his deprived background led him to paint New York's slums, though in a romanticized way rather than in the politically motivated way of the Socialist Realists.

Not exact matches

I have a science background but I'm sleep deprived and emotionally involved.

As it currently stands, pupils from deprived economic backgrounds have lower levels of attainment than their wealthier counterparts.

As we have previously stated there should not be a «minimum level of academic qualification'to allow one to join the Police Service, this will inevitably disadvantage those from socially deprived areas and would also potentially disadvantage some from minority and ethnic backgrounds.

Against this background, three arguments can be made against the Strathclyde proposal to deprive the House of Lords of any veto power in respect of statutory instruments.

Coming from a decidedly arts background myself, I feel deprived.

«The collaborative programme will see the University of Derby and our partners work together to deliver outreach activities to students from a widening participation background in 63 ward areas across the two counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, covering areas in and near some of the most deprived local authorities nationally.

Holyport will be England's first boarding Free School and aims to offer a traditional education to children from a variety of backgrounds, particularly the most deprived.