Sentences with phrase «extra pupils»

Many councils are looking at innovative solutions to provide extra pupil places, with some opening new primaries in police stations and church halls, and one school opening a playground on a roof top.

Heads say they are facing big practical pressures in the next five years - hundreds of thousands of extra pupils needing places, fears of a shortage of teachers and head teachers, and worries about over-stretched budgets.

Council leaders are warning that primary schools in England could be pushed to breaking point by the cost of creating places for extra pupils.

The two form entry Shortstown primary school will replace the current one form entry Shortstown lower school and will accommodate extra pupils from the increase in housing development in the local area.

With schools up and down the country under pressure to provide extra pupil places, Jackie Maginnis from the MPBA explores how modular buildings can be the solution that the sector is searching for

The city is set to see a 13 per cent increase in its primary and secondary population, with 22,957 extra pupils by 2020, the largest numerical increase in the country.

Education secretary Justine Greening has detailed how # 2.4 million will be spent on improving school buildings and creating extra pupil places

At The Key, we see concerns over school places reflected in the questions school leaders ask us — such as if and when a school must accept certain pupils, and when a local authority's direction to accept extra pupils can be challenged.

In the event that either school is oversubscribed against its planned admission number for 2018, we will consider voluntarily admitting extra pupils to ensure that no one is disadvantaged by the distance criteria of the current academies» admissions policies.

The Department for Education says school funding is higher than ever before - more than # 40bn for 2016 - 17 and rising with extra pupil numbers to # 42bn next year.

In February, education secretary Damian Hinds suggested grammar schools would be able to expand and take on extra pupils as soon as 2020.

The cost of creating places for the 880,000 extra pupils expected in England by 2023 could push schools to breaking point, council leaders warn.

The number of extra pupils is higher than the increases for the entire North East of England (21,124 pupils).

There have been many different local proposals to finding enough space for extra pupils - including temporary classrooms, converting empty shops, developing split - site schools and in Barking there was a suggestion for pupils using a building in different shifts.

Through the appeals process, parents need to show the negative impact of the child not getting a place at that school outweighs the negative impact of the school having to take an extra pupil

County councils, often with more pupils than urban authorities, also face big increases - Lancashire is forecasting demand to rise by 13,000, Hampshire by 11,000 and Kent is expecting to need places for more than 9,000 extra pupils.

The National Foundation for Educational Research published a recent analysis of the teacher shortage, showing that there were more teachers than ever before, and that drop - our rates were not unusually high - but the level of recruitment was still not keeping up with the soaring number of extra pupils.

The extra pupil intake is welcome news to Silverstone as other UTCs face a string of financial troubles, mainly because of low pupil numbers.

These extra pupils previously attained lower grades, so you would expect more of them to get lower grades at GCSE.

Sutton council chief executive Niall Bolger said his council had spent # 7m on accommodating the extra pupils its schools would admit in September.

The marginal cost of an extra pupil may be very small but the cost of a whole class is considerable.

«The PAC is correct in its analysis that excessive workload and inadequate pay is failing to attract, and driving teachers from, the profession at a time when school rolls will rise by over half a million extra pupils.

Council leaders warn that primary schools in England could be pushed to breaking point by the cost of creating places for extra pupils.