Sentences with phrase «first year pupils»

This unit assessment is intended as a first unit assessment for first year pupils.

In the first year a pupil receives a special needs voucher, the private school would receive $ 12,000 from the public school district.

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Lawyers claimed the pupils were initially barred from the school after failing to achieve B grades in exams during their first year of sixth form.

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

A record number of Scottish pupils are receiving their exam results today, although pass rates for Highers have fallen for the first time in four years.

Pupils who were in the first year of primary school in May 1997 finished their GCSEs last summer.

During First Minister's Questions this afternoon, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, called on the Welsh Labour Government to consider introducing free school meals for all year one and year two primary pupils as has been announced in England by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

The shadow education secretary was taken to task over Labour's pledge to ensure that no pupil is in a class larger than 30 children in the first three years of primary school.

«My year group has the largest number of pupil premium pupils but has less support than other year groups and this isn't the first time this has happened.

The teenager is expected to resume her education as a first - year Senior Secondary School pupil in Delta State.

96.9 % of year 6 pupils in Cornwall have been allocated their first preference secondary school for September.

When Clegg has taken up whichever international job it is that he's meant to want and Alexander is running some ghastly lobbying firm in London, no one will much remember «Alarm Clock Britain», the pupil premium (much less its origin) or any other measure that excites the true believers for a few days but they will remember their years of under - employment and unemployment, the lies about tuition fees, the first time they saw ads for private provision in the NHS and, first and foremost, that they should never trust the Liberal Democrats again.

For example, we would like to start a journal club in which experienced students volunteer to discuss scientific papers with their younger counterparts (i.e., advanced pupils and first - year students) to stimulate interest in and fascination for the world of science.

The first pupils to embark on the mathematics National Curriculum as 5 - year - olds in 1989 will not complete it until they are 16 in 2000, before moving on to further and higher education.

While, from 1975 onwards, his first Western pupils David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff were still confronted with three practice series which became progressively more difficult, he, in his last years before his death in 2009, taught six progressively more difficult practice series.

A drop in pupils achieving a C or above was predicted before the results were released, due to the new policy that requires 17 year - olds to re-sit English and Maths if they got a D or lower the first time around.

Districts are reimbursed through another funding stream for students who have left traditional district schools for charters: 100 percent of per - pupil in the first year, 25 percent for the next five years, as well as an annual per - pupil facilities cost of approximately $ 900 dollars.

Of the older pupils retaking exams, fewer than a third achieved a C or above, compared to 70 per cent of 16 year - olds taking the exams for the first time.

Mindful of the complex regulatory environment in which schools now find themselves, the REC published Putting Pupils First last year to provide guidance to schools when utilising recruitment agencies.

As she sits down with first - year Spanish teacher Andria Groover, there is no hint of tutor - pupil hierarchy.

For the first time in state history, the law sets a minimum per - pupil spending level, which will be $ 4,100 this school year.

Some EAL pupils, such as late arrivals with Pashto as a first language, score, on average, between an F and an E at GCSE in Attainment 8 having arrived into the English school system in Year 9.

Some pupils have been inspired to practise their skills at home and by the time they reach Year 6, the school is hoping club members will have the knowledge and confidence to be playground first aid monitors.

In regards to a new school, or a school teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the 2017 to 2018 academic year, funding will be based on data from the autumn 2017 school census.

Stuart Sweetman, Head of Design Technology and mentor to team 1408V said «This has been our first year taking part in the VEX Competition and although the learning curve has been steep the pupils have risen to the challenge at every set back.

Applications for secondary school places have risen for the second consecutive year, reaching 521,274, with the proportion of pupils given their first choice falling from 85 to 84 per cent.

Universities are able to accept as many students as they want for the first time this year, and it is expected that Russell Group universities will accept a record number of pupils through clearing.

Twenty years ago, Melanie Barron, then a young teacher of junior - high - school science in New York City, first encountered the kind of crisis in a pupil's life that her training as an educator had not prepared her for.

Merilee MacKay, a language arts teacher at Sagemont Virtual High School in Weston, Florida, used the program for the first time last year, and plans to continue using it with her pupils.

For the first time in decades, real per pupil spending will decline this year, forcing school districts to make painful budget choices — providing fewer services with their diminished resources.

In nearly every year over the past decade (and in every year we have asked the relevant questions), we have found much less enthusiasm for boosting per pupil expenditures and teacher salaries among those who are first told how much these items are actually costing the district.

Groundwork has been working with schools to bring environmental education to schoolchildren in a way that complements the National Curriculum for the past 30 years, and we have found that nothing brings a subject to life more than giving pupils the opportunity to experience the environment first hand.

Pupils watching will witness a re-enacted Tudor lesson, and be among the first to «step inside» the newly renovated 600 year old building, described by historian Michael Wood as «one of the most atmospheric, magical and important in the whole of Britain.»

At the conference he will explain how the system is failing the students: «We know of cases where, after re-remarks have come through, their pupils are confirmed as having exceeded the offer of their first choice university yet have nevertheless been told - inexplicably - that they no longer have a place for that year.

The $ 37 billion in the stimulus package that is intended to offset reduced state and local education revenue in 2009 will cushion what would otherwise likely have been the first significant per - pupil spending reduction in 60 years.

In the first two months of the new academic year the pupil eligibility checker identified over # 3.7 M of potential claims bringing much needed funding for schools.

According to the DfE, the activity - based assessment will enable better, fairer measures of primary school performance by capturing the progress teachers help pupils to make from the first weeks of reception all the way through to the end of year 6.

Thanks to the # 3.8 million investment from the PSBP, pupils at the Mackworth school are enjoying a new canteen and will be able to eat hot meals cooked on site for the first time in years.

Latest figures show 83.5 per cent of pupils were offered their first choice of secondary school and 94.6 per cent of pupils were offered one of their top three secondary schools last year, which follows the creation of 735,000 new school places since 2010.

The More than a Score coalition, which covers 16 teaching and early years» organisations including the NEU, the British Educational Research Association, the Association of Child Psychotherapists and parents» group Let Our Kids Be Kids, is also concerned about the idea of short tests in pupils» first few weeks at school.

When Congress zeroed out funding for Reading First — the program authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act for K - 3 pupils primarily in disadvantaged schools — it increased spending for Early Reading First, which targets 3 - and 4 - year - olds from low - income families.

Bromley head teacher Patrick Wenham has seen the difference in achievement for boys and girls first - hand during his 30 - plus years in the classroom, and believes single - sex education is a tool that can be used to improve achievement, particularly for male pupils.

This September, more than 11,500 pupils returned to school for their first term in new buildings, with 22 buildings re-opening for the start of the new academic year as a result of # 160 million of construction work from the programme.

Nonetheless, the figure was a slight improvement on last year, where 84.1 per cent of pupils got into their first choice school, compared to 84.2 per cent this year.

«The level of fluency in Mandarin achieved by these dedicated pupils after the first year demonstrates the commitment of the pupils and teachers involved in the programme.

The amount of pupils re-taking the English language GCSE has increased by nearly a third in the first year of the newly reformed exams.

The programme was introduced in September 2016 and the results from the first year show that more than 380 out of 400 pupils achieved over 80 percent in reading, writing, listening and speaking tests, which shows their quick progress and the advanced understanding of the language.

All year groups have immediate access to outside space — the ground floor to the gardens; the first floor to terraces; and the second floor to the roof — linking the pupils with the ecology of the surrounding area.