Sentences with phrase «for pupils eligible for free school meals»

However the improvement was small for pupils eligible for free school meals between 60 per cent and 90 per cent of the time.

That's why, when I worked for Tony Blair, I helped introduce a new right of access — clauses 95 and 96 of the guidance — for pupils eligible for free school meals to free travel to a choice of three schools rather than the one designated by the local authority.

This revealed a positive effect for pupils eligible for free school meals.

The programme was found to have a differential effect for pupils eligible for free school meals compared to their peers.

GCSE results, including for pupils eligible for free school meals and those with special educational needs, improved at a faster rate 2009 - 2011 compared with the results in similar schools.

GCSE results, including for pupils eligible for free school meals and those with special educational needs, improved at a faster rate in 2009 - 2011 compared with the results in similar schools.

While this is politically useful at a time of national austerity, it also raises questions about why the government is introducing the pupil premium - extra funding to schools for each pupil eligible for free school meals.

It gives additional funds of between # 935 and # 1,320 for every pupil eligible for free school meals, with additional grants for care leavers.

Not exact matches

In 2011 - 12, the Pupil Premium will be allocated to those pupils eligible for free school meals.

The proportions of pupils eligible for free school meals and with special educational needs are both higher than the national average.

View example registration forms for capturing data on existing free school meal eligible pupils, from different local authorities which have already introduced universal free school meals for primary pupils: Southwark Islington Newham Other related case studies: Brighton & Hove

View example registration forms for capturing data on existing free school meal eligible pupils, from different local authorities which have already introduced universal free school meals for primary pupils:

The Department for Education is inviting tenders to the value of # 17.4 million for services to support school readiness to provide school lunches to all infant pupils in England from September 2014 (# 9.6 m); to kick start increased take up in at least 2000 junior and secondary schools where take - up of school lunches is low (# 4.8 m); and to set up breakfast clubs in at least 500 schools where over 35 % of pupils are eligible for free school meals and there is no existing breakfast provision (# 3m).

Non-religious comprehensives admit 11 % more pupils eligible for free school meals than expected, Jewish secondaries 61 % fewer.

In place since 2012, the PDG will be worth # 1,150 per pupil eligible for free school meals in 2016/17.

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».

In particular, he has pointed to the impact of the pupil premium, which was introduced in April 2011, and provides additional funding to schools for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals.

At present schools can receive # 488 for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, under a measure introduced by the coalition government last year.

Ms Teather is set to announce that all those eligible for free school meals within the last six months will also be covered by the premium, benefiting a further 500,000 pupils.

In Wales a similar scheme, created by the Welsh Liberal Democrats and known as the Pupil Deprivation Grant is worth # 918 for each child over the age of five eligible for free school meals.

The PDG provides additional funding to schools based on the number of pupils on eligible for Free School Meals (e-FSM) and also for those children who are looked after (LAC).

Alan Milburn, a former Labour UK cabinet minister, recently published a report showing that pupils eligible for free school meals in England are 50 % more likely to obtain five good GCSEs than their counterparts in Wales.

At the age of 11, the gap was 16.8 % but rose to 26.2 % at 16 when exam results of pupils eligible for free school meals compared with those not eligible.

Targeted resources bode well for the «pupil premium» policy, which provides additional resources for disadvantaged pupils who are eligible for free school meals.

New, highly significant research carried out by the Guardian and published today for the first time has revealed the huge extent to which English «faith» schools exclude pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM).

Jenny Whittle, Conservative councillor and committee chair, has said that figures are improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over three per cent, but admitted she would like to see that figure doubled.

Schools» eligibility for a bursary will be decided based on the number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals or pupil premium.

The programme builds on evidence that footballers can influence the way young people view reading, particularly among boys and pupils eligible for free school meals.

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.

Williams continued: «We have always said that the PDG is there to support all pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals, not just those that are struggling academically.

Currently only around 1,200 pupils on Free School Meals go on to Russell Group universities each year, just 1.5 % of the 80,000 pupils eligible each year for Free School Meals in secondary schools.

Encouragingly, there are signs that these interventions disproportionality benefit low attaining and pupils eligible for Free School Meals, and so could be effective approaches to «narrow the gap».

The latest data shows that 59 per cent of pupils who are eligible for free school meals achieved the expected standard in maths by the end of primary school, compared to over three - quarters (78 per cent) of all other pupils.

The results found that grammar schools only take in a small number of pupils who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals.

Plans to provide free transport to pupils eligible for free school meals, which was announced in the Spring Budget, could cost up to # 5,000 per pup

Many of the pupils who fall behind do come from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, although they are not technically eligible for free school meals or the pupil premium.

The poorest fifth schools, as defined by the number of pupils eligible for free school meals, spent on average 31 per cent more per pupil than the richest fifth.

The EPI's analysis used data from from inspections that took place from 2005/06 to 2014/15 and found that secondary schools with up to five per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) are over three times as likely to be rated «outstanding» as schools with at least 23 per cent FSM (48 per cent compared with 14 per cent).

Plans to provide free transport to pupils eligible for free school meals, which was announced in the Spring Budget, could cost up to # 5,000 per pupil, a councillor has warned.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

Research by the Sutton Trust in 2014 showed that pupils eligible for free school meals who scored in the top 10 per cent nationally at the end of primary school were significantly less likely to be entered for the EBacc, compared to their wealthier peers who achieved the same level aged 11.

The issues it highlighted included the labelling of «working class boys», as the DfE does not collect information on pupils» socio - economic status and the statistics quoted were actually about white make students who were eligible for free school meals in year 11.

Only 21 % of the 93.5 % of students in the UK not at private school receive tuition, and within these students are the staggeringly large 15 % of secondary school pupils in the UK who are eligible for Free School school receive tuition, and within these students are the staggeringly large 15 % of secondary school pupils in the UK who are eligible for Free School school pupils in the UK who are eligible for Free School School Meals.

The attainment gaps between pupils eligible for free school meals and their classmates are not only wider at Key Stages 2 and 4 than those found nationally, but they widen as pupils move through their secondary education.»

The Country Trust raises funds to ensure that farm visits are offered at no charge to schools with a higher than average percentage of children eligible for Free School Meals (and therefore Pupil Premium).

Senior Labour MP Lucy Powell published figures showing the capital had the biggest gap between the number of pupils at grammars eligible for free school meals compared with the figure for the broader school population.

To look at this difference more closely, additional, separate analyses were conducted on pupils eligible for free school meals and their peers.

«We have always said that the PDG is there to support all pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals, not just those that are struggling academically.

The programme appeared to have a different impact on pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals compared to their peers.

Pupils eligible for free school meals made more progress in participating schools than in comparison schools.