Sentences with phrase «grammar schools provide»

My right hon. Friend is speaking powerfully about the opportunities that grammar schools provide to children from very ordinary backgrounds.

He welcomed the idea that grammar schools provide test preparation classes to all pupils, but said it was impossible to design a written test that was not amenable to coaching.

«We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, which is why we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, and we want more pupils from lower - income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

Boys from The Manchester Grammar School provide support to pupils at St Richard's Primary School in their maths lessons.

The Manchester Grammar School provides lab space and equipment for training and meetings of The Manchester Beekeepers.

A Department for Education spokesperson said grammar schools provided «a good education for their disadvantaged pupils», adding: «we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that».

Not exact matches

The system was called the «tripartite system», because it also provided for a third type of school, the technical school, but few were ever established, and the system was widely regarded as being bipartite, with the best going to grammar schools and the rest going to the secondary moderns.

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.

He added that Mr Willetts» argument that grammar schools impeded social mobility «undermines» the schools in his constituency and he «must now help to provide the evidence that those schools need to defend themselves».

Throughout the grammar schools debate there has been an underlying suspicion from many that the Eton - educated Tory leader is denying others the kind of elite education that grammar schools traditionally provided poorer parents.

«This role has become a key function in most educational establishments, providing the communications link between the academic provision and the underpinning services,» says Simon Lymn, facilities manager for the Royal Grammar School Newcastle and chair of the Asset Skills Technical Advisory Group.

While grammar schools, teacher workload and the pupil funding have dominated education headlines in recent months, the ongoing challenges in teacher recruitment and retention continue to provide difficulties for schools.

Grammar schools in Kent have been encouraged to provide up to 700 more places for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

While grammar schools, teacher workload and funding have dominated education headlines in recent months, the ongoing challenges in teacher recruitment and retention continue to provide difficulties for schools, writes Richard Sagar from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation

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.

It provide students with an opportunity for research and writing and to integrate the vocabulary, grammar, and culture concepts previously acquired: • People, places, and lessons in school • Subject pronouns • Verb ser in present tense • Use of pronouns with school - related nouns and other verb forms • México: cultural fusion, Spain and Native Americans, and Mestizo culture Students and their teacher will watch the Spanish version of the vocabulary and grammar video together.

This lesson bundle focuses on: Vocabulary: greetings, family, friends, home and school, travel and nature, and history and communities Grammar: number and gender, articles, pronouns, punctuation, «Ser vs. Estar,» regular verbs in present and preterite, possession, and time Culture: independence of countries on the American continent; culture of the Spanish - speaking world, globally and in the US; and historical figures * We have provided the videos embedded within the lesson PDF and also separately in -LRB-.

It provide students with an opportunity to integrate the vocabulary, grammar, and culture concepts previously acquired: • People, places, and lessons in school • Subject pronouns • Verb ser in present tense • Use of pronouns with school - related nouns and other verb forms • México: cultural fusion, Spain and Native Americans, and Mestizo culture Students and their teacher will watch the Spanish version of the vocabulary and grammar video together.

The report reads: «There is no evidence that reforming school structures, either by continuing the roll out of the academies programme or by introducing new grammar schools, by itself will provide an answer to England's entrenched social mobility problem.

So I welcome the government's commitment to providing funding for new grammar schools, particularly for people who, like me, come from poorer backgrounds.

It was announced on Wednesday, 8 March, that a transport scheme will come into place to provide disadvantaged pupils with free transport to grammar schools.

So in addition to funding new grammar schools, government needs to commit to making sure that there are new AP Free Schools that can provide appropriate educational opportunities for those schools, government needs to commit to making sure that there are new AP Free Schools that can provide appropriate educational opportunities for those Schools that can provide appropriate educational opportunities for those pupils.

The parallel learning model suggests that offering both single - sex and co-educational schooling provides the best of both worlds, writes Bradley Fry, Principal of Tintern Grammar.

Bradley Fry is Principal of Tintern Grammar, a leading independent school based in East Victoria that provides enriched education to students of all ages, from earlylearning to senior school.

[Content provided by Committee for Children] We can teach middle schoolers about math, grammar, and history.

The government says that providing more grammar school places would give extra opportunities for poorer pupils.

Commenting on the Education Select Committee's report on the Government's case for creating new grammar schools, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «The Government has failed to provide evidence that more selection in schools will improve education for all children and not harm the majority.

This partnership between The Manchester Grammar School and St Mary's RC Primary School aims to support Year 3 pupils at St Mary's in their sports lessons by providing extra coaching.

The research, which is published with the Sutton Trust's response to the government's consultation on providing more good school places, raises serious concerns about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility.

Among the other recommendations, which are due to go before the full council in July, are suggestions that grammar schools help pupils with the cost of uniforms, school trips and provide more links with state primary schools.

The rush to free schools and grammars will not see them provide an answer.

Yet despite the DfE report stating that the PISA data «provided little support» to arguments that academic selection boost the progress of the most disadvantaged pupils, ministers said the PISA results support plans for more grammar schools.

The Grammar School at Leeds provides use of their sporting facilities for Seacroft Grange Primary to use for their annual summer sports day.

GL Assessment, which delivered the 11 - plus test for all Buckinghamshire grammar schools before 2013, will replace the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) in providing selective school entrance exams for the area from 2018.

For school leaders watching the Budget, the anger will be two-fold: nothing is being provided for existing schools, despite the evident pressures they are under; but the government can find resources for new free schools to deliver its grammar plans.

Former religious studies teacher Mr Pugh, who went to Prescot Grammar School and Maidstone Grammar School before studying philosophy at Durham University, will provide the party's opposition to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

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Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «The Government has failed to provide any evidence that grammar schools are the solution to improve the education for the majority of children.

The best Classics teachers in independent school demonstrate to their students the influence of classical cultures on today's world, from the building blocks the languages provided for modern grammar to the cognates that inform the vocabulary of English and the Romance languages.

Five years later, the legislators issued a corrective in the form of the Old Deluder Satan Law: «It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures,» the law intoned, «it is therefore ordered... that everie Township [of 100 households or more] in this Jurisdiction» be required to provide a trained teacher and a grammar school, at taxpayer expense.

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.»

Ministers have provided no evidence of how extra grammar schools will increase the social mobility of our young people — an issue more pronounced in the midlands and the north, as Craig Whittaker rightly pointed out.

What academies and grammar schools are doing so well is making sure that their teachers provide excellent teaching so that all the children who go to those schools can truly succeed.

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