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Commenting on the data released today by the Department for Education on permanent and fixed - period exclusions of pupils during 2013 - 14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The increase in the number of pupils suspended due to assaulting adults in schools is extremely worrying.

Additionally, a study from the National Literacy Trust on the effects of ebooks on reading progress suggested that boys were keener to read ebooks than their paper counterparts, with ebooks facilitating a 25 per cent rise in the number of pupils who read daily and a 22 per cent increase in those who read for an hour or longer.

Ms Curnock Cook further voiced that a focus on universities on increasing their intakes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds «probably did not» threaten the prospects of privately - educated pupils, because falling pupil numbers meant students with «good A-levels will be in more demand than ever».

With pupil numbers on the increase and school places more contested, Jackie Maginnis, of the Modular Portable Building Association, looks at the fast capacity that modular buildings hold to construct more than just basic classrooms.

School kitchens are notoriously tight on space and as pupil numbers increase there is the added issue of an increased demand for school meals.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

Flexibility within menu cycles can help you take advantage of seasonal ingredients and special offers from suppliers, to have a creative kitchen and to reflect school activities and events on your menu to as part of your marketing to pupils to increase your lunch numbers.

He said that «huge» budget pressures on schools and colleges were leaving headteachers with «no alternative» but to cut the number of subjects offered to pupils and to increase class sizes.

His comments follow concerns from the Religious Education Council of England and Wales that a removal of short courses from the Department for Education (DfE) performance tables is «having a serious and negative impact on the number of pupils choosing to take religious studies at GCSE level, with an increasing number of schools having no pupils at all taking the subject».

Schools Week analysed new government figures on the educational outcomes of children in care for at least 12 months and found that since 2011, the number of children in care in year 3 (age 7) has increased by 15 per cent and the number in care by year 6 (age 11) has increased by 26 per cent, with much of the change due to increased pupil numbers overall.

Grammar schools - state - funded schools that select pupils on the basis of ability - are facing increasing pressure to become more socially inclusive, amid government plans to increase the number of them.

The purpose of increasing the number of pupils demonstrating proficiency in science and mathematics on the state assessment and to increase the number of pupils who are college and career ready upon high school graduation.

Schools Week understands the first tranche of funding will be based on increases in pupil numbers between 2017 - 18 and 2018 - 19, with schools actually receiving the money in 2019 - 20.

Schools» eligibility will be calculated based on increases in the number of pupils studying the subjects beyond GCSE.

More than two thirds of respondents to the DfE's consultation on the English Baccalaureate are worried that schools will be unable to maintain a broad and balanced curriculum as the number of pupils taking it increases.

The gap between official statistics and the perceptions of the profession seems vast; school leaders across the country report that they are struggling to fill vacancies with suitably qualified permanent staff, right at the time when they face increasing numbers of pupils, higher accountability standards and more demands on subject specialisms.

But the Department for Education said: «It is completely misleading to suggest there are chronic shortages of teachers or that a record number of teachers have «quit» the profession - our increased spending on supply teachers simply reflects our increased total spending in response to rising pupil numbers.

«We are delivering on the government's manifesto commitment that the amount of money following a child into school will be protected and that as the number of pupils increase, so will the amount of money in our schools.»

Based on more than 70 interviews with headteachers and academy trust chief executives, as well as a «supply projection» based on the latest pupil and workforce data, it predicts a future shortage of between 14,000 to 19,000 leaders sparked by increasing pupil numbers, retirements, and school leaders leaving the profession early.

Among the options Kleban presented were increasing the number of students per class, which will bring in more per - pupil funding from the state, or cutting some vacancies and spreading those duties among other educators — having some curriculum directors take on additional teaching duties, for example.

But there are also record numbers of pupils, with 8.4 million children in the state system, up 100,000 on the previous year and set to increase.

The next remit to the Review Body must allow them to make the recommendations on pay that they believe are needed to ensure that teaching remains an attractive profession and can recruit and retain sufficient staff to be able to teach the increasing numbers of pupils that have been forecast.

It is important to note that because the standard of the easiest questions remains the same as on previous tests, we are not expecting any significant increase in the number of pupils not sitting the tests.

Research for The Key also found that an increasing number of schools were employing their own counsellors, or drawing on voluntary services, to improve their pupils» well - being.

If this pattern is replicated in the proportion of teachers actually leaving the profession, this has the potential to place further pressure on the teaching workforce at a time when the EBacc, and rising pupil numbers, are both increasing the need for teachers in these subjects.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.