Sentences with phrase «looking at grammar schools»

Tutors on the online local services site have revealed that the recent change in marking criteria and the number of parents looking at grammar schools has fuelled the increase.

Or, if we look at grammar schools or independent schools, many of which are not only selective but also more academic and less vocational which in itself can close off certain avenues for students.

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That it messes with structure and medium is nothing new, but as with the casting of Downey Jr. and Monaghan as grammar - school classmates (even as it's commenting on Hollywood's treatment of women, it's guilty of it), as it's fucking with the way we look at film and understand narratives, it's indulging in the topsy - turvy, smart - alecky vogue of Guy Ritchie / Christopher Nolan chic.

Hosted by Alicia Blanco - Bayo, pre-school manager at Kirkham Grammar School, the seminar will also look at how play can be differentiated, how to plan for differentiated play, and how to orientate children so that they can initiate play that had previously been differentiated.

The EPIs analysis looked at the implications of expanding or opening new grammar schools by assessing areas on a set of tests that mirror the conditions set out in the «Schools that work for everyone» greenschools by assessing areas on a set of tests that mirror the conditions set out in the «Schools that work for everyone» greenSchools that work for everyone» green paper.

«I think we need to be able to move this debate on and look at things as they are today, and maybe step away from a more old - fashioned debate around grammar schools and work out where they fit in today's landscape.»

«What we're looking at here is funding which is fundamentally going to change the nature of grammar schools,» he said.

Explaining her support from grammar schools, Tilley added: «When you look around at children they are not all equal, they are different.

If we look at the gap in attainment in grammar schools between those who are from disadvantaged backgrounds and those who are not, we see that it is virtually zero — that is not the same in other schools.»

We're looking very carefully at our admissions code, which has already changed to allocate places for pupil premium [additional funding for schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils] and other disadvantage indicators, and overcome the stigma from some families that grammar schools are not for them.»

If you look at the comments in the Daily Mail under any article about grammar schools, the vast majority of their readers (ie Tory voters) want them».

The Blackden Trust is an educational charity, based in a Tudor Medicine House on a 10,000 year old site, that welcomes pupils from The Manchester Grammar School to look at the past through a new persp...

The research also looks at GCSE attainment for pupils at grammar schools.

«It must be good news that the government is looking at repealing a statutory ban new grammar schools.

Much of this question depends on what you mean by grammar schools working, but you could look at whether they work for the pupils attending them and for the education system as a whole.

An excellent place to start looking at the evidence on grammar schools is with the work of Newsnight's Chris Cook.

«A significant number of grammar schools are looking at a very bleak financial future,» says Charlotte Martens, vice-chairman of the Grammar School Heads Assocgrammar schools are looking at a very bleak financial future,» says Charlotte Martens, vice-chairman of the Grammar School Heads AssocGrammar School Heads Association.

«If you look at the attainment within grammar schools, poorer children do better in grammar schools than they do in other schools,» said Mrs May.

Looking at deprivation levels within a 5 km (three - mile) distance of a grammar school can reveal how closely the school matches its locality.

But she said Ms Greening was looking at the issue of new grammar schools as well as other areas of education policy.

If you look at opinion polls what you find is that older voters like it, and particularly older voters who remember grammar schools in the old way like it, but parents who actually have to make invidious choices about where to send their children hate it.»

Should we look at creating a bursary scheme which offsets costs for children entering grammar school - uniform costs for example.

She said: «We need to look at, for example, should children on free school meals be able to enter grammar schools if they have lower than the average [test score] that is required in Kent?

The report also looked at the impact the academic selection of grammar schools had on other schools that the grammar pupils could have gone to.

«We have set out our proposals to look at introducing more grammar schools where local communities want that.»

The research, which also looks at GCSE attainment for pupils at grammar schools, confirms that while grammar school pupils do score slightly higher at GCSE, it concludes that much of this can be explained by prior levels of attainment.

«Having made social mobility the centre of his conference speech, David Cameron should look at the clear evidence on grammar schools: they do not increase equality of opportunity, they make it worse,» said Powell.

He said grammar schools should look again at their admissions policies and ensure they were making provision for children from disadvantaged areas or with special needs, even if that means altering the entrance requirements, and do more outreach work in deprived areas.

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