Sentences with phrase «maintained schools»

Before moving to the independent sector, she worked in maintained schools with pupils who lived through challenging circumstances.

The note makes clear that this includes cooperation with governing bodies of maintained schools who are being encouraged to seek academy conversion.

The research investigated academies that have been open between two and five years with local authority maintained schools with similar characteristics using several attainment measures.

Local authorities receive the PE and sports premium funding for maintained schools in two separate payments.

The report found that differences between sponsored academies open for between two and four years and maintained schools with similar intakes were «generally small and mostly not statistically significant».

The position at maintained schools provides an interesting comparison.

In the past, the demands on principals — to preserve order and maintain the school building — were consistent with their abilities.

But it was just the opposite; grant maintained schools had far more autonomy than schools under the thumb of the local education authority.

So a Catholic maintained school could implement the ideas of this book.

It all made sense to me, and my background is in maintained schools which were doing very well.

In addition, legal powers to establish new maintained schools and to direct local schools to expand where additional places are needed, should be returned to local authorities.

-- Allow all good schools to expand, whether maintained schools, academies, free schools or grammar schools.

Other maintained schools will be required to make a submission as well by this date, and annually thereafter.

The aim of the funds is to drive up standards, and the programmes will take place at academies and maintained schools across the country.

This guide to school gardening includes getting started, building, planting, and maintaining a school garden.

Clean, well maintained school facilities play an important role in the teaching and learning process.

Local - authority maintained schools currently must open to pupils for 190 days each year, with an extra five days for teacher training.

The report found that most academies were previously good or outstanding maintained schools.

In addition to changing our culture, the training that we received assisted us in continuing to maintain a school district of excellence in spite of the changing demographics in our community.

The park district agreed to maintain the school property at its expense, including turf areas.

Maintained the school office area in a neat and organized fashion.

Objective: To ensure that elementary school students maintain school - year gains during the summer months.

Maintaining school time: Many children go to school after the school bell.

They must create and maintain a school climate where all students and educators can flourish.

A well designed and maintained school roof is vital to avoid costly repairs down the line.

Spending has declined by 28 per cent since 2010 - 11, while the number of local authority maintained schools fell by 25 per cent over this period, according to the report.

Since the introduction of grant - maintained schools back in the 1980s, state schools have been able to take more control over their finances and the way they are run.

The good news is that when interventions are faded gradually on the basis of data, students are able to maintain school success over time without additional support.

For black pupils the fall was 5.7 per cent in maintained schools compared with 4.3 in sponsored academies.

Teachers employed directly by academies, sixth form colleges and in local authority maintained schools join automatically.

Most maintained schools and academies in chains with an annual payroll of # 3 million or more will be forced to pay up.

The majority (83 per cent) were primary schools, and only 17 per cent were academies, with the rest maintained schools.

Alternatively, you may be one of the last maintained schools in your local area and that will mean more limited options.

The consultation also shows that local authorities were concerned about their ability to meet the target because maintained schools have control over their own budget and recruitment.

Both parts of the city have separate charms and maintain a school rivalry.

Maintain all school data systems, tracking all employee and student records, school schedules, and supply and asset inventories.

Maintained school evaluation records and transcripts, and certified students for completion of graduation requirements.

Over the years, I have worked diligently to maintain school premises and grounds meticulously and in an orderly condition.

The evidence on academies and chains suggests there is wide variation in their impact on pupil attainment, just as for maintained schools, but research has failed to establish why.

It focuses on academy trusts when there are highly - paid heads of maintained schools — something that we have addressed this year.

It costs a huge amount to build and maintain school buildings.

It can be «difficult to justify» maintaining a school which requires «significant investment» to «bring the building up to standard».

If such a report were given to local authority maintained schools, they would be forced to accept academy status.

Our annual «Impact of New Technologies» survey into the views of English Maintained Schools on a range of new technologies used by teachers and students carried out in conjunction with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that an increasing majority of schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2011/12.

The early cases were therefore treated very differently from LA maintained schools where formal repayment arrangements apply to loans awarded, but as far as we can tell, the playing field is more level now.