Sentences with phrase «more pupils achieving»

Converter academies — those rated good or outstanding by Ofsted at the time of conversion to academy status — have more pupils achieving Level 4/5 and above than LA schools.

Taking a sample of schools which converted to academy status between 2010 and 2012, there were 3.6 % more pupils achieving five good GCSEs including English and maths than comparable local authority schools.

Not exact matches

On average, 82 per cent of pupils achieve five or more GCSEs at grade A * to C, including English and mathematics.

Aled Roberts AM has called for increased investment in the Pupil Deprivation Grant after theDeputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced today the biggest ever rise in the Pupil Premium for primary schools in England to help ensure that more pupils are able to achieve higher standards.

Healthy: Mr Clegg will argue that pupils who have school meals are healthier and achieve more academically

Dyslexia friendly classrooms As part of the mission to achieve «dyslexia friendly» classrooms, the BDA runs a certification scheme, the Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark, which encourages schools to make themselves more responsive to the needs of dyslexic pupils; the BDA's training courses can form a part of the process for achieving this status.

The textbooks would become more sophisticated for higher ages of pupils, and at some point would also introduce the MDGs or the future SDGs, including ways for the young people to contribute to achieving them, in their local community, their country, region, other countries and regions, and the world as a whole.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

They do this by promoting qualities that are designed to help pupils develop valuable skills and motivate them to be more engaged and achieve better grades.

With the latest GCSE results showing the sharpest decline in the percentage of students achieving C grades or above since 1988, and school leaders saying that pupils are bringing more worries into school than they did five years ago, these statistics highlight the concerns for students» mental wellbeing and suggest that today's students are struggling to cope with the increasing demands placed on them by exams.

In contrast, Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Assocation of School and College Leaders (ASCL), maintains that pupil premium funding is making a positive difference, but that there is still more to be achieved.

Would your pupils achieve more if their mindset was like Holly's?

Ucas data shows that universities are increasingly «more flexible» with grade requirements, accepting pupils who fail to achieve their predicted grades.

In 2014, the number of wealthiest students who achieved three or more As increased to 21.13 per cent, while the number of poorer pupils saw a much smaller jump to 2.99 per cent.

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.

Dyslexia friendly classrooms As part of the mission to achieve «dyslexia friendly» classrooms, the BDA run a certification scheme, the Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark, which encourages schools to make themselves more responsive to the needs of dyslexic pupils; the BDA's training courses can form a part of the process for achieving this status.

Whilst a higher proportion of secondary schools are outstanding (113 schools achieved Ofsted's highest grade in the last year alone), more than 170,000 pupils are now in secondary schools rated inadequate - an increase of around 70,000 from two years ago.

Whatever you are currently doing outside the classroom is already very useful for your pupils: be proud of anything you have achieved so far, and take inspiration from how others have been able to offer their pupils even more.

«As well as raising standards, our plan for education is ensuring more pupils leave school with the qualifications which we know will give them the best possible chance to achieve their full potential.»

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

By teaching more students and achieving excellence in teams, teachers can earn more from existing per - pupil funding, even after new costs for technology and additional paraprofessional support.

The FEA has called for more to be done to achieve consistently good education standards, and recommends overhauling careers guidance and increasing efforts to promote pupils» wellbeing.

Analysis published by the Education Policy Institute and UCL Institute of Education shows that 90,000 more primary pupils need to achieve the expected maths standard at the end of primary for England to be considered «world class.

«Our white paper reforms are the next step in achieving excellence everywhere by putting control in the hands of the teachers and school leaders who know their pupils best, alongside new measures to more swiftly tackle failing and coasting schools.

The programme was introduced in September 2016 and the results from the first year show that more than 380 out of 400 pupils achieved over 80 percent in reading, writing, listening and speaking tests, which shows their quick progress and the advanced understanding of the language.

Education data firm SchoolDash mapped the provisional GCSE results for 2015, and found that 4.7 per cent more pupils in the South achieve five GCSEs, including English and Maths, compared to their northern contemporaries.

For Key Stage 2 (KS2) results, information must include the percentage of pupils who achieved level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths; the percentage of pupils who have improved by two or more levels in reading, writing and maths between KS1 and KS2; and the percentage of pupils who achieved level 5 or above in reading, writing, and maths.

Regarding KS4 results, the school must publish on its website the percentage of pupils who achieved grade C or above in GCSEs (or equivalent) in five or more subjects, including English and maths.

The World of Work initiative is backed by academic research showing pupils are likely to achieve more in school if they have work aspirations [1]; they prefer careers information directly from employees [2]; and the more employee contacts they have, the more they learn about work [3].

One future step may be to try and develop the intervention into a more structured programme targeted specifically at low achieving pupils and pupils eligible for free school meals.

In Shanghai, for example, some of the most disadvantaged pupils were achieving more at 15 than advantaged students in England.

In 2010, 12.4 per cent achieved the benchmark of five or more A * to C grades, including English and maths, compared with 52.9 per cent of other pupils — a 40 per cent gap.

In particular, more disadvantaged pupils are getting good grades in English and Maths, and more are sitting and achieving the English Baccalaureate.

One of the benefits of providing a range of different coding tools for pupils to explore over the course of their schooling is that they are likely to develop a more flexible and creative approach to using programming to achieve their goals.

An Education Policy Institute study says as grammars expand, they will take more lower ability pupils - diluting their high achieving potential.

Most pupils who left a secondary school did so in the first three years, the report suggested, while a previous Education Datalab report has shown that pupils who received free school meals were also more likely to move and less likely to achieve five good GCSEs thereafter.

In February, Mr Gove announced that secondary schools in England would no longer be judged on the proportion of pupils who achieved five or more A * - C grades at GCSE, including English and maths.

Nicky Morgan, education secretary, said: «This is the first year we have assessed pupils under the new more rigorous system and it is no surprise that this year's results look different to previous years, but despite that the majority of pupils have achieved above and beyond the new expected standard.»

An education trust is launching an external review after less than a third of pupils at one of its free schools achieved five or more A * to C...

Staff at Bournville School, in Birmingham, are celebrating today after an eight per cent rise in the number of pupils achieving five or more A * to C grades, including English and maths.

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «The fact that many more disadvantaged primary school pupils are achieving good results is testament to the hard work and dedication of teachers and school leaders across the country.»

Just 2,000 pupils got 9s in all of them, but this is far more than was predicted — some even thought no one would achieve it!

The analysis found that pupils achieve almost two points more — a third of a grade — across all non-GCSE qualifications, most notably in the ECDL.

Mel West, co-editor of the review and head of Manchester University's school of education, says that schools in isolation are not going to be able to achieve a more equal outcome for pupils.

That year, IES Breckland saw 40 per cent of its pupils achieve five or more A * to C grades, including English and Maths.

It found pupils with special educational needs are more likely to achieve three As if they have a statement (8.2 per cent), compared to students without a statement (6.4 per cent).

The report by the inspection body Estyn also found more able pupils were not achieving as well as those in England.

A project called Challenging the Gap, which helped schools to collaborate with each other to help poorer pupils achieve as highly as their more affluent peers, had no impact.

However, the study found that among pupils who had originally thought themselves «unlikely» to apply for university, the richest who achieved the best GCSE results were more than two - and - a-half times more likely to change their mind and apply to university, compared with high - scoring poor pupils.

An education trust is launching an external review after less than a third of pupils at one of its free schools achieved five or more A * to C grades in its first set of GCSE results.