Sentences with phrase «more pupils attending»

There are 1.8 million more pupils attending good or outstanding maintained schools and academies today than in August 2010.»

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Members of local humanist groups attended talks given to parents in Milton Keynes, Wakefield and Bournemouth, and more recently, members of Feminist Action Cambridge (FAC) were able to attend a talk given to secondary pupils in a school.

The researchers base their findings on a nationally representative sample of more than 3000 pupils attending 127 schools across Norway.

If you attend Incline High School in the upscale town of Incline Village, for instance, you in effect «receive» more than $ 13,248 in public funds — that is, the per - pupil expenditure in that community, which is far above the state average of $ 8,274 per pupil.

A study carried out in a large primary school in a deprived area of the Midlands confirmed that nursery children with social, emotional mental health problems, who attend Psychomotor Prevention improved not only their physical development and emotional wellbeing but also speech & language measurably more than pupils not attending.

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.

The impact of these Healthy Schools activities means that: pupils are more engaged in P.E; literacy has improved; pupils have better relationships with one another and are more physically active at break and lunch times; attendance is in line with national averages; there are very low incidences of bad behaviour recorded after lunch time; all pupils that attended swing high club showed improved handwriting as a result of this intervention; 55 fruit pots are sold each day to pupils in KS2; and 40 pupils attend breakfast club.

Disadvantaged black pupils are now more than twice as likely to attend grammars as in 2012, but are still also significantly under - represented.

In some cities, including New Orleans and the District of Columbia, more than one in five pupils attend a charter school.

Yet, Hammond believes that the transport scheme will help more disadvantaged pupils attend selective schools as for «many parents the cost of travel can be a barrier to exercising choice».

Never have Britain's elite jobs been more dominated by privately educated students despite only seven per cent of pupils attending independent schools.

In one school, pupils who regularly participated in Greenhouse Sports» programmes, which are mainly delivered outside the school curriculum, consistently attended, on average, a week's more school per year than their non-Greenhouse peers.

As a consequence, the participating pupils attended between 3.5 days and 10 more days of school a year than their peers in control groups.

Female pupils are 8 per cent more likely to attend university than males (44 per cent versus 36 per cent).

«Simply allowing more disadvantaged pupils to attend grammar schools will not create the systematic improvement needed for a world - class education system,» he said.

This almost doubles the # 10,000 to # 30,000 per pupil annual cost of a SEND pupil attending a state - funded school place, as estimated by SEND consultant Barney Angliss and Laxmi Patel, senior associate solicitor and head of education at law firm Boyes Turner, though both stress costs can be more if a pupil's needs are severe.

In fact, a pupil attending a private prep school is ten times more likely to enter a grammar than a pupil on free school meals.

Disadvantaged Indian pupils are four times more likely to attend a grammar than disadvantaged white British pupils, and disadvantaged Chinese pupils fifteen times more.

The areas more likely to be affected are those with the highest proportion of pupils not attending «good» or «outstanding» schools.

«Take two people of the same ability at age 11 and with the same parental background, track them forward, and the pupil who attends independent school is likely to earn substantially more,» he said.

The more experienced pupils from Marlborough will also attend CCF camps during the Holidays.

Parents will also be given more details about schools, their teachers and the pupils attending them.

Some pupils have been «targeted» to attend, but because of demand more than half of year 11 are turning up.

At secondary level, more than a third of the pupils attend a school that is inadequate or requires improvement, compared with 21 per cent nationally.

Sutton Trust figures from the 2012 London Olympics revealed more than a third (36 per cent) of British medal winners attended a private school, despite those schools only educating 7 per cent of pupils.

Schleicher argued that the high level of choice Swedish pupils enjoyed over which school they attended needed to be backed up by a more effective regulatory system.

Mr McBirnie welcomed Mr Vaizey's dialogue with Mr Hinds and hopes it will help persuade more heads to allow pupils to attend performing arts exams in school hours.

Researchers found that in areas of the country where 10 per cent or more of pupils attend state - run selective schools, just 15.8 per cent of 11 - year - olds were from «just about managing» families, who comprise about 6m households on low and low - to - middle incomes, according to one definition.

Disadvantaged Indian pupils were four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school, while disadvantaged Chinese pupils were 15 times as likely.

Disadvantaged black pupils are now more than twice as likely to attend grammars as in 2012, but are still also significantly under - represented, say researchers.

Their research also reveals how ethnic background plays a significant role in grammar school entry, with disadvantaged Indian pupils four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school.

«shares the strong commitment of this Government to promoting and improving social mobility and building a country that works for everyone; notes that there are now more than 1.4 million pupils in England attending good or outstanding schools than in 2010; and welcomes the opportunity afforded by the Schools that Work for Everyone consultation to seek the widest possible range of views on how the Government can build upon these successes and awaits the outcome of the current consultation.».

We expect more than 1,400 education leaders to attend, including superintendents; assistant superintendents; directors of special education, finance, pupil personnel, food service, communications, curriculum and assessment; principals; assistant principals; counselors; and other public education leaders who play a key role in shaping education policy and preparing our students for college and careers in today's world.