Sentences with phrase «number of pupils»

In many cases schools select different classes or groups for each session so that a large number of pupils in each school are given the opportunity to play cricket.

With an increasing number of pupils, and the demand for new teachers increasing, there are few signs that the problem will get any better in the short to medium term.

The results found that grammar schools only take in a small number of pupils who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals.

This means those that move large numbers of pupils into different exams each year are more likely to have unpredictable results.

In particular the data revealed that state secondary schools were having to accommodate for a rising number of pupils, increasing by 2.8 per cent.

Today's figures suggest pupils in grammar schools are more often taught by qualified, experienced teachers than those in schools with higher numbers of pupils from low - income families.

There will be a # 23 million (0.1 per cent) funding pot to go towards schools that have high numbers of pupils joining through the year.

Critics of the expansion plans have focused on the low number of pupils attending grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals - used as a traditional measure of poverty.

Schools in affluent areas with small numbers of pupils eligible for funding will also have very limited budgets to work with, which will limit the range of interventions that they can potentially use.

These include the extra start - up costs and higher costs linked to what will probably be a small number of pupils in such schools.

Some fear that organisations running academy chains will want to drive efficiencies by merging tiny village schools with very low numbers of pupils.

The need to squeeze greater numbers of pupils into buildings designed with much smaller intakes in mind is forcing a lot of schools to compromise on other aspects of their learning environment.

Numbers vary from meeting to meeting, but the average number of pupils involved is 20 to 25.

But a significant number of pupils from disadvantaged areas still leave school with few qualifications.

Individual schools have reported unprecedented numbers of pupils failing to get a grade C or above.

This loss of outdoor space provides added challenges as you have a large number of pupils confined within buildings, often with a lot of energy to burn off.

To this end, we have a separate building for the small number of pupils who aren't coping in the main school.

But the main problem is the rising number of pupils.

Class size has been a significant issue for many years, with concerns long expressed about the quality of teaching possible when a single teacher is responsible for large numbers of pupils.

However, a significant number of pupils, especially from disadvantaged areas, will still leave school with few qualifications.

Too often musical interventions in learning are short term affairs that target a small number of pupils.

Private school teachers» salaries have risen less than 1 per cent this year, despite record numbers of pupils taking up places.

The arts side of the project is for pupils in years 4 & 5 at St Mark's and Southmead primary schools, both of which have a higher - than - average number of pupils on Free School Meals and minimal arts facilities.

If increasing numbers of pupils achieve the outcomes we want then we should have cause to celebrate rather than opening up accusations of «dumbing down».

However we must be mindful that this research was carried out before the Prime Minister's announcement earlier this week that a Conservative Government would provide an extra # 7 billion for extra places for rising numbers of pupils at a «flat cash» rate that would reduce with inflation.»

When pressed by Hull MP and former NUT activist Emma Hardy on whether changes to gradings could reward schools that took large numbers of pupils with special education needs or excluded pupils, Spielman said this was an «interesting suggestion for the new framework».

Experts have commented that it is unlikely that the numbers of existing teachers will be able to fulfil not just this policy announcement, but also the demand of the increasing numbers of pupils studying the English and International Baccalaureates.

The year Obama was elected, the average number of pupils per professional in the public schools was 15, down from 19 in 1980 and 26 in 1960.

Ofqual said it was fair for pupils with disabilities to receive a «reasonable adjustment» when taking exams but some schools were much more likely to have high numbers of pupils receiving extra help and if there were no «obvious good reasons» it would now ask them to «review their approach».

In a recent survey conducted by the Design and Technology Association, 705 of 1,300 respondents said that government accountability measures were resulting in decreasing numbers of pupils opting to study the subject at GCSE.

At secondary level, the survey findings highlight the reduced numbers of pupils opting for GCSE and A-level languages, with teachers citing the exam system as a particular barrier for language course take - up.

«This is particularly important at a time when there are increasing numbers of pupils reaching secondary age and such a high demand for selective school places.»

A growing number of children now attend charter schools operated by regional or national firms with non-local «brand names» (e.g. KIPP, National Heritage, Achievement First) and a growing number of pupils now absorb at least part of the curriculum from online providers at the state or national (and, in time, planetary) level.

Local areas used for comparison are «Middle Super Output Areas», which comprise of 5,000 - 15,000 households or roughly the same number of pupils as a secondary school.

But nationally there is a concern that a large number of pupils leave PRUs without achieving meaningful qualifications.

Indeed, a 705 of 1,300 respondents to a survey conducted by the Design and Technology Association, said that government accountability measures were resulting in decreasing numbers of pupils opting to study the subject at GCSE and, in some schools, it has been cut entirely.

UCAS figures show number of pupils with a BTec vocational qualification soaring fivefold since 2008 to 250,000

Neither have a high number of pupil premium eligible students and in terms of pupils with SEN both schools are below the national average.

«The EPI's analysis shows the eye - watering scale of the challenge in having enough teachers for the soaring number of pupils over the next eight years.

Currently, if this factor is used in a local formula it is based on pupils» average distance from the next closest school, together with the total number of pupils in the school they attend.

The driving school, which has in excess of 1200 instructors throughout the nation and a significant number of pupils learning with them each year, will be adding around 350 brand new MINIs on to its fleet before Christmas.

Exact figures for the previous year are still being collated but early indication is positive with a high number of the pupils involved achieving Level 6.

Kent's education chief has called for grammar schools to open in other counties after figures revealed numbers of pupils coming from outside Kent.

The figures show that pupils in Middlesborough are the most likely to receive an exclusion — at a rate 4.18, which is worked out as a percentage of the number of exclusions by the overall number of pupils in the area.

A greater number of pupils in the deprived borough in the north west of England are entitled to free meals than in the wealthier London borough.

Instead, the most substantial issue, according to the NFER, is that teaching numbers are failing to respond to the soaring numbers of pupils.