Sentences with phrase «number of pupils who»

The deputy head of a school with a disproportionately high number of pupils who are either adopted, or in care, has taken the lead in educating her colleagues» about attachment.

«There certainly has been an increase in the number of pupils who are displaying different types of mental health problems,» he said.

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

Head teachers are angry at a drop in the number of pupils who achieved at least a grade C in their English GCSE.

Concerns have been raised about the impact of today's key stage 2 results on the number of primary schools falling «below the floor» and the number of pupils who might be expected to sit resits at secondary school.

The purpose of increasing the number of pupils demonstrating proficiency in science and mathematics on the state assessment and to increase the number of pupils who are college and career ready upon high school graduation.

Although the course includes progress tests, the real success of the project is measured by the number of pupils who eventually succeed in getting in to selective senior schools.

They do this because they know that it will lead to a reduction in the number of pupils who may need to access targeted provision, and that what is good practice for meeting SEN is effectively good practice for all.

The overall figure of 53 per cent relates to the number of pupils who reached the expected standard in all three subjects.

Experts have labelled the new system as «unreliable» and state that the number of pupils who will be given unreliable results in their English GCSE is set to rise from 30 per cent to 45 per cent.

The number of pupils who have been refused assessments to determine if they need extra support to meet special educational needs has increased by 35 per cent.

Mark Steward, a leading specialist, has also stated that the Department for Education (DfE) does not record the number of pupils who are left - handed, even though they make up around 10 per cent of the population.

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

Schools» eligibility for a bursary will be decided based on the number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals or pupil premium.

Additionally, a study from the National Literacy Trust on the effects of ebooks on reading progress suggested that boys were keener to read ebooks than their paper counterparts, with ebooks facilitating a 25 per cent rise in the number of pupils who read daily and a 22 per cent increase in those who read for an hour or longer.

In contrast, the number of pupils who chose to study Spanish rose by around 15 per cent.

The number of pupils who practise the faith after they leave school is constantly declining.

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Given the thousands of pupils who passed through those schools during those decades, that is a very small number indeed.

Currently, faith schools are limited in the number of pupils they can admit who share the religious ethos of the school.

Schools have improved in the last 13 years in many ways - in raw standards, in the number and percentage of pupils who now gain the magic five A * - C (or equivalent) GCSEs, in the quality of teaching and learning in our schools, in the quality of our school buildings, in the creativity and flexibility of the curriculum, and in the range and quality of specialist equipment in schools.

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The PDG provides additional funding to schools based on the number of pupils on eligible for Free School Meals (e-FSM) and also for those children who are looked after (LAC).

Between 2005 and 2007 the number of pupils receiving free school meals — a standard measure of poverty — who went to university jumped by 18 % compared to a rise of 9 % among pupils not entitled to free school meals.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

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.

And pupil - teacher ratios have fallen by almost 50 percent due to investments in class - size reduction and an increase in the number of teachers who are not assigned to full classrooms (see Figure 2).

«Given this was a voluntary process with only 25 % of schools responding, it is reasonable to assume that schools who know they are not compliant would be less likely to respond, therefore the true number who are failing to comply could be substantially higher, with hundreds of schools putting pupils and teachers at risk by failing to manage asbestos effectively.

Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data reveals that in the past four years there has been an increase in the number of pupils with SEND who attend a specialist school, up from 5.6 per cent in 2012 to 8.5 per cent in 2016.

Pupils are required to complete a number of tasks to decide who should replace santa; buddy the elf or Fred Claus.

This inevitably shrinks the number of middle - class students who remain to «integrate» with disadvantaged pupils.

«There are still significant numbers of schools ignoring health and safety provisions and who are not managing their asbestos effectively, putting pupils and staff at risk.

The number of pupils in England and Wales who were entered for the full course GCSE in Religious Studies (RS) has reached its highest since 2002.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

Unfortunately, we were not able to control for changes in the number of students who spoke limited English or in the school's operating cost per pupil, because at the time of the study such information was available only up to the 2001 - 02 school year.

As the title suggests, this book has been written for lots of people: • Year 6 pupils who have a good understanding of number will find the early chapters useful — particularly with the onset of secondary school.

Schools use the PDG in a number of different ways, including nurture groups for children who may be socially and emotionally vulnerable, out - of - hours school learning, on - site multi-agency support and better tracking of pupils as they progress through school.

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.

This year's focus on public schools, which includes $ 649 million in new per - pupil funding, comes after three budgets that cut or froze public school spending, and expanded the number of families who could enroll children in private schools through taxpayer - funded vouchers.

We believe the research community can play a key role in increasing the number of under - represented pupils who apply for highly - selective universities.

The Families of Schools database is a free tool that groups similar schools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children who speak English as an additional language.

The programme was set up initially after the head teacher from St Peter's School in Farnworth approached Bolton School to ask for help in raising the attainment of a select number pupils in Year 6 who were preparing to take the Level 6 SATs paper.

The school serves a disadvantaged community where there are above average numbers of pupils with special educational needs and who speak English as a second language, and many experience challenging circumstances at home.

England needs to double the number of disadvantaged pupils who achieve the top GCSE grades in maths to catch up with the best - performing countries around the world, according...

This idea came from Roxeth's Headteacher, who is very keen to assist children in receipt of the Pupil Premium in a meaningful way and this joint project with the Salvation Army has been successful on a number of levels.

The number of requests for exam scripts to receive «special consideration» in marking increased this summer, mainly thanks to the new linear structure of GCSEs which forbids re-sits — but fewer requests from pupils who were ill or not able to sit an exam were approved.

However, the CofE noted that a number of its rural schools are ineligible, as the sparsity factor applies only to pupils who would have to travel more than two miles to the next primary school.

This is done in one - to - one assessments with teachers, who use checklists that include a series of questions such as whether a pupil can maintain concentration when listening to others or can subtract using single - digit numbers.

The government says the decline in the number of pupils with SEN has been entirely within the group of pupils who do not have a statement or EHC plan.

Parents who don't register their eligibility also pose a problem for school budgets, as things like pupil premium cash is paid based on the number of FSM - eligible pupils.

I suspect that Lambeth Council's use if the word «surplus «school places does not take into account the numbers of Lambeth primary school pupils who attend a secondary school outside the borough.