Sentences with phrase «numbers of pupils from»

Grammar schools in Kent have been criticised for having low numbers of pupils from poorer backgrounds.

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.

Labour MP Lucy Powell has criticised London's grammar schools for educating a «shamefully low» number of pupils from poor backgrounds.

Last year a record number of pupils from Scotland secured a university place on exams results day, with 28,300 confirming their position on the course they hoped for, but the charity is urging parents and teachers to remind children it is «not the end of the world» if they fail to earn the grades they were hoping for.

Grammar schools in the capital were today accused of having a «shamefully low» number of pupils from poor backgrounds.

The Brilliant Club is an award - winning charity that exists to increase the number of pupils from under - represented backgrounds progressing to highly - selective universities.

On 8th March 2017 a number of pupils from Keresley Newland Praimay Academy were invited to the Yonex All England Badminton Championship at the National Indoor Arena.

He has launched a commission to investigate how to boost the number of pupils from poorer homes in grammars.

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

Not exact matches

My school had an unusually high number of such educated teachers, winding down from their wartime careers in the army, the Church, or the colonial service, and many of their pupils were drawn to them.

A number of Church of England and Catholic schools are offering pupils a type of halal meat from animals which are not stunned before they are killed, according to the leader of the county council.

The group should include one or more individuals from the following list: • The headteacher or a member of the senior management team • Parents • Governors • The school catering manager and / or area supervisor • Midday supervisors • Class teachers • Pupils (4 - 6 has been shown to be a good number).

There was, however, a decline in the number of pupils taking core subjects such as geography and history and modern languages, and a marked rise in the number of non - academic / vocational qualifications being taken, particularly by pupils from the poorest backgrounds or those attending schools in disadvantaged areas.

The number of Key Stage 1 classes reported as unlawfully having more than 30 pupils on the census day was 310 (from a total of 54,790 classes), 0.6 per cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up from 0.3 per cent in January 2010.

The number of Key Stage 1 classes reported as having more than 30 pupils, but which met legal requirements (which allow infant classes of more than 30 in very limited circumstances) on the census day was 1,060 (from a total of 54,790 classes), 1.9 per cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up from 1.6 per cent in January 2010.

A copy of the results from the «Big Question» on pupil behaviour is attached, along with details of a number of «refusal to teach» ballots taken by the NASUWT during 2011 on pupil indiscipline.

He has been a passionate supporter for annual increases in the Pupil Deprivation Grant which gives schools with higher numbers of children from poor backgrounds more money to spend.

One school was praised by Ofsted for using money from the pupil premium to pay for a number of cultural trips to Saudi Arabia.

They examined the links between the number of outlets and teenage smoking habits using responses from a survey of more than 20,000 school pupils aged between 13 and 15.

The data — taken from The Key's annual State of Education report, to be released next month — reveals that 59 % of schools (which equates to 14,347 schools in England) received more applications for places this academic year than the number of pupils they could accommodate.

The introduction of the new English Baccalaureate (eBac) stemmed from the government's concern that there had been a «dramatic collapse» in the number of pupils taking GCSEs in traditional academic subjects including English, maths, science, foreign language and humanities.

The number of top schools with less than six per cent of disadvantaged pupils is also down from 57 per cent in 2013 to 39 per cent in 2016.

Only 2.5 per cent of grammar school pupils are eligible for FSM, compared to 13.2 per cent in all schools and the EPI found that grammar schools attract a larger number of high attaining non-FSM pupils from other areas, meaning there is a disproportionately large number of high attaining, non-disadvantaged children.

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.

A large number of these pupils come from disadvantaged backgrounds; the proportion of these pupils leaving school with strong qualifications has risen from 27.5 per cent to 32,9 per cent, equivalent to 7,150 pupils.

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Ms Curnock Cook further voiced that a focus on universities on increasing their intakes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds «probably did not» threaten the prospects of privately - educated pupils, because falling pupil numbers meant students with «good A-levels will be in more demand than ever».

The number of schools with pupils enrolled on EBacc subjects more than doubled over the eighteen months from its introduction, which illustrates the profound influence of the EBacc on school behaviour.

Statistics show that the number of primary school pupils suspended or given fixed term exclusions for assaulting an adult increased by 25 per cent from 9,290 in 2012 - 1013 to 11,660 in 2013 - 14.

According to the 2016 STF ski trip survey, the number of UK secondary schools choosing to take pupils on annual ski trips rose to 62.8 per cent, up from 43.3 per cent in 2014.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

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.

Unfortunately, we know from a number of studies that many schools have struggled to deploy, train and support teaching assistants in ways which benefit pupils.

The study examined migration between 2000 and 2012 and found that there were no links between the number of migrant pupils and the performance of schools, including the UK, where schools with a high proportion of migrant families did not perform any differently from the average.

The average number of entries overall per pupil has fallen since 2013, standing at 0.70 in 2016, which is lower than any other time in the period under review and comes after an increase between 2010 and 2013 from 0.75 to 0.80.

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Only half of parents and carers had heard of the EBacc, compared to 58 per cent last year, despite a push from ministers to increase the number of pupils studying the core academic EBacc subjects.

There has been a nine per cent increase in the number of pupils removed from school for being verbally abusive to adults, up from 550 in 2014 - 15 to 600 last year.

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.

For instance, ensuring disadvantaged pupils are entered for the same number of subjects as all other pupils would lower the forecast gap in Attainment 8 scores from 10.8 points to 8.8 in 2021, a significant reduction.

In addition to this, the number of pupils taking at least one arts subject has decreased from 49.6 per cent in 2015 to 47.9 per cent in 2016.

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.

Data is gathered from the Now 77 CD and pupils are required to analyse this data from a number of diferent directions including stem - leaf diagrams, two - way tables, cumulative frequency plots, histograms, probability and mean, mode and median.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Fewer pupils in the north - east are learning a language, with the number of pupils participating in a language GCSE down 43 per cent from 45 per cent in 2014.

A pack of 4 Year 2 GDS Maths Problems designed to meet the following statements from the 2017 - 18 TAF: The pupil can reason about addition The pupil can use multiplication facts to make deductions outside known multiplication facts The pupil can solve more complex missing number problems The pupil can solve word problems that involve more than one step The pupil can recognise the relationships between addition and subtraction and can rewrite addition statements as simplified multiplication statements Each problem includes a «hint», solution, and sentence starters to help children to aid their explanations.

The number of pupils for each support staff member dropped from 58 in 1960 to 43 in 1970, to just 27 in 2005.

Perhaps the best evidence comes from a recent study in Minnesota, which estimated that increasing the number of instructional days from 175 to 200 would cost close to $ 1,000 per student, in a state where the median per - pupil expenditure is about $ 9,000.

Time, Time Measurement and Time Problems - Year 3 - 3 PowerPoint presentations and worksheets designed to teach pupils how to tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12 - hour and 24 - hour clocks; estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year; compare durations of events.

The decision reportedly followed requests from a small number of families and so far at least one pupil has decided to take the option.