Sentences with phrase «of grammar school children»

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Alison Gray, in a recent doctoral study on the empirical use of material relating to The Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, in relation to the teaching of Key Stage Three religious education in a Catholic school in England, has shown the inherent capacity of children to reach belief by a proper use and understanding of the illative sense.

For example, when working with children in the grammar school period and with their parents, it is important to understand the general growth issues and needs that are typical of the particular life stages of the children and of their parents.

Accounts of these infamies were retold in texts used for the instruction of children in grammar, rhetoric, and poetry in the schools of that era, as pointed out by Christian apologists in their epoch.

The renovation would include two new playgrounds for preschoolers and grammar school - age children, an ice - skating rink that can be used as an in - line roller skating rink during the summer, the reconstruction and realignment of two baseball fields and a new shelter with bathrooms.

Sure, school will teach your child the fundamentals of writing (grammar, syntax, and such), but that won't necessarily make it easy or fun.

In well - trailed proposals, May defended her plans to create hundreds of new grammar schools - as Labour warned that children who fail to get into them will be left to «rot».

This is about ensuring that future generations of children, unlike me, incidentally, who was not taught grammar at primary school...

However, the Government must let go of its obsession with imposing structural solutions to the education service which continue to privilege children attending certain schools, such as free schools and grammar schools.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

Grammar schools are state secondary schools, which select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the «11 Plus».

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgSchools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

Their selective ethos makes grammar schools repugnant to educational egalitarians, who believe that equality of opportunity requires all children to have the same standard of education.

It also reorganised secondary education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.

In areas where grammar schools were the norm, the 1998 regulations made under the Act provided for ballots to be triggered by 20 per cent of parents at all schools signing a petition, while in areas where grammar schools were less common, only parents of children at «feeder schools» would be allowed to vote.

Lord Willets also highlighted comments from Sir Michael Wilshaw, the outgoing boss of Ofsted, who launched his own attack on the failure of grammar schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.

Cuomo's family has personal ties to St. Ignatius — two of his children are parishioners there, and five of his grandchildren have either graduated from or are currently enrolled in the church's grammar school.

Seventy - five percent of children won't make it to a grammar school so surely the electoral arithmetic is with us on that one?

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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.

The research report, Writing for Enjoyment and its Link to Wider Reading, also found that all children — regardless of whether they enjoy writing or not — face the same barriers to writing outside school: around half of pupils can't decide what to write and a third struggle with spelling and grammar.

After months of speculation, Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools, but with measures to ensure children from low - income families don't miss out.

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.

«Those who hold up grammar schools as the gold standard are less keen to talk about what happens to those children who, at the age of 11, are told they are not good enough.

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

Kent County Council has opened an inquiry into the lack of children from low - income backgrounds attending grammar schools.

Used in our morning meeting (as children come into school before register) one weeks worth of sheets which cover English, Grammar and Maths objecti...

While 23 per cent of people polled believed that grammar schools should be forced to accept children of all abilities, 35 per cent said they believed that grammars improve social mobility, with only 19 per cent thinking they damage social mobility and a further 27 per cent saying they make no difference at all.

Explanation We teach a lot of grammar in primary schools, but many children still struggle to see how it all fits together.

The results also found that when it came to the more personal choice of which school people would choose to send their own children to, grammars appeared much more popular.

67 per cent of respondents said they would send their child to a grammar school if they had passed an entrance exam, with just 10 per cent saying they would not.

As many as two - thirds believe that grammar schools level the playing field for children from disadvantaged backgrounds either some, 54 per cent, or all, 13 per cent, of the time.

Participants learn through: - Participating in a fun pub - style quiz to eradicate common spelling, punctuation, and grammar misconceptions and errors; - Considering the role of parents, their needs and interests, and what they expect from their child's school, as a means to understand why schools sometimes receive difficult communications; - Reading and analysing examples of poor written correspondence, considering how both the tone and the accuracy can be improved; - Exploring different language strategies to create a personal, polite tone within emails, by considering the connotations of different words; - Taking away help sheets that can be referred to whenever written communications are being drafted.

Jenny Whittle, chairman of the council's grammar schools and social mobility select committee, said: «We can't impose our recommendations, but I really do believe that there is a spirit of co-operation and a real willingness to see more children from poorer backgrounds benefit from a selective education.»

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

«The Tories» plans for grammar - school segregation of our children expose their divisive and damaging agenda for our country.»

As for grammar schools, there is the stigma that these institutions are reserved for the children of the wealthy and middle class, with statistics that reflect that children from working class backgrounds are far less likely to obtain a place.

Between the ages of five and 16, children will sit four rounds of compulsory exams, not including the 11 + and Common Entrance exams that those applying for grammar or private schools will take.

She added: «What a damning verdict of our country if we went back to an era where we told four in every five children at the age of 11 that there was a cap on their potential and it was only the grammar school kids who could get far.»

However, Melissa Benn, chair of Comprehensive Future, told Tes that grammar schools that have already changed their admissions policies to prioritise children entitled to the pupil premium have only ended up admitting «two or three» additional disadvantaged children.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

Just under three - quarters of those children in England who were tutored were given a grammar school place, compared with 14 per cent of those that were not tutored.

Bexley said it had the second - highest rate in the city of children at grammar schools eligible for free school meals — three per cent — behind Redbridge.

Ms Powell, a former shadow education secretary, said: «Grammar schools in London have a shameful record of giving opportunities to children on free school meals.

Grammar schools are controversial as they select all their pupils on the basis of ability tests, known as the 11 - plus, which children take at the age of 10 or 11.

Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner said: «The continued obsession with grammar schools will do nothing for the vast majority of children, and it is absurd for ministers to push ahead with plans to expand them when the evidence is clear that they do nothing to improve social mobility.»

Matthew Tate, the head teacher of Trinity School, said: «We believe that the site is big enough to share with the grammar school and that would be the best way forward for the children of Sevenoaks.&School, said: «We believe that the site is big enough to share with the grammar school and that would be the best way forward for the children of Sevenoaks.&school and that would be the best way forward for the children of Sevenoaks.»

«If you spread grammar school places throughout the country and make them available to lots of disadvantaged children then you would give these disadvantaged children the same opportunity to get an academic education.»

Plans to fund free transport for disadvantaged pupils to grammar schools could leave councils and schools out of pocket, with one Oxfordshire councillor warning that the move could cost up to # 5,000 a child in taxi fares.

Commenting on the Education Select Committee's report on the Government's case for creating new grammar schools, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «The Government has failed to provide evidence that more selection in schools will improve education for all children and not harm the majority.

Nick Gibb: Fine, well this isn't about me, this is about ensuring that future generations of children - unlike me incidentally, who was not taught grammar at primary school...