Sentences with phrase «of primary school places»

A rise in the number of pupils and a shortage of primary school places has led some councils to consider turning empty shops and playing fields into classrooms.

They're being dubbed «super-primaries», schools with more than 1,000 pupils, and there are growing numbers of them in England as councils try to tackle the lack of primary school places.

Here in Kingston, we've had a severe shortage of primary school places since the Sep 2008 reception intake.

Parents across England are going to find whether they have their preferred choice of primary school place.

There are also concerns about a shortage of primary school places in the next few years in some areas, with London predicting a shortfall of about 70,000 over the next four years.

But new garden village, Dunton Hills, set to be built near Brentwood in Essex, is in an area where just 7.3 per cent of primary school places were unfilled in 2015.

«It is extraordinary that at a time when the shortage of primary school places amounts to nothing short of a national crisis that the government is persisting with the folly of its free school policy,» she said.

But some, particularly in London, are starting to voice their concerns about a possible shortfall of primary school places around England.

A Dorset town faces a shortage of primary school places caused by a «dramatic increase» in births since 2005.

Ed Miliband was asking about education policy, and claims of larger class sizes and he said there would be a lack of primary school places.

However, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg has blamed Michael Gove's decision to end primary school building for the expected shortage of primary school places.

UKIP's education spokesman Paul Nuttall said the only truth in Tristram Hunt's speech was about the «shameful shortage of primary school places».

Earlier this year, Sutton Council in London called on the government to lift the limit on infant class sizes, saying this would help deal with the shortage of primary school places.