Sentences with phrase «older pupils in»

Arts - based approaches may offer a route to re-engage older pupils in learning, but this does not always translate into better attainment.

In particular, certain countries have strict laws regarding decency and conduct, and older pupils in particular may, in all innocence, fall foul of these laws.

Children were 9 — 10 - year - old pupils in a local elementary school.

The gap in achievement between 15 - year - old pupils in England in key subjects is one of the largest and most unequal among developed countries, a release of international test data showed.

The Flagship School — a parent - led special school to provide 56 places for 9 - to 6 - year - old pupils in Hastings, which was identified as an opportunity area earlier this year

Pisa - published by the OECD - compares the performances of 15 - year - old pupils in reading, maths and science over 58 nations.

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or Pisa tests examines the performance of 15 - year - old pupils in mathematics, science, and reading.

Not exact matches

A 15 - year - old pupil stabbed teacher Ann Maguire to death in a «completely irrational act stemming from a deep seated grudge», a senior detective has told the inquest into her death.

A drop in the number of pupils studying GCSE Religious Studies (RE) is being put down to some schools flouting the law and not teaching the subject to 15 and 16 - year - olds.

Research by the Education Policy Institute has found that just one in ten disadvantaged pupils in England score grade 7 - 9 (A-A * in old system) in GCSE maths.

The 14 year old's friend and fellow pupil at Castlebay Community School, Laura MacIntyre, remains in hospitals after being seriously injured in the suicide bombing.

-- The competition is only open to primary and secondary school pupils in the UK and entrants must be between 5 and 16 years old at the time of submission.

It also refuses to give older Scottish pupils the right to not participate in the sessions, as they have in England and Wales.

GBENGA ADENIJI and SIMON UTEBOR write about the hideous face of cultism which is dangerously polluting the academic milieu in the nation's public secondary schools Looking forlorn and weak, Miss Lillian Friday, a 16 - year - old pupil of Community Secondary School, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has yet to get over her -LSB-...]

Chux Ohai An eight - year - old female pupil of Liberty Bells School in Lekki, Lagos, Tamilore Aderibigbe, has been named as the Fun Tease Star of the Month.

Per - pupil funding levels should be adequate across all programs and settings — both school districts and community based organizations — in order to support high - quality pre-k for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and the state should establish a timeline for ensuring adequate resources while expanding access to all eligible children, particularly in high - need communities.

The vast majority (60 %) of pupils engaged in cyber bullying of their teachers were between 11 and 16 years old, but some were primary school pupils.

A 17 - year - old Junior High School pupil, [name withheld], is in police custody for allegedly killing his mother over his missing mobile phone memory card.

Success Nwogu, Ilorin While some of her mates are in school learning and playing, eight - year - old pupil of Bethel Nursery and Primary School (ECWA) in Ilorin, Asmau Abdulsalam, writhes in pains.

The new spelling and grammar test for eleven year olds has been prepared to an excellent standard, as set out in this technical paper, and the new provision for teaching multiplication tables by the age of eight, for most pupils as crucial to success in maths as phonics are to success in English, has not attracted the widespread criticism that our opponents expected.

The first pupils to embark on the mathematics National Curriculum as 5 - year - olds in 1989 will not complete it until they are 16 in 2000, before moving on to further and higher education.

«We know younger individuals have larger pupils, and their lenses are more transparent, so their exposure and sensitivity to that light is even greater than in older individuals.»

STRATFORDOBSERVER.CO.UK - Oct 30 - Former Stratford School pupil Jack Knowles founded dating app Temptr, which has been launched in 60 countries and is doing so well it is set to make the 28 - year - old a billionaire.

One of the boys was hit in Teacher struck off after relationship with 16 - year - old pupil he sent clip of him miming «I Will Always Love You» Disgraced history teacher David Fenwick

11 - year - olds «struggling in the three - Rs» More than 135,000 pupils left primary school this summer with a poor grasp of the three - Rs, despite a

This portrait of the pupils, teachers, and local environment of Norway House Cree Nation — a robustly successful school and community center in Manitoba, steered toward the needs of Native students and the hiring of Native faculty — represents the 85 - year - old Obomsawin's 50th feature, and she is already at work on the 51st.

A drop in pupils achieving a C or above was predicted before the results were released, due to the new policy that requires 17 year - olds to re-sit English and Maths if they got a D or lower the first time around.

This should be bolstered by a code of good practice, written in a way to ensure pupil understanding which, when they are old enough to appreciate its significance, they should be asked to sign.

71 % of all 16 to 18 - year - old pupils had heard words like «slut» or «slag» aimed at girls in school on a regular basis

I have only tested this material once in Norway with 15 - year - old pupils who have ESL, but it worked quite well as they were engaged and fascinated.

More able / Older pupils may be encouraged to record in writing using high level persuasive language.

However, Wilshaw said that bringing back the national tests for 14 - year - olds in England would help tackle the persistent underperformance among the most able pupils.

So when I recently learned that PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment, a worldwide evaluation of 15 - year - old school pupils» scholastic performance — and one of the main sources of concern over the state of reading, math, and science education in the US) had released an overview of performance in digital reading, navigation and computer use in 2009, I was excited.

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And it's no secret that educators are less happy being «held to account» for pupil results in the midst of all this change than they were under the old standards and tests (though many were plenty cranky on this topic before the standards changed!).

Adolph Gottlieb, in his sourced quotes on painting art and life; collected quotes give important information to students and older pupils.

Expressionism and its artists, shortly described and explained in clear quotes + selected art images, for art students, older pupils and maybe even for art teachers.

Caspar David Friedrich, his sourced quotes on painting and life in Romanticism, collected for students and older pupils; But also for teachers in art education; Friedrich's quotes give information directly from the artist himself about his painting art in German Romanticism.

Arshile Gorky, in sourced quotes of the American artist on his painting art and artistic life, collected for students and older pupils; but also for teachers in art education.

Surrealism, described in quotes of the famous Surrealist artists André Breton, Dali, Jean Arp, Miro, Marcel Duchamp; it is useful study material in art education, for students, teachers and older pupils.

One Room, Many Lessons: Pupils in Amy Ponte's third - grade class take on «old» names as they learn to embroider.

Both the RSA Academy in Tipton and Penrice Community College will start services that will involve using the schools premises for volunteer pupils and older adults to engage in skills swap classes.

At a higher level, more experienced or older pupils can be expected to go about the activity in an organised, systematic way.

Manor College of Technology, built in 1966, is to have # 14m spent on it, while the work at 50 - year - old Barnard Grove site is costing # 2.8 m. Students at the 1,250 - capacity Manor College will benefit from a new three ‑ storey «super block» with updated teaching facilities and a specialist block for 30 pupils with learning difficulties, as well as a major refurbishment of the sports hall and a new multi-use games area.

Schools with pupils classed as «deprived» in publically funded non-mainstream settings including Special Schools, General Hospital Schools, Pupil Referral Units and 14 - 15 year olds in Further Education (FE) Colleges will also attract a Premium of # 600 per annum.

Pupils watching will witness a re-enacted Tudor lesson, and be among the first to «step inside» the newly renovated 600 year old building, described by historian Michael Wood as «one of the most atmospheric, magical and important in the whole of Britain.»

Only 10 per cent of London pupils could match the maths skills of the average Shanghai 15 year - old, with pupils in Hong Kong, Maastricht, Helsinki, Milan, the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and the US states of Massachusetts and Connecticut consistently outperforming London pupils in maths, science and reading.

The study examined 15 year - olds educated in both private and state schools and found that they were approximately six months behind pupils in Asia and wealthy parts of North America and Europe, with pupils in Shanghai being as much as three years further ahead in maths.

For example, recruit pupils for extra-curricular groups; arrange extra rehearsals; follow up on interests shown in the classroom (eg finding a child who is learning the guitar at home, informally, and getting them involved in a school group); produce a programme for the school concert which includes every child's name; liaise with other staff members (eg with the Art Department to provide a cover for said programme); organise refreshments; run a Parent Support Group for music; arrange for matching T - shirts for the jazz band or school choir; deliver a «sponsored sing» for charity; visit an old people's home to perform for the residents; and a host of other things which make for «a musical school».

We've worked with schools with no budget, using older furniture in a new and creative way, to those raising thousands of pounds for a full overhaul designed by their pupils.