Sentences with phrase «primary school attainment»

The map above and the table below show how primary school attainment varies between England's mainstream local authorities.

The North is headed in the right direction; thanks to the hard work and expertise of local authorities in the North, the region already performs well in terms of primary school attainment.

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The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

They also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

«By investing in our education system and providing free school meals for every primary school child, we will remove the stigma attached to free school meals, and improve health and attainment for all children.»

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

The report has recommendations in eight areas, each designed to support primary and secondary schools to close the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their classmates.

The New Schools Network (NSN) has raised doubts over the accuracy of Ofsted's judgements, after analysis found that a third of primaries given top ratings actually failed to meet the national average for Key Stage 2 attainment.

In Florida, grade configuration is not a primary driver of the estimated positive effects of charter high schools on attainment.

Improving Maths in Key Stages 2 and 3 has recommendations in eight areas, each designed to support primary and secondary schools to close the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their classmates.

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.

Studying the association between academy status for primary and secondary schools and their pupils» attainment in the Key Stage 2 tests and GCSE exams from last year, NFER claims that there is no significant difference between the performance of primary academies and maintained schools.

Aimed at bridging the attainment gap for students, Progress 8 will capture the progress a student makes from the end of primary school to the end of secondary school, and as such level the playing field for all students.

«So while it is good to see that primary schools» hard work is likely to yield improvements in GCSE English and maths in the next five years, the slow progress in tackling the overall GCSE attainment gap shows there is a lot still to do.»

Reading skills The report provides evidence of successful programmes to boost reading skills in primary schools, and shows that targeted support for children who struggle to read in primary school can have a lasting impact on their educational attainment.

Its digital learning platform, based upon the popular children's story, is successfully raising the attainment of primary school children by inspiring them to be creative through writing.

There is no conclusive evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools.

Initial research by the SMF found that regional differences in attainment were already apparent by the end of primary school and are observable even when you control other factors such as ethnicity and income.

The results show that GCSE results are not consistent with primary school tests, as the attainment gap between the north and south for primary results is just 1.1 per cent.

Richmond Hill, led by Head Teacher Nathan Atkinson, joined forces with the Real Junk Food Project to provide free breakfasts to all 600 pupils at the primary school and found that this had a positive effect on their behaviour, concentration and attainment.

Secondary schools were significantly more likely than primary schools to say that PE and sport contributed to pupils» attainment, attendance, behaviour and truancy and integration within the school, while primary schools were more likely to say that it contributed to parental engagement.

Slimbridge Primary School «The Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils project has really helped to boost the interest, enthusiasm and attainment of my class.»

Improving the attainment of children in mathematics is a founding aim of the EEF and we have funded trials of many projects in this area in both primary and secondary schools, as well as in early years and post-16 settings.

It looks at how much progress pupils make on the new Attainment 8 measure compared to pupils with the same starting point, recorded at the end of primary school.

The Kalamazoo Promise was funded by anonymous donors who, according to the school district, had three primary goals: 1) to promote local economic and community development, in part by attracting parents and businesses to the Kalamazoo area; 2) to boost educational achievement and attainment; and 3) to increase confidence in KPS.

They also believe that children in care, who statistically have considerably lower attainment scores than their peers, could be lowering the published outcomes of primary schools in the areas where numbers have dramatically increased.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said it was good news to see the attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged primary school pupils narrow.

Progress and Attainment 8 measure how a student progresses through secondary school, taking into account their ability at the end of primary school.

The Bolton School Level 6 Mathematics Programme was originally set up to allow talented and ambitious Year 6 pupils from local state primary schools to gain access to specialist mathematics tuition in an attempt to raise attainment in their SATs examinations.

In terms of the international context, the report says that schools in England already have unusually big primary class sizes for a developed country - but suggested that there was no clear correlation between average class size and attainment.

Sturgeon said she was taking the right steps, including releasing # 11m for the Scottish government's attainment challenge fund, which was focusing on improving standards and education at 300 primary schools with the poorest outcomes.

«By investing in our education system and providing free school meals for every primary school child, we will remove the stigma attached to free school meals, and improve health and attainment for all children.»

The first will see 14 primary schools get extra help to tackle low attainment in reading by boosting vocabulary across a wide range of subjects.

Primary schools are expected to meet an attainment threshold of 65 per cent of pupils achieving the national standard in reading, writing and maths, as well as making sufficient progress in all three subjects.

But primary school deputy headteacher, Michael Tidd, carried out a brief Twitter poll for his followers and found out that of the 200 people who responded, just one third met the attainment floor standard.

Examining the effect of class size on classroom engagement and teacherepupil interaction: Differences in relation to pupil prior attainment and primary vs. secondary schools by Peter Blatchford, Paul Bassett, Penelope Brown

The report also stated a strength in primary schools was the impact of better teaching on the learning of pupils eligible for free school meals, which Ofsted attributed to helping to close the attainment gap between these pupils and their peers.

But when most variables are controlled for, it looks like improvements attainment in primary school between 1999 and 2003 were a huge factor in increasing attainment in secondary schools.

The Level 6 Mathematics Programme was originally set up to allow talented and ambitious Year 6 pupils from local state primary schools to gain access to specialist mathematics tuition in an attempt to raise attainment in their SATs examinations.

«There is at present no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools,» says the report.

However, Labour's Iain Gray used his speech to attack the attainment fund as «inadequate», instead proposing a «fair start fund» which would allocate # 1,000 to primary school pupils from deprived backgrounds.

Attendees included NumberFit, which aims to improve attainment in maths, Ashoka, which identifies «Changemaker Schools» that prioritise empathy and teamwork skills, primary school literacy programme Tales Toolkit, and careers education programme Talentino.

«The [free school meals pilot] report made the observation that the [academic] results were hardly startling, and if your primary aim was to improve academic attainment, there are plenty of other things you could have done that were better value.»

In a separate study Dr Mairead Dunne, lecturer in education at Sussex, led a project that analysed grouping practices in 168 primary and secondary schools and found that working - class pupils are more likely to be placed in lower sets than middle - class pupils who have the same test results, and that pupils from middle - class backgrounds more likely to be assigned to higher sets, irrespective of their prior attainment.

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The attainment gap grows wider at every stage of education: it is already evident when pupils begin school, growing to 9.5 months by the end of primary school, and then more than doubling to 19.3 months by the end of secondary school

Assessment of academic skills in the student's primary language demonstrates that the school values prior literacy attainment.