Sentences with phrase «primary school conversions»
There are some interesting models developing to encourage primary school conversions, including forming primary academy clusters with shared management and forging symbiotic relationships with neighbouring secondary academies.
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The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, is balloting members in 13 primary schools in Birmingham which are being threatened with forced conversion to academy status.
Carter suggested that primary schools and small schools would struggle more with the conversion than larger secondary schools, as they require greater support to tackle issues such as maternity cover.
If several primary schools are combining to convert together, choosing to form a new Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) as the conversion vehicle will add a significant additional dimension of change to the shape and function of the individual schools» management teams just when resources will be stretched by the demands of the conversion process.
Harry Ziman, chair of governors at Kelsall Primary School, in Cheshire, summed up the benefits by saying that: «Academy conversion is the best thing that has ever happened to this school.&School, in Cheshire, summed up the benefits by saying that: «Academy conversion is the best thing that has ever happened to this school.&school.»
Firstly, a little history to set the scene; September 2012 saw the start of the conversion process for Battle Primary School, a Reading school with a long history of underachievSchool, a Reading school with a long history of underachievschool with a long history of underachievement.
Five Catholic primary schools applied for conversion to join St John the Baptist multi-academy trust in the east of England, and were all approved.
As we embark upon a new academic year at Battle Primary Academy, it is an opportunity to, once again, reflect upon the changes that have taken place at the school since our January 2013 conversion.
With so many secondary schools already converted, and with the many primary schools unsuitable for conversion, it's «unclear» how feasible further academisation of large numbers will be.
Academy conversion has in some instances been reported to us as diverting school leaders from the immediate priorities of improving teaching, and the changes in financial and business management can place a strain on primary schools if done at the same time as the federation itself.
Nor did the PTE note the anger of Professor Stephen Machin, one of the authors of the LSE report, that their findings had been «wrongly used» to support the conversion of «better than average» schools including primaries (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/apr/09/labour-academies-research-coalition-programme).