Sentences with phrase «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.

The quantity of teachers would also need to be increased, with an extra 1.6 million needed to provide enough primary school places.

What is more, the majority of these institutions are in the secondary phase, creating serious surplus capacity when there is a crying need for more primary school places.

But when you ask if there is now more pressure on primary school places, well that question goes quietly unanswered.

Councillor Henry Vann said, «The programme of works delivered by Scape and Willmott Dixon includes a mixture of bespoke primary schools which adopt a standardised approach, along with Connect classroom extensions and Sunesis schools to meet the growing demand for primary school places in the area.»

Akaal Primary School has no specific catchment area and meets the need for more primary school places for areas including Normanton, Pear Tree, Heatherton and Chellaston.

The UK needs extra primary school places.

«In recent years, a large number of additional primary school places have been provided to keep pace with demand, and as these pupils progress through the school system, we expect to see a significant need for additional secondary places in the next few years,» they added.

But Afghanistan, which has faced 35 years of conflict, is managing to reopen schools and the country's education minister told the BBC that a grassroots campaign will see all children having primary school places by 2020.

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

- With primary school places in short supply in many parts of the country, and parents struggling to get their children into a local school, can it really be a priority to open more free schools in 2015 and 2016 in areas with excess secondary school places?

Education Secretary Michael Gove says there is «definitely an issue» ensuring enough primary school places across the country, but that the government inherited a «terrible» situation from Labour.

«With a crisis in primary school places meaning we'll need an additional 240,000 places by 2015 where will the funds come from for this announcement?»

Almost half of school districts in England will have nearly twice as many pupils as available primary school places in two years, council leaders have warned.

County Councillor Arthur Barker said: «A housing development in Catterick Garrison, Richmondshire will, we anticipate, create the need for significant additional primary school places after 2018.

Commenting on the issue, Robert Snook, director and general manager of Portakabin Hire said: «High levels of international migration and increasing birth rates are putting acute pressure on primary school places nationwide, with particular rises in demand being seen in London, the South East and in the major cities such as Bristol and Birmingham.»

«Michael Gove is fooling nobody into thinking that he is taking the shortage in primary school places seriously.

It is an anxious day for parents all over England as the letters arrive allocating primary school places.

«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.

Labour's Tristram Hunt said they had «left primary school places in crisis».

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.

Separate figures have shown there are many unfilled primary school places in England - more than 444,000 - either where parents are shunning unpopular schools or local child numbers are falling.

Last year 95.9 % of parents received an offer at one of their top 3 preferred primary schools after the government created more than 400,000 new primary school places since 2010.

Two in five council areas in England will not have enough primary school places for the number of children by September 2016, say council leaders.

There is pressure on councils in England to find extra primary school places.

Two in five council areas in England will not have enough primary school places for the number of children by September 2016, council leaders have warned.

Councillor Nick Bennett said: «We are rising to the challenge of meeting the demand for additional primary school places and are looking at a range of options to meet that demand across the county.»

It is estimated that there is a shortage of a quarter of a million primary school places across England.

«Instead of focusing on the need for more primary school places, David Cameron's government has spent # 241m on free schools in areas that already have enough school places,» said shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

With the UK experiencing the largest increase in demand for primary school places since the 1950s, it is estimated that in the next two years, 250,000 new places will be needed in primary schools — 37 per cent in London alone.

The new international development secretary was a key figure in the leave campaign, criticising the government's record on immigration and warning that there was unsustainable pressure on primary school places.

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.

Some early figures are beginning to emerge, with the pan-London Admissions Scheme saying 103,329 pupils applied for primary school places in the capital this year - just 58 fewer than last year - «demonstrating that pressure on places remains strong».

- and not wasting money fragmenting the NHS, and other services, or on vanity schools projects, but focusing on the real needs in adult social care and primary school places - and bringing public services together to save money and improve services.

The savings, we're told, are «equivalent to almost # 600 for each working household across Britain, enough to fund three million primary school places or the building of 500 new secondary schools.»

And «half of districts with a high or severe forecast need for extra school places» have no application for primary school places.

There should be # 600 million over the next three years for 40,000 extra primary school places, although there's suspicion in Westminster that this is a re-announcement.

And we've seen incredible sums ploughed into pet projects - more than # 100 million spent on installing elected police commissioners — money that could have paid for 3,000 new police constables - # 600 million added to the free schools budget in November — money that could pay for the extra 100,000 primary school places we so desperately need - and # 1.8 billion set aside for the costs of NHS reorganisation — half of which would keep 6,000 nurses in post for three years

It would also mean # 7.6 bn of cuts to education, equivalent to 395,000 teachers, 393 new schools, or 2.8 million 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.

The furore over a looming primary school place crisis has intensified during the election campaign, with Labour accusing the Conservatives of causing a crisis in primary school places because of the high costs of their free schools policy.

Labour says that there is a primary school places «crisis» looming this September in England, following its own research.

An additional 336,000 primary school places will be needed by 2024.

In all, 300,000 primary school places have been created since May 2010 with many schools going to extraordinary lengths to ensure there is a place for every child, including increasing class sizes, diverting money from vital school repair programmes and converting non-classroom space, such as music rooms.

Nick Blackburn, chief executive of Heathfield Academy Trust, said: «Catterick is an area of local need and North Yorkshire County Council has indicated that there is expected to be a shortfall of 730 primary school places in the area.

«In March it was decided that the additional primary school places to serve the developments should be provided in the form of a new Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sponsor.

It claims councils have so far created an extra 300,000 primary school places but will face a new challenge as pupils reach secondary level.

Primary school places have been announced today (16 April) and government figures show that 97.2 per cent of pupils were offered one of their top three primary schools.