Sentences with phrase «primary schools fairer»

The rationale for the assessment is to make accountability of primary schools fairer.

Not exact matches

A fair amount of religious intolerance circulates through Qatari primary and secondary schools.

Do we send her to the same school as Sausage and tie ourselves into another 7 years of commuting a fair distance, send her to a primary closer to home and deal with very awkward school runs for a year (with both of them needing to be in different schools at the same times in the morning) or maybe even home educate BB for reception year until we know where Sausage will be going for secondary.

The fact check provides a fair and nuanced picture of achievement levels in English primary and secondary schools, and specifically the gap in achievement between richer and poorer students.

While the Council continues to monitor the demand for primary and secondary school places and works with all schools to mitigate unexpected high demand so that wherever possible pupils can attend their preferred school, Council Leader Adam Paynter said he was concerned that the increasing demand for places signalled fairer funding was need for Cornwall's schools.

â $ œThe primary goal of journalists is to give fair, accurate and unbiased reports of news events that will be of interest to the public, â $ says study author Arshya Vahabzadeh, MD, resident psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine.

The experts at EduStaff have drawn up the infographic below to offer a fun - but - fair look at the «anatomy» of a typical primary school teacher.

A consistent focus on student engagement within and across AL projects at CPAHS has been influenced by Munns, Sawyer and Cole's Teachers for a Fair Go3, an action research project on student engagement among low - SES primary school students in Sydney's South West.

According to the DfE, the activity - based assessment will enable better, fairer measures of primary school performance by capturing the progress teachers help pupils to make from the first weeks of reception all the way through to the end of year 6.

Some would say that in mainstream schooling there is not enough information provided about apprenticeships and that is something colleges such as ourselves are trying to change, from attending exhibitions and careers fairs to taking part in talks not only with secondary school pupils but primary too.

In contrast, 85 % of primary schools with officers present said these officers were on site at some point during school hours, while smaller majorities said officers were at school when students were arriving or leaving (67 %) or at selected school activities, such as science fairs or athletic events (60 %).

CentreForum stresses that if pupil progress does become the main measure for school accountability, assessments for children at the start of their primary school journey must be «valid, fair and reliable».

«The Christmas Fair at Keresley Newland Primary Academy was a joyful event with the school hall full to bursting with staff, parents and pupils all in the festive spirit.

For secondary schools this includes invitations to enrichment events such as out Overseas University Fair, and for primary schools includes the opportunity to have Sixth Form volunteers support in their schools for an afternoon.

This quick, simple assessment will us help to capture the progress that children make throughout primary school and provides a fairer measure for school accountability.

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.

However, while some authorities run area - wide tests that pupils can take in their primary schools, nine schools in the London borough of Southwark require prospective pupils to take their own fair banding tests.

January has been a busy month for our network of schools — from record participation in the BT Young Scientist Awards and RDS Primary Science Fair to a letter writing campaign to the Minister of Education.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

As a primary school teacher I acknowledge the benefits of accountability for the education system, but worry on a personal level about its fair implementation.

Every single one of Connecticut's major charter schools is even more segregated than the school districts that they serve and as proof of their use of de facto segregation, every charter school, along with Perry's own Capital Prep., fails to enroll or maintain their fair share of Hispanic students, students that aren't fluent in English or students that go home households where English is not the primary language.

If you are an educational institution (school, university etc.) and distribution is only to enrolled students, it's probably fair use - if your primary object is commercialization it probably isn't.

Her entry «Create a fun fair at Christie Downs Primary where I mentor KickStart for Kids» has won because of its focus on the whole school community.