Closing the «gap» between disadvantaged and advantaged
pupils at grammar schools is easy.
In 2014 - 15, 96.7 per cent of
pupils at grammar schools got five or more GCSEs between grades A * and C, including English and maths, compared to 56.7 per cent at comprehensives.
The research, which also looks at GCSE attainment for
pupils at grammar schools, confirms that while grammar school pupils do score slightly higher at GCSE, it concludes that much of this can be explained by prior levels of attainment.
The research also looks at GCSE attainment for
pupils at grammar schools.
Senior Labour MP Lucy Powell published figures showing the capital had the biggest gap between the number of
pupils at grammars eligible for free school meals compared with the figure for the broader school population.
Just 2.3 per cent of
pupils at grammars in London, or 344 out of 14,724, were on free school meals as of this January, according to official figures.
Not exact matches
Mark, a
pupil at Carrick
Grammar School, is a central midfielder who says his favourite player is Cristiano Ronaldo because «he always has good skills and scores the most goals».
Grammar schools are state secondary schools, which select their
pupils by means of an examination taken by children
at age 11, known as the «11 Plus».
The media whirlwind began when newly appointed Education Secretary Justine Greening said the government should be «open minded» about the opening of new
grammar schools - state funded schools that select
pupils based on an examination
at age 11.
Additionally, the report advises that while
grammar school
pupils do score slightly higher
at GCSE, much of this is explained by prior levels of attainment, meaning that bright
pupils do just as well in the best comprehensives as they do in
grammars.
Schools should be ready to equip their
pupils with a strong set of digital skills to succeed in the workplace, says Aisling Hagan, senior teacher and director of e-learning
at St Mary's
Grammar School in Northern Ireland.
The same analysis also found that
pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend
grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths
at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a
grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.
Select one of the following modes: - Choose a particular
grammar domain or topic to revise - Random mode, giving you a mixture of all types of questions The SATs revision resource is perfect for teachers to use as morning work, lesson starters or revision sessions or alternatively for
pupils to practise independently
at school or
at home.
For parents, tutors and
pupils who'd like to try for
grammar or other selective school, each page has a full and friendly explanation of what to do and what tricks and traps to avoid, with sample questions to try
at the bottom of each page.
She said: «Teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state schools in the UK which are facing real - terms cuts in funding for their
pupils will be dismayed to see the Chancellor throwing more money
at free schools and
grammar schools.
It can be used as homework, internal assessment opportunity or simply to go over vocabulary and translation /
grammar with
pupils at the end of the topic.
They say 95 per cent of
pupils in Surrey are already
at good or outstanding schools, and that there is no evidence that
grammar schools have any positive impact on social mobility.
At Harrold Priory Middle School, in Harrold, 81 % of pupils achieved at least the expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS); in reading it was also 81 %; and in maths it was 70
At Harrold Priory Middle School, in Harrold, 81 % of
pupils achieved
at least the expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS); in reading it was also 81 %; and in maths it was 70
at least the expected standard in
grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS); in reading it was also 81 %; and in maths it was 70 %.
Grammar schools are controversial as they select all their
pupils on the basis of ability tests, known as the 11 - plus, which children take
at the age of 10 or 11.
Ellie Mulcahy, senior research associate
at education and youth think and action tank LKMco, said: «Even if these
grammar schools open up their entry to allow a proportion of disadvantaged
pupils to come in, that will be only for those who do well in the test, whether they've been coached or not.
For example,
grammar school
pupils tend to outperform
pupils of similar ability
at other types of schools where the ability range is more mixed.
We're looking very carefully
at our admissions code, which has already changed to allocate places for
pupil premium [additional funding for schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged
pupils] and other disadvantage indicators, and overcome the stigma from some families that
grammar schools are not for them.»
Boys from The Manchester
Grammar School provide support to
pupils at St Richard's Primary School in their maths lessons.
This partnership between The Manchester
Grammar School and St Mary's RC Primary School aims to support Year 3
pupils at St Mary's in their sports lessons by providing extra coaching.
The Blackden Trust is an educational charity, based in a Tudor Medicine House on a 10,000 year old site, that welcomes
pupils from The Manchester
Grammar School to look
at the past through a new persp...
The
Grammar School Heads Association said
grammars were
at the forefront of giving admissions priority to disadvantaged
pupils.
Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their
pupils by means of an examination taken by children
at age 11, known as the «11 - plus».
The aim is for
pupils from The Manchester
Grammar School to support children from Reception to Year 6
at Medlock Primary School with their reading and maths skills.
The Bexwyke Lecture is an annual event held
at The Manchester
Grammar School which involves
pupils from primary schools across the area visiting the School to hear from a high - profile speaker on a ran...
Researchers have known about this for some time and have been wrestling with how to measure the effect of
pupil clustering by ability —
at its most extreme in
grammar schools — without falling for phantoms (i.e. results caused by statistical error).
However today's report finds that
pupils from families who are «just about managing» — or JAMS — are also significantly under - represented
at grammar schools.
When I discuss our GCSE policy with young people who attended top comprehensive schools (and independent and
grammar schools), they take it for granted that
pupils study maths, English and science
at GCSE, alongside a foreign language and either history or geography.
Much of this question depends on what you mean by
grammar schools working, but you could look
at whether they work for the
pupils attending them and for the education system as a whole.
Weald of Kent
grammar school was granted permission to open an annexe for around 450
pupils at a site around seven miles away, in Sevenoaks, by former education secretary Nicky Morgan in October last year.
In Sevenoaks this September the first
pupils will arrive
at what is officially an annexe of the Weald of Kent
grammar school more than 10 miles away.
The same analysis for secondary schools shows
grammar schools, academically selective
at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent
pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some
grammar school advocates say they are.
(1) Furthermore, the attainment of
grammar school
pupils comes
at the expense of those who don't pass their 11 - plus, with
pupil attainment
at secondary moderns in areas with a selective education system lower than that of their counterparts in comprehensive schools.
Kent councillors want
grammar schools to take more
pupils from poorer backgrounds
at the expense of children from outside the county
They found that about 2 % of
grammar school
pupils were from low income families - on free school meals - compared with 12 % of
pupils at non-
grammar schools.
The report also looked
at the impact the academic selection of
grammar schools had on other schools that the
grammar pupils could have gone to.
The
Grammar School
at Leeds works with local schools to enable them to use their swimming facilities when not in use for their own
pupils.
Dr Lee Elliot Major, director of research
at the Sutton Trust, said the figures suggested that
grammars were not enrolling as many academically able
pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds as they could do.
His analysis found that books with «fairly simple» vocabulary and
grammar aimed
at younger school
pupils are still the most read by secondary school
pupils overall.
CEM, based
at Durham University, claimed its test was «tutor - proof», but analysis by campaign group Local Equal Excellent found the tests made little difference to the number of state school primary
pupils accessing
grammars.
Northern Ireland's consistently higher performance - it has improved again - has been put down to its system of selective schools, where
pupils are tested
at the age of 11 and the brighter ones get places
at grammar schools.
The policy is likely to prompt criticism from
grammar school critics, not least because it could adversely affect
pupil numbers, and therefore funding levels,
at comprehensive or secondary modern schools within 15 miles of selective schools.
It found that in
grammar schools in 2014/15, 97 per cent of non-disadvantaged
pupils and 93 per cent of disadvantaged
pupils achieved 5 A * - C grades
at GCSE including English and Maths, compared to 84 per cent of non-disadvantaged
pupils and 64 per cent of disadvantaged
pupils at the country's top comprehensive schools.
It will show the percentage of
pupils nationally working
at 100 in reading, maths and spelling and
grammar.
Although 96.7 per cent of
grammar school
pupils achieve five A * to C GCSEs against a national average of 57 per cent, the EPI says this is not evidence of better
grammar school performance, but is in fact likely to be driven by the high prior attainment and demographic of
pupils at selective schools.
The same data shows that the attainment of
pupils at secondary moderns — which are non-selective schools that exist alongside
grammar schools in areas which still have selection — is lower than that of comprehensive
pupils.