Sentences with phrase «pupils at grammar schools»

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.

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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.

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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.

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 %.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yet of the state school pupils securing a place at Cambridge in 2015, 682 came from sixth - forms in comprehensive schools and 589 from grammar schools; in other words, almost as many come from the 163 grammar schools as come from all the 11 - 18 comprehensive schools put together.

Even though grammar schools are only found in 36 of 152 council areas, more than 40 per cent of pupils nationally are within a «reasonable travel distance» of at least one grammar school.

The lowest progress 8 score for disadvantaged pupils at flagship schools was at Colyton Grammar School in Devon, which scored -2.75.