Sentences with phrase «pupils longer school days»

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And for secondary schools we're going to fund longer school days for those that want to offer their pupils a wider range of activities, including extra sport.

Being a boarding school, with all our pupils having a longer day,

Schools raise extra funds through government grants and community donations, which allows them to spend on average an additional $ 1,100 to $ 1,500 per pupil above and beyond usual school costs for longer school days, weeks and years and for annual field trips and costly facilities.

Royal Docks Academy in east London is open from 9 am to midday on Saturdays, including the holidays, and has a longer school day under a new plan to give pupils a «quiet space to work» and improve standards.

White working - class children need schools with incentives to attract high - quality teachers and longer days to allow pupils to do their homework, says a cross-party committee of MPs.

It also operates a longer school day, with the school staying open until 4:45 pm to allow pupils to take up an extensive range of extra-curricular activities.

But, more importantly, this must surely now trigger exam - day monitoring from the Standards and Testing Agency, and begin a series of other checks to ensure these schools, many of which will have been rated «outstanding» a long time ago and left without further monitoring, are adequately preparing their pupils for the future.