Sentences with phrase «pupils reaching level»

The commissioner said the number of pupils reaching level four or above in reading, writing and maths had fallen by 20 % and was «significantly below the floor standard».

Not exact matches

The league tables show schools with «a religious ethos» make up 62 % of the schools that reached the government's targets for pupil's levels of reading, writing and maths.

The success in reaching over 9000 pupils last year is thanks, in large part, to the many partners across the UK who have helped us by showing schools how to use the inspiring model of astronaut fitness and health to change children's activity levels and diet through learning about the science behind it.»

Schools have felt forced to meet floor targets by pushing the average pupils to Level 4 and have not always had the resources, despite hard work and the best intentions, to sufficiently support pupils requiring additional help in basic skills who may never reach Level 4.

«As it is nothing more than an unnecessary performance measure, not a qualification, the select committee is quite right to say that any attempts to provide formal certificates to pupils who reach its attainment levels must be stopped.

Last summer, 67.4 % of disadvantaged pupils achieved this level, with 83.5 % of other pupils reaching this «expected» level in 2014.

Since 2010, it has increased by eight percentage points - equivalent to 46,000 more pupils reaching the expected levels.

The BESA Leadership Briefing report showed that 38 per cent of primary school pupils and 20 per cent of secondary - level students will continue to suffer from poor internet access in 2016, meaning that a great deal of superb and helpful resources for computing, such as Espresso Coding, 2Simple's 2Code and J2e's J2Code will remain out of reach no matter what they cost.

The highest ever percentage of pupils reached the expected level in maths, at 87 per cent - up one percentage point on last year.

I use this for Yr 7 and Yr 8 - levels are clearly referred to so pupils know what they need to be doing in order to reach each level.

levels are clearly referred to so pupils know what they need to be doing in order to reach each level.

As a result, total per - pupil expenditures on education reached a near all - time high in the recession school year of 2009 — 10, climbing (in constant dollars) to $ 13,154 from a $ 12,520 level in 2005 — 06.

«We need a system that funds schools according to the needs of their pupils rather than their postcode, levelling the playing field and giving parents the confidence that every child will have an equal opportunity to reach their full potential.»

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.

Despite this, achievement of pupils has reached exceptional levels.

Meanwhile, per - pupil spending reached $ 13,355 in 2002 - 03, compared with a national average of less than $ 10,000 a year, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics, although, unlike other school systems, the District figures include the equivalent of both state - level and local education spending.

As there are clear benefits to be gained to children's health, wellbeing and academic achievement from being physically active it is essential for schools to encourage their pupils to be more active and reach the minimum levels set out by the Chief Medical Officer.

Andrea Carr, managing director of Rising Stars, said «In the absence of national curriculum levels, schools are looking for alternative ways to track pupil progress during the primary years to ensure that as many children as possible reach or exceed what is expected by the end of each Key Stage.

Members of the EIS are also concerned the publication of data which shows the curriculum levels pupils have reached will encourage unfair comparisons between different schools.

According to the DfE figures, 768 schools failed to reach what is known as the floor target of 65 % of pupils gaining at least Level 4 in formal reading and maths tests, combined with an informal teacher assessment of children's writing abilities.

The Department for Education recognises grade 4 as a «standard pass»; this is the minimum level that pupils need to reach in English and maths (previously a «C»).

Mastery teaching approaches, where teachers aim for all pupils to reach a «minimum (but high)» level of knowledge of the same content, was also found in «the most successful schools» and should be increasingly used in primary schools.

These provisional results show the rising achievements of pupils at the end of primary school - represented in terms of those reaching the expected Level 4 in maths, reading and writing.

Just as with the C / D borderline at GCSE, there was an incentive for primary schools to focus on children who were just in reach of the level 4 threshold and a risk that pupils already meeting the standard were neglected.

The new tests for pupils in their last year of primary school will cover maths, reading, grammar, punctuation and spelling, and children will be expected to reach a higher level than currently.

The study said: «Primary pupils said that classmates sometimes boasted about the levels that they had reached (I'm a 5b) or jeered at those who were less successful.»

Instead two new league - table measures will be introduced, examining the percentage of pupils who reach a set threshold in English and maths, and an average points score showing how much progress each child makes between the end of primary school and GCSE level in eight subjects.

«Despite pupils» and teachers» hard work, one in five pupils are still not reaching the expected level in either English or maths and over a third are not achieving this level in reading, writing and maths combined.»

In English, 81 % of pupils reached the expected level and in maths 80 % reached this level - both one percentage point higher than last year.

Although more pupils were now reaching expected levels in reading, writing and maths by the end of year six, inspectors said results remained below average in four of the trust's primary schools.

Improvements for disadvantaged pupils also continued, with 70 % reaching the expected level in the basics, up three percentage points on 2014.

Among pupils with English as an additional language, 77 % reached Level 4 in all three areas, while 21 % got a Level 5

Indeed, only Ark, Harris and the Diocese of Westminster have reached a level of better - than - average results for performance, once you account for pupils» prior academic results.

At the end of Key Stage 2, 78 % of Leicester's pupils reached the benchmark Level 4 against a national average of 80 %.

A total of 768 schools did not reach the government's floor standard for attainment — now set at 65 per cent of pupils achieving level 4 in reading and writing tests and teacher assessment of writing.

Last year just 66 % of those known to be eligible for free school meals reached the expected level in English and maths, compared with 82 % of all other pupils.

The floor target is set to increase further in future, with 85 per cent of pupils required to reach the equivalent of the higher level of 4b in reading, writing and maths from 2016.

Among all pupils of this age group, 84.7 % reached the expected level (Level 2) in reading, while 80.9 % achieved this in wrilevel (Level 2) in reading, while 80.9 % achieved this in wriLevel 2) in reading, while 80.9 % achieved this in writing.

The LNF sets out levels of achievement that pupils are expected to reach in reading, writing and maths skills.

Primary league tables show that 79 per cent of pupils reached the expected level in all of reading, writing and mathematics this year, against 75 per cent in 2013.

In other words, although the typical ESA student would receive only about one - fifth of the $ 18,216 that New Hampshire district schools spend per pupil, on average, the funding level would still put a wide variety of educational options within reach of the average Granite State family.

Mr Gibb said: «In spite of the hard work of teachers and pupils, today's results show that there are still too many seven - year - olds not reaching the expected level in these important subjects.

Nationally, 61 per cent of pupils have reached the expected levels, an improvement of last year's score of 53 per cent.

For example, if per pupil funding is frozen in cash terms, as it is now, and the minimum funding guarantee of -1.5 per cent remains in place, almost all schools will reach their formula level of funding by 2029 - 30.

Bearing in mind the raising of the expected standards and the fact that pupils have been studying this new curriculum for only two years, a lower percentage of pupils are likely to reach the all - important 100 mark than reached the old Level 4.