Sentences with phrase «secondary academies»

About 70 % of secondary academies are known as «converter» academies - and these schools were usually doing well before they became academies.

Moreover, the proportion of academy chains returning above average levels of attainment for disadvantaged students in sponsored secondary academies has fallen since 2013 with only a small minority of chains showing steady improvement.

The data, originally from the school workforce census, shows as many as 240 secondary academy teachers earning more than the figure.

The data indicates that 400 secondary academy heads were earning in excess of # 100,000, compared with 300 working in other state secondary schools.

There is some evidence that sponsored secondary academies have had a positive effect on pupil performance, as the examples below indicate.

With more than 24 years of professional experience, Mr. Starling has been responsible for dropout prevention initiatives, program evaluation and development of high school and adult workforce programs; design and implementation of secondary academies for Bradford County Schools; and grants management.

«The additional pay deregulation and flexibilities in academies in England has led to the gap in primary academies between men and women being over # 4,700 and in secondary academies over # 3,200.

From 2003 - 06, SoundOut partnered with Secondary Academy for Success in Bothell, Washington, to integrate students into their school improvement planning process.

This could be explored through the performance of secondary academies over a longer timeframe (e.g. five years or more), and of primary academies, including a comparison with non-academy schools with similar characteristics, and their impact on different pupil groups.

Gipsy Hill Secondary Academy is being proposed by a federation of primary schools in south London.

Pupil performance was also the reason for intervention in Greenwood Academies Trust schools Kingswood secondary academy in Corby and Weston Favell academy in Northampton, and at Oasis Community Learning Trust's Wintringham academy, Grimsby.

He was the founding principal of Aspire Public Schools» Alexander Twilight College Prep Academy, serving grades K - 5, and of Alexander Twilight Secondary Academy, serving grades 6 - 12.

The letter describes AET's secondary academies as «mediocre» and claimed that the trust's impact on raising standards has not been effective, with only 41 per cent rated good or better.

The # 20 million redevelopment project by Wates Construction comprised a new single ‑ storey SEN school and a three - storey secondary academy.

Different priorities In primary education academies see the «lowest cost» of the product of key importance or very important (81 per cent), while in secondary academies rapid and easy ordering and delivery is the key or very important factor (77 per cent).

There are some interesting models developing to encourage primary school conversions, including forming primary academy clusters with shared management and forging symbiotic relationships with neighbouring secondary academies.

Thanks to Aspire Alexander Twilight College Secondary Academy, that's no longer the case.

The greater size and capacity of most secondary schools means that the picture here is less pronounced, but the trend is heading in the same direction, with close to half of secondary academies now part of MATs.

Heron Hall secondary academy will offer four spare classrooms on its # 40 million site to house 60 reception pupils from One Degree academy, an all - through school, after delays with the permanent site for the latter.

Taunton Academy in Somerset meanwhile received # 213,000 via nearby secondary academy Uffculm School in Devon.

Management researchers Alex Hill and Ben Laker analysed data from 411 leaders at 160 failing secondary academies, and found 62 heads whose methods steadily improved GCSE results and fostered a healthy budget.

And Rosemary Pritchard, deputy headteacher at St Margaret Ward Catholic secondary academy in Stoke - on - Trent, said pupils» behaviour had improved since staff were trained in emotion coaching and pupils learnt about the basic neuroscience of emotion.

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The scheme has the full support of United Learning's secondary academies south director Dame Sally Coates, despite her having previously spoken out in Schools Week about «underhand» tactics used by some schools to select pupils.

Sir David said that his board had met twice, each time focusing on GCSE results among secondary academies for signs of under - performance.

For the most able pupils, only 54 per cent across the trust achieved a B or above in English and mathematics, placing it h out of 14 among large secondary MATs (a chain containing eight or more secondary academies) on this measure.

It seems there are two main options They could compel mats to take on schools, though the prospect of mainly secondary Academies taking on massed ranks of primaries, whilst everyone knows that no one wants this outcome, looks particularly unappealing.

As previously, we included chains in our analysis only if they had at least three academies in 2015, and at least two sponsored secondary academies for a three year period from September 2012 — sufficient time for the sponsor chain to impact performance.

Among the proposals to be submitted will be New Croydon Academy, with a focus on science and technology, and Gipsy Hill Secondary Academy, where a group of primary schools in south London want to set up a secondary school.

Two of its secondary schools — Kingswood Secondary Academy in Corby and Weston Favell Academy in Northampton — were issued with pre-termination warning notices earlier in the year by the Education Funding Agency.

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Additionally, the letter condemned «unacceptably low» attendance and criticised the trust's work to tackle weak leadership, saying it has had little impact on improving performance in secondary academies.

For the secondary phase, the lowest proportion of academies can be found in the North of England at 52 per cent, with South - West England also having the highest proportion of secondary academies at 76 per cent.

In addition to this, seven warning notices were issued to secondary academies, three of which were converter academies, while four ere sponsored academies.

Following this assessment, the county council worked with Simon Balle School, a secondary academy, to bring forward proposals for a primary phase on its existing site.

Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) is a not - for - profit multi-academy trust, sponsoring over 31 primary and secondary academies, since 2008.

The AET is proposing to cut the number of buildings and estates staff in schools by over 25 per cent, resulting in at least 34 redundancies across its 66 primary, special and secondary academies.

Councils have stated that the compulsory curriculum should be rolled out in secondary academies and free schools to reduce the amount of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) diagnosed in younger people later in life.

The trust has suffered criticism from Ofsted this past year, with a letter in February saying AET was was failing too many pupils, with «mediocre» secondary academies, unacceptably low attendance and poor children doing particularly badly.

«The move to become a secondary academy for students aged 11 to 16 has been really positive and we are all excited about the year ahead.

This is the last year of GCSE s at the school before it becomes Sharnbrook Academy, a secondary academy and sixth form for students aged 11 to 18, at the start of next term.

However, in the studies we looked at, a majority of converter and sponsored academies report that they give support to other schools, and secondary academies, larger academies and converter academies are more likely to do this.

Additionally, the differences between primary and secondary academies and academies in different academy chains add to the complexity.

Winner: Ormiston Academies Trust Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) is a not - for - profit multi-academy trust, sponsoring over 31 primary and secondary academies, since 2008.

Secondary academies are the most likely to collaborate on purchasing furniture (26 per cent) and ICT (26 per cent).

SchoolDash created a sample of secondary academies and local authority schools with similar characteristics to see how their exam results compare.

The school will be led by the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership, an established provider of primary and secondary academies, which already runs four schools in Bath, Bristol and Cheshire.