Sentences with phrase «want more pupils»

«We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, which is why we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

A Department for Education spokesperson said grammar schools provided «a good education for their disadvantaged pupils», adding: «we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that».

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, and we want more pupils from lower - income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

Minister for School Standards Nick Gibb said: «Poor numeracy still costs the UK a staggering # 20 billion every year and we want more pupils to feel confident using numbers as it can open up a wide range of options for future study, training and work.

Not exact matches

Stan Kroenke has dollar signs for pupils, he wants to make arsenal a cash rich part of his portfolio, so that it becomes an even more tempting magnet for would be buyers.

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

«We want to see schools use the pupil premium far more effectively,» children's minister David Laws told the Today programme.

Mr Kennedy said he wanted to maximise «real choice» in education, which meant freeing up the curriculum so it was responsive to the needs of all pupils, whether academic or more vocationally - inclined.

Drawing from a sample of 1,450 parents, half of all respondents answered that they'd like to see photographs and videos on their child's school website, and 38 per cent wanted to see more pupil content.»

«We want to encourage more pupils to study this new high - quality course.

That's why I want schools to ensure they are supporting more able pupils as well.

There is more than enough for high ability pupils to get through in one lesson but you may want to make it two lessons.

In addition to this, it revealed that the government still wants to see the «top 25 per cent pupils» in comprehensive schools, with the new selective schools having a smaller ability range of «more like top 10 per cent».

With the direct link between Pupil Premium funding for your school and registration for free school meals, this course is invaluable if you want to secure additional funding for your pupils who most need it, but more fundamentally, to make sure they also get the benefits of good school food.

One language teacher explained how her pupils were more motivated by learning to say what they wanted to express in their own words, using the language being taught, instead of a list of pre-prescribed words.

This cross-school approach embeds basic science concepts and improves educational outcomes because everyone — both pupils and teachers — want to discuss what they have seen and done, and are left eager for more.

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

The researchers are urging any secondary schools who have noticed problems in their pupils such as over-tiredness and want to look at ways to support their pupils - by improving their alertness and mental wellbeing - to get in touch via the website (see Read More link below).

«If we want to match standards in some of the world - leading nations and secure greater equity in our education system, more must be done to raise the attainment of our lowest, and often most vulnerable, pupils.»

Pupils themselves actually want social media sites to intervene; I often hear children say they've reported content but it's taken a long time to be taken down, so we need to see much more transparency from these sites about their thresholds and processes for reporting.

Being able to use the itslearning platform to communicate and engage with pupils and parents is incredibly useful and the accessibility aspect is very important too, as it means that pupils can learn when they want to — something that pupils expect more and more in the 21st century.

Do you want to include more whole novels in your teaching in order to fire pupils» imagination and to support raising standards?

We also want to highlight the more positive and creative aspects of the internet, and are looking forward to demonstrating how we use digital technology and content to bring our lessons to life, and boost pupil engagement and attainment.»

But the committee wanted more sharing of how pupil premium money could be used most efficiently.

Ministers are considering ending requirements that schools gain local - authority permission to enlarge and hold a public consultation if they want to add more than 27 pupils a year.

Kent councillors want grammar schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds at the expense of children from outside the county

The government wants to allow successful academies, including grammar schools, to take on more pupils and is consulting on changes.

But if you want to halve the achievement gap in GCSEs, all you need are six more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds passing per school.

Leading figures from the special educational needs community have backed calls for a «bill of rights» to protect pupils excluded from school, but want it to be more than just a «tick - box» exercise.

«Pupils in grammar schools make significantly more progress relative to their similarly - able peers,» he said, adding that ministers wanted to ensure that children from disadvantaged backgrounds «have the opportunity to benefit from selective schools».

If you want to halve the achievement gap in GCSEs, all you need are six more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds passing per school

Leading figures from the special educational needs community have backed calls for a «bill of rights» to protect pupils excluded from school, but want it to be more...

But Labour warned that he risked creating a «two - tier education system» where the requirements of academic pupils are put ahead of those wanting to pursue more vocational courses.

But both Theresa May and Justine Greening, the education secretary, have claimed they do not want to see a return to the «binary system» of grammar schools and secondary moderns of the 1950s, and have unveiled plans to force selective schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds.

We wanted to get behind the averages, to go deeper and more granular, to find out which groups of EAL pupils are at greatest risk of not doing well at school.

Previous research by the Sutton Trust indicated almost three - quarters (73 %) of teachers saw reduced class sizes as a top priority in the use of the pupil premium, and nearly half (44 %) wanted more teaching assistants.

«We want to see that trend continue into secondary school and are already seeing encouraging signs following the introduction of the Ebacc, with thousands more pupils studying languages to GCSE, a number we expect to rise.»

School leaders want MPs to fight the government's «grossly unfair and discriminatory» Progress 8 measure that will award three times more points to pupils moving between top grades...

They want the state to invest more money into the state per pupil expenditure.

One teacher, who did not want to be identified, told me that her Muslim pupils had become more careful about what they talk about for fear of being referred through Prevent.

With a belief that education is much more than just attainment, at Astrea we ask that our staff are committed to «educate not just school»; encouraging pupils to be resilient, empathetic, aspirational, happy and with a want to contribute.

The top four suggestions for tasks that teachers wanted to spend more time on, in order improve teaching and learning, were: lesson planning, sourcing / creating resources, one - to - one feedback for pupils, collaborative time with colleagues.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «The Sutton Trust itself has highlighted the positive impact grammar schools can have on pupils from less well - off backgrounds and that's exactly why we want more young people to benefit.

We wanted to give our long - standing School Council a new lease of life, making pupil feedback and involvement more meaningful and so, when talking to the pupils about the KAR plan, I used this time to launch our Junior Leadership Team (JLT).

At present the maximum loss is -1.5 % per pupil per year, but it could get worse if government wants to speed up the movement of funds to schools that need more funding.

School leaders want MPs to fight the government's «grossly unfair and discriminatory» Progress 8 measure that will award three times more points to pupils moving between top grades than those at the bottom of the scale.

wants more state power to take over persistently failing schools and districts, and released a report Thursday detailing per - pupil costs in 178 of the most troubled schools statewide.

Lecturers want «less predictable» A-level exams, fewer re-sits and questions which are more open - ended and which would make pupils think for themselves.