Sentences with phrase «years pupils in»

The allocations of over # 4.6 million secured by the Welsh Liberal Democrats to support early years pupils in Wales from disadvantaged backgrounds have been announced.

On average, GCSE - year pupils in England spend 9.5 hours per week receiving extra tuition, help with homework from parents or support from school.

This year pupils in Wales sat a totally different paper to those in England which will also be marked in a slightly different way.

Not exact matches

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

Perry chose to award the Loreto Mandeville Hall school in Melbourne, which charges pupils $ 22,000 (# 14,000) a year to attend, according to The Daily Mail newspaper.

Government figures reveal that 339,000 state school pupils were excluded in England in 2015/16 - twelve per cent more than the previous year.

For priests in London and the South - east who have to take on the traumatic responsibility of signing school forms to say whether applicants go to Mass regularly or not, it is dismaying to find that the same pupils a year later are signed up for a weekend school trip on which no provision is made for attending Sunday Mass..

«I am particularly pleased that our highest - performing schools, Hampden Gurney, has secured fantastic outcomes with a significant number of disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 - demonstrating once again that a child's success should never be limited by their background.»

Lawyers claimed the pupils were initially barred from the school after failing to achieve B grades in exams during their first year of sixth form.

A 15 - year - old pupil stabbed teacher Ann Maguire to death in a «completely irrational act stemming from a deep seated grudge», a senior detective has told the inquest into her death.

Ofsted drafted Mr Reynard in to manage the school, which was placed into special measures after it was rated «inadequate in every category, except pupil behavior and safety» last year.

A drop in the number of pupils studying GCSE Religious Studies (RE) is being put down to some schools flouting the law and not teaching the subject to 15 and 16 - year - olds.

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

The 14 year old's friend and fellow pupil at Castlebay Community School, Laura MacIntyre, remains in hospitals after being seriously injured in the suicide bombing.

He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.

-- The competition is only open to primary and secondary school pupils in the UK and entrants must be between 5 and 16 years old at the time of submission.

He said there was a growing trend for pupils choosing meat free dishes and that, over the past year, the uptake in vegetarian meals had «dramatically increased».

Harmon, who is not above trotting out the Kardashians in discussions about his prize pupil, has noted how he laid things out late last year for his four - time PGA Tour winning but major-less student.

Adam, a pupil in Year Six, asked the players about the best and worst aspects of being a footballer, Chris Mepham replied: «The best thing is playing in front of thousands of fans every week, and the most difficult things are when you're injured and you have to stay motivated.»

Every year pupils engaged in the programme design their own posters with the winning designers having the opportunity to lead the teams out at Stamford Bridge.

Universal free school meals for primary school pupils was a key recommendation of the School Food Plan launched in July this year.

The act includes a requirement for all state - funded schools — including academies — to provide free school lunches on request for all pupils in reception, year 1...

State education officials and federal regulators knew a year ago that the breaded chicken tenders blamed for sickening 40 pupils and teachers in Joliet last month might have been contaminated by an ammonia leak at a storage facility in St. Louis.

Two Illinois State Board of Education employees were indicted last year in the incident at Laraway Elementary School, which sent three dozen pupils to the hospital after they ate ammonia - tainted chicken tenders.

The school plays are frequently cited by pupils as a highlight of their years at the Waldorf School of Garden City; the tears and laughter experienced together in preparation and on stage are cherished moments many pupils remember for the rest of their lives.

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If you want to do this, try starting with your newest intake (pupils in reception or year 7).

For the 2016 to 2017 academic year, this will be allocated on the basis of the number of pupils recorded in the January 2015 school census data.

for pupils moving into or between schools, the review and any amendments to an EHC plan must be completed by 15 February in the calendar year of the transfer

Where a pupil or young person is moving from one institution to another, the 2014 Act requires EHC plans to be complete — including naming the institution they will move to — by 31 March in the calendar year of the transfer.

«Pupils and students under 18 years are not expected to be in and around the polling stations across the country,» the statement said.

«By autumn this year, schools will have introduced new safeguarding advice in staff recruitment, ensured their practices comply with new freedom of information policies, made decisions on new pay policies, adopted new codes of practice for special needs pupils, introduced an entirely new curriculum, redesigned assessment and ensured every primary school is ready to offer free school meals to infants regardless of existing kitchen facilities,» he said.

Segregated schools reduce opportunities for children and young people to mix with others from different backgrounds in their formative years and it can restrict pupils» outlook and education.»

The highlight of the select committees sees the chairs of the country's top exam marking boards face the education committee to answer for the English GCSE shambles last year that saw pupils taking the exam in the summer marked differently to those in January.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

A record number of Scottish pupils are receiving their exam results today, although pass rates for Highers have fallen for the first time in four years.

«I'm guaranteeing for the next three years - and I've agreed this with the chancellor of the exchequer - that funding per - pupil will keep rising for every school - in fact, it will rise on average by more than 2 %, that's more than cost pressures.»

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.»

This year's national Independence Day celebration saw 1,200 school pupils drawn from selected schools in the Greater Accra Region to mark the anniversary at the Black Star Square in Accra.

New York's public schools spent $ 21,206 per pupil in the 2014 - 15 school year, topping all states and exceeding the national average by 86 percent, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.

«We are confident that the continuing roll - out of Curriculum for Excellence, the new approach to learning and teaching in Scottish schools, will lead to greater achievement for all pupils in the years ahead.

A year later, the election of another Albanian girl — the best pupil in her school in Crete — was also met with public outrage, to which the local teachers» union president reportedly responded: «This excellent student may be of Albanian origin but she has a Greek citizenship».

GBENGA ADENIJI and SIMON UTEBOR write about the hideous face of cultism which is dangerously polluting the academic milieu in the nation's public secondary schools Looking forlorn and weak, Miss Lillian Friday, a 16 - year - old pupil of Community Secondary School, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has yet to get over her -LSB-...]

Chux Ohai An eight - year - old female pupil of Liberty Bells School in Lekki, Lagos, Tamilore Aderibigbe, has been named as the Fun Tease Star of the Month.

Free school meals are to be extended to all infant pupils in England at a cost of # 600million a year.

We have fallen from 4th to 14th in the world for science, 7th to 17th for literacy and 8th to 24th for mathematics, while around 30,000 pupils leave school every year without a single GCSE.

The proportion of pupils studying RE at GCSE has increased by almost 50 per cent in the last 15 years.

Schools have improved in the last 13 years in many ways - in raw standards, in the number and percentage of pupils who now gain the magic five A * - C (or equivalent) GCSEs, in the quality of teaching and learning in our schools, in the quality of our school buildings, in the creativity and flexibility of the curriculum, and in the range and quality of specialist equipment in schools.

Pupils who were in the first year of primary school in May 1997 finished their GCSEs last summer.

Per - pupil funding levels should be adequate across all programs and settings — both school districts and community based organizations — in order to support high - quality pre-k for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and the state should establish a timeline for ensuring adequate resources while expanding access to all eligible children, particularly in high - need communities.