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Back to school - what's new for 2014/15 (9th September, 2014)
- Free School meals for KS1 students
- New Ofsted guidance
- SEN reforms
Primary Academy Chain Development Grant (5th March, 2014)
From Avec Partnership
The Department for Education recently announced the replacement of the £50k Primary Chains Grant with a new grant called Primary Academy Chain Development Grant.
North East Primaries fare well in league tables (20th December, 2013)
Last week, the DfE published the primary school league tables for 2013. The number of primary school children in England achieving a level 4 pass in reading, writing and mathematics at key stage 2 (KS2), rose slightly on last year with 76% of pupils reaching the benchmark for their age group in 2013 compared with 75% in 2012.
Overall the percentage of children getting a level 4 in writing and mathematics increased - up two percentage points and one percentage point respectively while the percentage of pupils reaching the same level in reading has decreased by one percentage point to 86%.
The North East Challenge (4th December, 2013)
Education minister David Laws has backed calls for a North East Challenge to drive up standards. It follows recent work by SCHOOLS NorthEast along with a range of local and national partners on the development of plans which draw on the lessons of the London Challenge.
Mr Laws said: “There is no reason why regions of the country have to wait for ministers and the Department for Education to approve good plans on the ground.”
Schools encouraged to tackle the takeaways (15th January, 2012)
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Changes to the national Curriculum (15th January, 2012)
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Extra funding through Pupil Premium (8th January, 2012)
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