Sentence examples for a floor standard from inspiring English sources

From next year, the government has set a "floor standard" for secondary schools of 40% of pupils achieving five good GCSEs, including English and maths.

But parents would prefer a community grammar school that serves local kids who have passed a floor standard in the entrance tests.

Their wide smiles reach out to the crowd despite the Roundhouse's somewhat cavernous space; a floor standard lamp completes the illusion of intimacy, with the set-up completed with two backing vocalists.

The DfE's floor standard now becomes a school-wide Progress 8 score of below -0.5 – a result that indicates the school's average achievement is half a GCSE grade below the national average of other pupils with the same expected progress.

Christine Blower, the general secretary of NUT, said: "It is difficult to see how a 25% increase in the primary floor standard between 2010 and 2016 could be realistically achieved without wide-scale teaching to the test and other inappropriate drilling techniques.

Instead, schools will fall below the floor standard if pupils make an average of half a grade less progress than expected across their eight subjects.

A school is considered to be below the floor standard if at least 40% of its pupils do not achieve the standard of at least 5 GCSEs at C or better, including English and maths, and if pupils' overall progress is not good enough in both those two subjects.

Gove is also consulting on replacing the "floor standard" system, in which schools that fall below a particular level are deemed to have failed.

Researchers at Education Datalab estimated that 296 schools appeared to fall below the government's Progress 8 floor standard, which could see them subject to close inspection and undergo a change of management.

"The government should suspend the floor standard for 2016, halt interventions based on the misleading results and place a strong health warning on the national statistics".

Its primary schools are also excelling, with no school below the 2012 floor standard of 60 per cent of pupils achieving the required ability in maths and English.