Sentence examples for able pupils from inspiring English sources

About a quarter of the least able pupils drop out at 16.

An English teacher in London said the exams were inaccessible for less able pupils.

Recent research found that highly able pupils receiving the Pupil Premium - a payment made to schools to help poorer children - achieve on average half a grade less per subject than similarly able pupils who don't warrant it.

(In the old days, able pupils took O-levels and those deemed less able were made to sit CSEs instead).

The most able pupils, Dormandy says, are stretched with demanding roles, but all are encouraged to go on to university.

Both Allen and Husbands say grammar schools do a good job in teaching the highly able pupils they take in.

Wilshaw also proposed the introduction of sanctions against schools that failed to meet their responsibilities towards their most able pupils.

Other doubts involve how well even improved, modern 11-plus exams can select the most able pupils.

It adds that - since the demise of the gifted and talented programme initiated under Labour - many schools now lack special provision for the highly able pupils.

The report recommends that schools with a good record of catering for highly able pupils should pass on their know-how to less successful schools in their neighbourhoods.

It added:  "There are sever problems with the grading of German …  In most cases, it is the more able pupils who have been penalised".