Sentence examples for comprehensive academy from inspiring English sources

In their day it was a grammar school; today it's a comprehensive academy whose current fame is less to do with its illustrious alumni than its GCSE results.

I became a late (very late) entrant to teaching, and now front maths classes at a comprehensive academy in Chelmsford, Essex.

In fact, the YouTube star, whose real name is Zoe Sugg, attended The Corsham School, which is a mixed comprehensive academy (Private pupils are still on the high road to success, 26 January, page 7).

The questions are part of what Pinkett, a shaven-headed, blokeish English teacher at King's College Guildford, a comprehensive academy in Surrey, calls "militant tenderness" – his deliberate drive to combat what he sees as the "hyper-masculinisation" of boys by society, by modelling an alternative masculinity that values "kindness, vulnerability and love".

There is certainly no suggestion that elite institutions such as Eton or St Paul's become "socially comprehensive academies" – perish the thought – nor any suggestion that the narrowness of their class intake, or indeed the predominance of middle-class children in the country's remaining grammars, present any ideological problem whatsoever to the current Tory leadership.

The situation is worse in comprehensives and academies than in grammar and independent schools, says the research, which was conducted by the Historical Association.

A minority of comprehensives and academies are successful, but these are generally sited in areas of affluence where house prices in the catchment areas put them beyond the reach of aspirational working-class parents and as a result they are often characterised by having low numbers of pupils who receive free school meals.

And I speak as an ex-head of a successful inner-city comprehensive school, an academy, in Hackney.

Together they form a comprehensive entrepreneurial wisdom academy curriculum.

There is no great record of success yet for independent schools sponsoring academy comprehensives.

But he has not looked as if he has absolute confidence in the judgement of Iain Duncan Smith as welfare secretary, nor has he dispensed with him.This brings us to education, where Mr Gove has been allowed many freedoms to change the structures of schools, mainly through expanding the shift from comprehensive schools to academies (self-governing, taxpayer funded schools).