Sentence examples for existing pupils from inspiring English sources

Implicitly accepting that grammar schools may set their own entrance tests, it published guidelines for all schools: preferential treatment for locals and siblings of existing pupils, 20% of places to be reserved for poor children, and so forth.

"Even more concerning is the lack of clarity and commitment and support for existing pupils especially those taking their GCSEs".

"If proposals within the education white paper go forward, and all schools convert to academies, councils must be given powers to force schools to expand where this is in the best interests of new and existing pupils," said Roy Perry, chair of the LGA's children and young people board.

No one was consulted on the policy change, which would add this data to the existing national pupil database: not parents, not teachers, not parliament.

Superintendent Andy Webster said officers were currently focused on the one alleged incident and they were trying to ascertain whether the report related to existing or former pupils of the school.

A spokesperson for the school in Llandaff said: "The Cathedral School has recently unveiled ambitious plans for a major redevelopment, which include the provision of a sixth form for the first time in its history, as well as substantially improving existing facilities for pupils in the infant, junior and senior sections.

They will be able to switch to the existing Intermediate qualification for pupils who are currently in second year if they are "not sufficiently on track" for the new exams.

It is a vision which worries teaching unions and other critics of the policy - who say free schools will take money and pupils from existing schools, increase segregation and division and lead to the break-up of the state school system.

Looking ahead, the government will use the existing criteria to assess pupil premium eligibility in the 2015-16 financial year.

The union says that opening new schools in areas with a surplus of places will damage existing schools by drawing away pupils and threatening the viability of services.

And in June, LEAs will have to show that they have increased spending per pupil from their existing budgets by at least 5% in the past year, or else Mr Blunkett's civil servants will do it for them.