Sentence examples for large numbers of pupils from inspiring English sources

The head became an estate agent promoting the school in an attempt to recruit large numbers of pupils and, for additional income, the use of the building.

School uniforms have become increasingly popular in recent years, particularly with the growth in the academy programme, and Hanson is not the first school to send home large numbers of pupils in an attempt to impose school uniform policy.

Two of the biggest demonstrations in the north of England, at Leeds and Sheffield, were swollen by large numbers of pupils as young as 12 who walked out of at least six high schools.

Mr Brown wants to divert some of the new money to districts with large numbers of pupils from poor or non-English-speaking backgrounds (by one measure California has America's highest poverty rate).

Simon Gosden Rayleigh, Essex I share the Guardian's opposition to a two-tier system that would lead to large numbers of pupils being unable to take an exam at 16. Let me put the record straight: Liberal Democrats secured that the new qualification, the English baccalaureate certificate, will be available to exactly the same number of children who currently sit GCSEs.

She said the school would not take "large numbers" of pupils from other schools in the area.

Even when languages were compulsory in the late 1990s, a large number of pupils abandoned them or achieved very little".

Hartsdown, which is rated "good" by Ofsted and is sponsored by the Coastal Academies Trust, is a challenging school with a large number of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including unaccompanied asylum seekers and eastern European children with English as an additional language.

He was very successful financially and attracted a large number of pupils, of whom the two most distinguished were Marco Dente, known as Marco da Ravenna, and Agostino de Musi, known as Agostino Veneziano.

And it is certainly true that we attract a large number of pupils who have only arrived in the country recently, and whose parents often will have had minimal contact themselves with education".

We do know there has been a record number of phone calls to ChildLine from children with suicidal thoughts; that 55% of headteachers are reporting large number of pupils with anxiety and distress; and that rates of admissions for self-harm are at a five-year high.