Sentence examples for modern pupils from inspiring English sources

The educational advantage received by those selected for these schools is more than outweighed by the drag effect of the remaining secondary modern pupils, who perform disproportionately badly.

Because the Romantic poets, such as the Williams Wordsworth and Blake, deal with complex themes to which many modern pupils may struggle to relate, there is a danger that English literature will become exclusive to only the most able pupils.

When the day arrived, I approached the entrance hall with trepidation, thinking, as a former secondary modern pupil, that I would find the experience culturally challenging.

I ended up at a secondary modern school where pupils left at 15 without taking GCEs.

In addition, the inspection team found the school was failing to prepare pupils for modern Britain.

It is bizarre to omit this cornerstone of modern life from our pupils' most important educational experiences.

But with losers come winners and while history, geography and modern languages are haemorrhaging pupils, media studies, psychology and religion are gaining popularity.

This problem has been significantly exacerbated by the fact that pupils choosing modern languages have not been rewarded adequately for excellent performance.

Jadids organized New Method schools at the primary and secondary level, teaching pupils by modern pedagogical methods rather than by the rote learning that had been used in traditional schools.

Both China's Lu Xun and India's Rabindranath Tagore confronted what Tanpinar described as "the awful thing we call belatedness" – that is, the experience of arriving late in the modern world, as naive pupils, to find one's future foreclosed and already defined by other people's past and present.

The results also revealed a continuing fall in the numbers of pupils taking modern languages - with French, Spanish and German in decline - by 5.2%, 3.4% and 7.6% respectively.