Sentence examples for of existing grammar from inspiring English sources

Protection of existing grammar schools from change in status.

"But because legally we can't have one I think what they [councillors] will probably do is say is we can have an annex, which will be satellites of existing grammar schools".

Some recent analysis of the comprehensive-schooled children of the 1990s suggests there is a weakening link between parental income and GCSE scores, while a quick glance at the social makeup of existing grammars shows they take far more children prepared for the 11-plus by private primaries than they do children on free school meals.

The examination of existing grammar-based systems provides empirical evidence to support the validity of such models.

The government's controversial decision to approve the first selective school in 50 years looks set to prompt a series of similar applications for "satellite" developments to existing grammar schools.

Officially the new Sevenoaks campus will just be an extension of an existing grammar in Tonbridge, not the beginning of a nationwide resurgence for selective education.

As in Kent, the new school will be a "satellite" in Berkshire – and therefore treated as an extension – of an existing grammar school in neighbouring Buckinghamshire.

This trend has continued under the Coalition – particularly in Sevenoaks, Kent, where permission has been granted for a satellite of an existing grammar school to be opened.Grammar school campaigners have been predicting for some time now that their numbers would be expanding – particularly in Birmingham and Lincolnshire, where they are heavily oversubscribed.

The approved site in Sevenoaks is an expansion or satellite of an already existing grammar school nine miles away in Tonbridge.

More than half of England's 164 existing grammar schools – the survivors of England's comprehensive school reforms in the 1960s and 1970s – say they plan to revise their admissions criteria to give priority to qualifying children who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) or the pupil premium.

It was approved, despite legislation introduced by Labour in 1998 banning any new school from adopting selective admissions, by presenting it as an extension to an existing grammar school, the Weald of Kent in Tonbridge.