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English: These Regulations make provision for the approval of non-maintained special schools by the Secretary of State, and set out the requirements which must be met for a school to continue to be approved as a non-maintained special school. They replace the Education (Non-Maintained Special Schools) (England) Regulations 2011, which are ...
The School Census is a statutory data collection for all maintained (state-funded) schools in England.This includes nursery, primary, secondary, middle-deemed primary, middle-deemed secondary, local authority maintained special and non-maintained special schools, academies including free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges and city technology colleges.
About one third of English state-funded schools are faith schools; [3] i.e. affiliated with religious groups, most often from the Church of England (approximately 2/3 of faith schools), or the Roman Catholic Church (around 3/10). There are also schools affiliated to other religions; in 2011, there were 42 Jewish, 12 Muslim, 3 Sikh and 1 Hindu ...
Though not yet compulsory, schools are still expected to cover the economic wellbeing (and careers) of PSHE education. [15] [16] The PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum jointly published a 'Roadmap to Statutory RSE education' [17] in November 2018 to support schools in preparing their relationships and sex education for statutory ...
Key Stage 3 (commonly abbreviated as KS3) is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14. In Northern Ireland the term also refers to the first three years of secondary education.
A sign for Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham with its specialist status in maths and science advertised.. Specialist schools [a] in the United Kingdom (sometimes branded as specialist colleges in England and Northern Ireland) are schools with an emphasis or focus in a specific specialised subject area, which is called a specialism, or alternatively in the case of some special schools in ...
Circular 6/93 permitted these schools to select up to 10% of their intake on the basis of ability or aptitude in music, art, drama or sport. Circular 6/96 permitted more selection. By 1997, over 40 schools were selecting up to 50% of pupils. [4] [5] In 1997 a Labour government was elected, with a policy of abolishing partial selection.
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools. Foundation schools were set up under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to replace grant-maintained schools , which were funded directly by central government.