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Gifted Children: Staffordshire
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire County Council area have been identified as gifted and talented since 2001. [179499]
Jim Knight: The available information is given in the tables. Information on gifted and talented pupils was collected for the first time via the school census in 2006.
| Maintained primary and secondary schools( 1) , number and percentage of gifted and talented pupils( 2) , position as at summer each year 2006 and 2007, Tamworth parliamentary constituency and Staffordshire local authority | |||||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||
| Tamworth parliamentary constituency | Staffordshire local authority | England( 3) | |||||||
| Number of pupils( 2) | Number of gifted and talented pupils( 2) | Percentage of gifted and talented pupils( 4) | Number of pupils( 2) | Number of gifted and talented pupils( 2) | Percentage of gifted and talented pupils( 4) | Number of pupils( 2) | Number of gifted and talented pupils( 2) | Percentage of gifted and talented pupils( 4) | |
| 2007 | |||||||||
| Tamworth parliamentary constituency | Staffordshire local authority | England( 3) | |||||||
| Number of pupils( 2) | Number of gifted and talented pupils( 2) | Percentage of gifted and talented pupils( 4) | Number of pupils( 2) | Number of gifted and talented pupils( 2) | Percentage of gifted and talented pupils( 4) | Number of pupils( 2) | Number of gifted and talented pupils( 2) | Percentage of gifted and talented pupils( 4) | |
| n/a = Not available. (1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) Includes pupils with sole and dual (main) registration. (3) National figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. (4) The number of gifted and talented pupils expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils. (5) Excludes city technology colleges and academies. Source: School Census. | |||||||||
Home Education
Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether the term, “education otherwise than at school” is taken by his Department to include elective home education. [179001]
Jim Knight: Yes: this is explained in the guidelines for local authorities on monitoring elective home education that were published in November 2007. A copy of the guidelines has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether he plans to meet Education Otherwise and other home education organisations. [179960]
Jim Knight: I have no plans to meet Education Otherwise and other home education organisations. My officials are in regular contact with them.
Languages: General Certificate of Secondary Education
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many mainstream secondary schools did not enter students for a GCSE in a modern language in each of the last three years. [177817]
Jim Knight: The numbers of maintained mainstream schools with no students entered for a GCSE in a modern language in each of the last three years are as follows:
| Number | |
The 2004/05 figure relates to French, German or Spanish only.
Languages: Primary Education
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many primary schools in each London borough teach a modern foreign language; [179546]
(2) which modern foreign languages are taught in primary schools in London. [179547]
Jim Knight: The table details the proportion of primary schools in each London borough which reported in autumn 2006 that they were teaching languages in class time. The data were obtained from ongoing research commissioned by the Department, which estimated the proportion of schools teaching languages in class time. The figures are based on a representative sample of maintained primary schools and the survey achieved a 48 per cent. response rate nationally.
The major languages taught in primary schools in London were French, German, Italian and Spanish. Other languages taught in a small number of schools included Chinese, Japanese, Urdu, Panjabi, Hebrew, Turkish, Albanian and Bengali.
| London LAs | Percentage of responding primary schools teaching languages in class time |
Mandarin: Primary Education
Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he is taking to promote the teaching of Mandarin in primary schools. [179630]
Jim Knight: The Children's Plan, published in December 2007, confirmed that the primary curriculum will be reviewed, including introducing languages as a compulsory subject. This takes forward the recommendation in Lord Dearing's Languages Review that languages should become a compulsory part of the primary curriculum, and builds on the existing entitlement for all Key Stage 2 pupils to learn a language in class time by 2010.
Members: Correspondence
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he will respond to the letter of 29 November from the hon. Member for Isle of Wight on changes to the school system on the Isle of Wight. [176827]
Jim Knight: A reply to this letter was provided by Lord Adonis on 20 December 2007.
Private Education: Academic Year
Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on what basis he decided on the figures of (a) 28 weeks of education in an academic year and (b) 12.5 hours of education in a week in seeking to define an independent academic institution. [178994]
Jim Knight: We want an ‘independent educational institution’ to be one that provides the main part of a child’s education. As 28 weeks’ education per year and 12.5 hours’ education per week together constitute more than half a school year and more than half a typical school week for primary age children, these institutions will provide the main part of their pupils’ education.
Pupils: Accidents
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils were taken to hospitals owing to accidents within schools in Tamworth constituency in each of the last five years. [179392]
Jim Knight: The Health and Safety Executive has provided details, as requested, in the following table:
| Injuries to students in schools in the local authority of Tamworth, reported to HSE, 2002/03 to 2006/07( 1) | |
| Non-fatal injuries | |
| (1) Provisional. Notes: 1. Injuries are reported and defined under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995. The information available under RIDDOR 95 includes two categories of severity for members of the public (the category under which students are recorded): fatal injuries and non-fatal injuries that cause a person to be taken from the site of the accident to hospital. Across the period shown there are no recorded fatal injuries to students in Tamworth reported to HSE under RIDDOR. 2. Identified using Standard Occupational Classification 2000 (SOC2000) code 0002 'Student'. 3. Identified using Standard Industrial Classification 1992 (SIC92) codes 80100 'Primary education', 80200 'Secondary education' and 80210 'General secondary education'. 4. The annual basis is the planning year from 1 April to 31 March. | |
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