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Primary Education

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many primary school teachers have a subject-specific specialism in each subject; [232411]

(2) how many primary schools do not have a teacher with a mathematics specialism; [232412]

(3) how many primary schools have an executive headteacher. [232413]

Jim Knight: The information requested in his question (232413) is not held centrally, however Advanced Skills Teachers, Leading Teachers, and other primary school teachers may be able to provide primary schools with specialist mathematics support. We do not hold numbers for how many are doing this centrally. The recent “Independent Review of Mathematics Teaching in Early Years Settings and Primary Schools” by Sir Peter Williams estimated that approximately 3,000 teachers with a mathematics specialism are currently working in primary schools. By 2019 we will have implemented Sir Peter’s main recommendation in accordance with his timetable, so that all primary schools will have access to a mathematics specialist teacher with their numbers increasing to around 13,000.

Primary Education: Pupil Exclusions

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many primary school pupils of each age have been given a fixed-period exclusion, broken down by reason for exclusion, in the last 12 months. [232417]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The requested information is shown in the table.


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Maintained primary schools( 1) : Number of fixed period exclusions by age and reason for exclusion( 2) , England, 2006-07
Pupils

Aged 2 and under Aged 3 Aged 4 Aged 5 Aged 6 Aged 7 Aged 8 Aged 9 Aged 10 Aged 11

Physical assault against a pupil

10

120

300

580

830

1,180

1,900

2,630

2,270

1,330

Physical assault against an adult

(4)

140

420

890

1,070

1,120

1,100

1,020

650

280

Verbal abuse/threatening behaviour against a pupil

0

10

30

90

140

280

430

690

530

320

Verbal abuse/threatening behaviour against an adult

(4)

30

70

210

340

590

960

1,440

1,200

730

Bullying

0

0

(4)

10

30

40

80

150

180

70

Racist abuse

0

(4)

(4)

(4)

20

40

70

80

80

50

Sexual misconduct

0

(4)

(4)

20

20

20

50

50

70

30

Drug and alcohol related

0

0

0

0

(4)

(4)

10

20

20

10

Damage

0

10

10

40

80

100

160

250

190

110

Theft

0

0

(4)

(4)

10

40

50

90

100

60

Persistent disruptive behaviour

0

50

260

670

1,160

1,750

2,490

3,390

2,720

1,460

Other

(4)

20

50

100

190

350

560

840

690

370

Total

20

380

1,140

2,610

3,890

5,500

7,860

10,640

8,680

4,820


Pupils

Aged 12 Aged 13 Aged 14 Aged 15 Aged 16 Aged 17 Aged 18 Aged 19 and over Total( 3)

Physical assault against a pupil

50

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

0

11,210

Physical assault against an adult

10

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

6,710

Verbal abuse/threatening behaviour against a pupil

10

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2,520

Verbal abuse/threatening behaviour against an adult

20

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5,590

Bullying

10

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

560

Racist abuse

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

350

Sexual misconduct

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

260

Drug and alcohol related

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

60

Damage

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

950

Theft

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

340

Persistent disruptive behaviour

70

0

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

14,030

Other

10

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

0

3,180

Total

180

(4)

(4)

0

0

0

0

0

45,740

(1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) Age as at 31 August 2006. (3) Includes 10 exclusions for which missing or invalid date of birth was recorded. These have been included in the total only. (4) Less than 5. Note: Totals may not appear to equal the sum of component parts because numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census.

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