Secondary League Tables
VOTE: Doing better! Schools given tables boost
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| LEADERS: Phil Mather, headteacher at Withins, with the school's head boy, Jack Hart-Ryan, and head girl, Emma Sydall, both aged 15 |
THE latest secondary school league tables - published today - make good reading for many of Bolton's previously underperforming schools.
A number of schools have enjoyed a massive improvement in GCSE results, helping them to soar up the local league tables after staggering turnarounds.
One of the most improved schools is Withins in Breightmet, which came close to doubling its pass rate of children gaining five or more A* to C grades, including maths and English. In 2007, 25 per cent of pupils reached that target, up from 13 per cent the previous year.
Pupils and staff at Mount St Joseph School in Greenland Road, Farnworth, which is in one of the most deprived areas of Bolton, also have reason to celebrate.
The school rose from 18th of the borough's 22 secondary schools in 2006 to eighth this year.
A total of 42 per cent of pupils at the school achieved the required five or more A* to C grades, including maths and English - a rise from 29 per cent the previous year.
Headteacher Paul Roach said: "The school was delighted with last summer's examination results. They reflected the hard work, dedication and commitment of all staff and students."
Ladybridge School in Deane is bottom of the state schools in Bolton and is also placed in the bottom 200 schools in the country. Just 18 per cent of its pupils reached the required standard at GCSE.
The tables also show that, despite the successes, pupils in Bolton are falling short of the national average in GCSE results.
A total of 40.1 per cent of pupils in Bolton are gaining five or more GCSE qualifications at A* to C, including maths and English, and although that is an improvement on last year's 38 per cent, it is still well below the national average of 46.7 per cent.
Nevertheless, Bolton maintained its position as 111th out of England's 150 local authorities.
Margaret Asquith, director for Children's Services, said: "The school performance tables for GCSE results show that Bolton schools are making good progress
"While Bolton schools still remain below the national average for attainment at GCSE, we celebrated our best results this year for the second year running and we are committed to improving attainment further."
Top of the table is Bolton School girls' division, with its near perfect pass rate of 99 per cent of pupils getting five or more A* to C grades, including maths and English.
Canon Slade School in Bradshaw maintained its position as the best state school in the borough with its pass rate of 80 per cent of pupils reaching the required standard.
Cllr Linda Thomas, executive member for Children's Services, said: "We celebrate the achievement of all of our young people across Bolton, whilst committing ourselves to continuing the progress that has been made and ensuring that standards continue to rise across the local authority."
Bury is placed 27, Wigan is placed 80 and Salford is at 127 in the national table of local authorities.
View the secondary school performance tables in full here.9:00am Thursday 10th January 2008
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Posted by: Rocky, Bowton on 9:08am Thu 10 Jan 08
Tables are useless.
Not only have they no influence on the ability of a parent to send it's child to a school of their choice the tables demoralise the schools at the bottom.
To clarify the point :-
How many parents from Bolton have been able to send their children to schools in Bury?
Tables are useless.
Not only have they no influence on the ability of a parent to send it's child to a school of their choice the tables demoralise the schools at the bottom.
To clarify the point :-
How many parents from Bolton have been able to send their children to schools in Bury?
Posted by: NRG, Lancs on 9:20am Thu 10 Jan 08
Ah. Finally. I see the BN has accepted the correct figures for Withins' results. You usually bang on about how they achieved 50-odd% last year and 60-odd% this year. Not quite as good as you made out, is it?
And Bolton 111th out of 150? That's precisely why we left. Our childrenare just too important to trust Bolton schools with their education.
Ah. Finally. I see the BN has accepted the correct figures for Withins' results. You usually bang on about how they achieved 50-odd% last year and 60-odd% this year. Not quite as good as you made out, is it?
And Bolton 111th out of 150? That's precisely why we left. Our childrenare just too important to trust Bolton schools with their education.
Posted by: filth, horwich on 10:32am Thu 10 Jan 08
[italic]Bolten skools nevr did me any arm...![/italic]
Bolten skools nevr did me any arm...! Posted by: Brak, Bolton on 11:05am Thu 10 Jan 08
[quote]Not only have they no influence on the ability of a parent to send it's child to a school of their choice the tables demoralise the schools at the bottom.[/quote]
Rocky you will be opening up a can of worms there as in the latest b*llsh1t saying to kids shouldn’t compete at school as it isn’t fair on the fat kids.
I’ll be sending mine to Bolton School – you get what you pay for.
Not only have they no influence on the ability of a parent to send it's child to a school of their choice the tables demoralise the schools at the bottom.
Rocky you will be opening up a can of worms there as in the latest b*llsh1t saying to kids shouldn’t compete at school as it isn’t fair on the fat kids.
I’ll be sending mine to Bolton School – you get what you pay for.
Posted by: kieanders, bolton on 11:46am Thu 10 Jan 08
[quote][bold]Brak[/bold] wrote:
[quote]Not only have they no influence on the ability of a parent to send it's child to a school of their choice the tables demoralise the schools at the bottom.[/quote] Rocky you will be opening up a can of worms there as in the latest b*llsh1t saying to kids shouldn’t compete at school as it isn’t fair on the fat kids. I’ll be sending mine to Bolton School – you get what you pay for.[/quote] not if your kids are lads, bolton schools boys division did terribly in the table!
ranked 21!
Brak wrote:
Not only have they no influence on the ability of a parent to send it's child to a school of their choice the tables demoralise the schools at the bottom.
Rocky you will be opening up a can of worms there as in the latest b*llsh1t saying to kids shouldn’t compete at school as it isn’t fair on the fat kids. I’ll be sending mine to Bolton School – you get what you pay for.
not if your kids are lads, bolton schools boys division did terribly in the table!
ranked 21!
Posted by: Sun Tzu on 11:53am Thu 10 Jan 08
If you'll pardon the pun, it's all academic.
You don't need any GCSE's to know that government education policy of the last 10 year has been engineered to keep people in education and out of the jobless figures. It's a similar wheeze to the one pulled by the Tories, when they were in power. Which encouraged people to move onto incapacity benefit.
Although they may be able to extend it further still, with their proposal to extend school leaving age to 18. They cannot continue to do this indefinately.
It's about time we had some honest people in parliament who returned education to the educators, and stopped using it as a political football.
If you'll pardon the pun, it's all academic.
You don't need any GCSE's to know that government education policy of the last 10 year has been engineered to keep people in education and out of the jobless figures. It's a similar wheeze to the one pulled by the Tories, when they were in power. Which encouraged people to move onto incapacity benefit.
Although they may be able to extend it further still, with their proposal to extend school leaving age to 18. They cannot continue to do this indefinately.
It's about time we had some honest people in parliament who returned education to the educators, and stopped using it as a political football.
Posted by: steve, bolton on 5:46pm Thu 10 Jan 08
Would we not be better putting the people who currently run the Bury education service in charge of bolton schools and at the same time as saving money on administration drag Bolton schools into the top 100?. There are many parents from Bolton going through the complicated process of sending their children to Bury schools.Utilising their obviously greater expertise would not only negate the need for this process but improve childrens chances of success.
Would we not be better putting the people who currently run the Bury education service in charge of bolton schools and at the same time as saving money on administration drag Bolton schools into the top 100?. There are many parents from Bolton going through the complicated process of sending their children to Bury schools.Utilising their obviously greater expertise would not only negate the need for this process but improve childrens chances of success.
Posted by: notlob, bolton on 9:53pm Thu 10 Jan 08
Look at the tables - not one of Bolton's state funded schools comes anywhere near the national average. And the Executive Member for Children's Services says we should celebrate! This is serious and it's time we treated it as such!
Look at the tables - not one of Bolton's state funded schools comes anywhere near the national average. And the Executive Member for Children's Services says we should celebrate! This is serious and it's time we treated it as such!
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