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Education Act
Education put in to three stages, primary, secondary and further education.
3 types of Grammar schools
Technical stages
Elementary schools -
Free milk 1946
Free milk provided for all pupils -
School leaving age
School leaving age raised to 15 -
Children Act 1948
Children Act 1948 made provision for the care and welfare of children without parents or whose parents were unfit to take care of them. -
Indecency with Children Act 1960
Indecency with children Act strengthen the law relating to sexual offences against children especially young girls -
Education Act 1962
Education Act required LEAs to provide students with grant for living cost and tuition fees. LEAs legally responsible for ensuring pupils attend school. -
Mandatory maintenance grants
1962 Mandatory maintenance grants are introduced for students to cover tuition fees and living costs. -
Labour government promised to set up comprehensive schools
1964: Harold Wilson’s newly-elected Labour government promised to set up comprehensive schools, combining pupils of all ability levels in one school that served a specific catchment area. -
CSEs
CSEs (Certificates of Secondary Education) were brought in in 1965 and were initially taken by pupils who were in secondary moderns, not grammars or private schools. -
Margaret Thatcher became Secretary of State for Education
In June 1970 Margaret Thatcher became Secretary of State for Education -
Milk snatcher 1971
Margaret Thatcher, aka the "milk snatcher", most famously hastened the demise of free milk in schools, but it was already in decline before she came to power. -
School leaving age
School leaving age raised to 16 -
Student grants increased
1980 Student grants are increased from £380 to £1,430. -
Education Act 1981
The 1981 Education Act imposed two duties on local authorities; firstly to identify, assess and arrange appropriate provision for children and young people with special educational needs and secondly, to give greater weight to parental preference when choosing school placements. This second duty was subject to three conditions: whether the disabled child can be educated in mainstream school, that the education of other children will not be adversely affected. -
GCSEs first started
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BTEC Qualifications
BTEC stands for 'Business and Technology Education Council', which used to run the award, first introduced in 1984. BTECs are now awarded by the Edexcel exam board and are taken in more than 100 countries at all levels, from pre-GCSE to Degree equivalent. They are vocational and work-related courses, designed to accommodate the needs of employers and allow students to progress to further and higher education. -
O levels
Last time o levels were taken -
Social Security Act
Thatcher hadn't finished yet. The 1986 Social Security Act (which came into force in 1988) resulted in thousands of children losing their entitlement to free school meals. -
Sats started in schools for year 6
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I was born
I was born in 1993 -
A* added to GCSEs
1994: An A* grade was added to GCSEs to differentiate between top and lower A grades. -
Nursery
I went nursery when I was 4 before going to primary school -
Tuition fees
Tuition fees were first introduced across the entire United Kingdom in September 1998 under the Labour Government as a means of funding tuition to undergraduate and postgraduate certificate students at universities, with students being required to pay up to £1,000 a year for tuition. -
Started Priorslee primary school
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AS Level
2000: Advanced Subsidiary (AS-level) exams were brought in for 17 year olds. These were qualifications in their own right but also served as a halfway stage in the A-level course, unlike the Advanced Supplementary exams they replaced. -
Learning and skills act 2002
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Nutritional standards
The nutritional standards for school meals - the first for twenty years - were eventually published on 12 July 2000 and became compulsory in April 2001. -
Education Act 2002
All key stage children should follow the 11 subject areas : English
Mathematics
Science
Information and Communication Technology
Design Technology
History
Geography
Art and Design
Music
Physical Education
Religious Education -
Key stage 1
Primary school age 5 till 7 -
Started Secondary school Idsall School
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Finished primary school
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Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) 2004
EMA is for 16 to 18 year olds living in Wales, who want to continue their education after school leaving age. If you're eligible, you could get £30 a week, paid every two weeks. -
Picked my options
I choose ICT
Health and social and business studies -
Priorslee primary school
Became a academy -
Finished Idsall School (Secondary School)
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Started College
TCAT -
Key stage 2
All key stage 2 pupils given opportunity to learn a modern language. -
Priorslee primary school
Turned in to academy school
Priorslee Primary School converted to an academy in 2011. Upon conversion to academy status, the existing school closed and the new school opened in its place. Priorslee Primary Academy is a large school . -
Finished college
TCAT studied IT -
Tuition fees increased
cap of £9,000 by the coalition government for students starting university in 2012. This was the year I started university, so each year for me it was £9000 each year. Previously till this year it was £3000. -
Started University
Wolverhampton University studied IT Management -
School meals healthy eating
Food served in some schools and academies in England must meet the school food standards so that children have healthy, balanced diets.
The school food standards apply to all maintained schools, and academies that were founded before 2010 and after June 2014. They must provide: high-quality meat, poultry or oily fish
fruit and vegetables
bread, other cereals and potatoes
There can’t be:
drinks with added sugar, crisps, chocolate or sweets in school meals and vending machines -
PGCE
Started my pgce -
Graduation
Graduated at university of Wolverhampton -
Progress 8
It applies to: local-authority-maintained schools
academies
free schools
The Progress 8 measure is a new secondary school accountability system. The ‘Progress 8 measure in 2016 and 2017’ document sets out how we’ll calculate the Progress 8 school performance measure when starts in 2016.
