These results are not easy to find or to interpret. However, ignore the column VA, which stands for "value added" - an idea of the government to confuse people and where, indeed, all schools get at least 98% and some actually achieve more than 100%. The important column is the last one, average. This shows the following are the top six schools: Canon Slade 39.4; St Joseph's Horwich, 37.1; Turton 36.8; St James's Farnworth 36.4; Rivington 35.3 and Thornleigh 35. Thus church schools take four of the top six places. This is not because people who are Church of England or Roman Catholic have more brains but simply because the church schools have less interference from Bolton Metropolitan Borough. If the Council interfered less, all schools would improve.
These results are not easy to find or to interpret. However, ignore the column VA, which stands for "value added" - an idea of the government to confuse people and where, indeed, all schools get at least 98% and some actually achieve more than 100%. The important column is the last one, average. This shows the following are the top six schools: Canon Slade 39.4; St Joseph's Horwich, 37.1; Turton 36.8; St James's Farnworth 36.4; Rivington 35.3 and Thornleigh 35. Thus church schools take four of the top six places. This is not because people who are Church of England or Roman Catholic have more brains but simply because the church schools have less interference from Bolton Metropolitan Borough. If the Council interfered less, all schools would improve.
Government tables are useless and don't really give people a proper insight into the school. they are only a snapshot of a set of pupils doing a test.
They are derogatory to those who don't take the tests and it doesn't take into account the levels the pupils started at or where they finished.
It is only about the test.
In other words TOTALLY USELESS.
Government tables are useless and don't really give people a proper insight into the school. they are only a snapshot of a set of pupils doing a test.
They are derogatory to those who don't take the tests and it doesn't take into account the levels the pupils started at or where they finished.
Posted by: Mr Cooper, Derbyshire on 12:33pm Thu 28 Feb 08
The value added figure is the key indicator.
Schools that take in clever pupils will obviously do well when it comes to KS3 and GCSE.
What the VA figure points out is how much the kids have improved while being taught at the school.
Performance tables should not be the only mechanism people use the judge schools. Please visit any school you intend to send your child to, as many times as possible. Speak to as many parents and staff associated with the school as you can.
Right. Sorry for the interruption.
Let the senseless argument continue...
The value added figure is the key indicator.
Schools that take in clever pupils will obviously do well when it comes to KS3 and GCSE.
What the VA figure points out is how much the kids have improved while being taught at the school.
Performance tables should not be the only mechanism people use the judge schools. Please visit any school you intend to send your child to, as many times as possible. Speak to as many parents and staff associated with the school as you can.
Right. Sorry for the interruption.
Let the senseless argument continue...
so ranked in VA terms you still get the church schools at the top end - Canon Slade CE 3, St James CE 5, St Josephs RC 7, Thornleigh RC 8, Mount St Joseph RC 9.this means that ALL the RC schools are in top 9, can't all be the cleverest children.
so ranked in VA terms you still get the church schools at the top end - Canon Slade CE 3, St James CE 5, St Josephs RC 7, Thornleigh RC 8, Mount St Joseph RC 9.this means that ALL the RC schools are in top 9, can't all be the cleverest children.
Value Added means nothing if your kids end up on drugs.
Parent being forced to go into church to get their Kids in a half decent school is the norm nowadays.
All this polava started in the mid 90s. It doesn't necessarily mean your kids are going to do well and league tables (not performance) do nothing other than cloud the issue.
They are a measure of the children on a particular at a particular test NOTHING ELSE.
The value added rubbish is another issue to cloud the issue of the abilities of the children.
I know someone who teaches business studies and he says more than half the kids don't even know what 50% of 1 is.
That's at 17.
God help us.
Its an absoli
Value Added means nothing if your kids end up on drugs.
Parent being forced to go into church to get their Kids in a half decent school is the norm nowadays.
All this polava started in the mid 90s. It doesn't necessarily mean your kids are going to do well and league tables (not performance) do nothing other than cloud the issue.
They are a measure of the children on a particular at a particular test NOTHING ELSE.
The value added rubbish is another issue to cloud the issue of the abilities of the children.
I know someone who teaches business studies and he says more than half the kids don't even know what 50% of 1 is.
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