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At the moment around one in six children leaves primary school unable to read to the level we expect.
BBC: Education & Family
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The announcement came a month after the 14 December killings of 20 children and six adults at a primary school in Connecticut.
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Steven made the call when he returned home after scoring five out of six in the test at Comerbach Primary School, near Northwich, Cheshire.
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The proposals include closing the Wakeman school as well as six primary schools, and also suggest two amalgamations.
BBC: Petition over Shrewsbury school closure plan
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Six members of staff at Revoe Community Primary School were suspended last week after concerns were raised before half-term, the council said.
BBC: Revoe Community Primary School
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Six out of the seven staff at Heamoor Primary School near Penzance walked out in a dispute by the National Union of Teachers (NUT).
BBC: Heamoor staff
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Mrs Ward, a former primary school teacher from Doncaster, said that six in ten children who were classed as poor lived in families where someone worked.
BBC: Pupils suffer 'shocking' poverty
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Phil Hindle said it was "really challenging" to get his six-year-old son Sam ready to go to Coten End Primary School, in Warwick, each morning and then to take four-year-old son Rowan to Emscote Primary School.
BBC: Plea to put siblings in same schools in Warwickshire
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In Worldreader's first test, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development at six schools in Ghana starting in 2010, the group found that primary-school students who got Kindles increased their performance on standardized reading tests from about 13% to 16%.
WSJ: Worldreader: An E-Book Revolution for Africa?
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In a primary school near a huge slum in Dhaka, pupils aged between six and 10 include the children of rickshaw drivers and women who break bricks for a living.
BBC: The harsh necessity of child labour
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Catherine, who is six months pregnant, was greeted by staff, volunteers and children at The Willows Primary School in Wythenshawe.
BBC: Duchess of Cambridge waving