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• Knowsley celebrates primary progress

Knowsley is celebrating progress in many of its primary schools which are showing significant improvement on previous years in the Primary school league tables published today (December 6).

One of its schools, Our Lady’s in Prescot, is celebrating 100 per cent of its pupils achieving the expected level 4 or above in English, maths and science tests and Prescot Primary School appears in the national table of top 100 schools for Contextual Value Added. Eastcroft Park School in Kirkby and Overdale School in Kirkby are among the schools showing the most improvement.

Overall, in the contextual value added table Knowsley is 19th in the country. Knowsley has seen improvements in all three subjects and outstripped the national average rate of improvement. In English, there has been a three percentage point increase over last year compared with a national one percentage point. It has moved up 20 places in the national table. In both maths and science there has been a 2 percentage point increase compared to one percentage point nationally. This has resulted in a seven place improvement in the maths table and a leap of nine places in the science table.

Councillor Graham Wright, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services said: “We are committed to giving all our pupils the best education and we have three exciting new primary schools in development – a new two form entry school in the Northwood area of Kirkby; a joint Catholic and Anglican primary on the site of the new North Huyton Learning Centre and the redevelopment of Greengates School in Halewood as a new two form entry school. Although Knowsley’s figures are still slightly below the national average the above average rate of improvement is pleasing and shows that we are moving in the right direction.”

For more detailed information about your local primary school, visit the BBC website.

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