Isle of Wight education

The principal of the school said reducing the pupil intake would assist them in providing stability in its long-term planning.

The data for 2017/18 Truancy Penalty Notices (98% of them term time holidays) has been analysed by Jon Platt. He says they're so high that's it an average of one penalty notice for every seven school children - a huge increase on previous years.

The wide breadth of university courses chosen by Sixth Form pupils is testament to the way Ryde School helps pupils achieve their individual ambitions. Find out more at the next Open Evening event.

Vix Lowthion says every single child in our schools is being affected by "these appalling cuts to SEND education support for our most vulnerable and isolated young people". She joined others calling for more government funding.

During 2017, the largest amount of referrals came from schools (27 per cent), police made 25 per cent of referrals and 13 per cent came from health.

Some good news for the Isle of Wight, according to standards set by the DfE, more five-year-olds on the Island achieved a good level of development in 2018.

Figures released by the DfE look at how many pupils on the Isle of Wight were classed as persistently absent in autumn 2017 and spring 2018 terms.

Congratulations to the students from Isle of Wight based music college, Platform One, who in the last week graduated with Masters in Music Industry Innovation and Enterprise.

Pupils from this Primary School will be joining others around the country and doing the Floss to raise awareness of cuts to school funding.

The figures, based on teacher assessments of pupils' first years at school, show how children from disadvantaged backgrounds on the Isle of Wight compare to their classmates.

Following on from yesterday's report about this year's GCSE results, see the detail of individual schools.