Primary education across London is set to benefit from new government grants.
The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has issued the grants to London primary schools to improve literacy and numeracy.
Bexley will receive about £777,244 out of a total London-wide grant of £24,708,386 to spend on raising standards throughout primary schools.
But the borough is receiving one of the lowest grants in the capital, along with Merton, Kensington and Wandsworth.
The LEA hopes the money will help to consolidate and improve its position in the recent primary school league tables.
It will help introduce a series of new measures such as booster classes for ten and eleven-year-olds who need additional support, continued training for teachers, additional training for literacy and mathematics co-ordinators and the introduction of literacy expert teachers and leading maths teachers to support teachers.
A spokesman for the DfES said: "Over the last four years, there has been an improvement in Bexley's primary schools. But we can achieve so much more.
"Teachers have worked extremely hard to deliver the improvements which have been made. We are firmly committed to going forward together to maintain these high standards."
December 19, 2001 11:30
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