Last year a government-commissioned report raised concern over primary pupils' performance in the subject.
In total, 0.68% of half days were skipped by primary pupils, up from 0.65% over the same period.
The Labour Party's election manifesto did promise to "provide primary pupils with wider opportunities to learn.. a foreign language".
This national average included wide regional variations - from 47.5% of primary pupils in Tower Hamlets to 4.2% in Wokingham.
This problem is worse among primary pupils, says the Kellogg's report, because they find it harder than secondary pupils to "fend for themselves".
The city's first Gaelic School opened in 1999 for primary pupils, then relocated to the site of the former Woodside Secondary School in 2006.
The ablest primary pupils in England almost match those in Taiwan and Hong Kong in maths but fall back by the time they are 16, a study suggests.
"It may not be appropriate to use calculators for the whole of the maths test paper, but it is a retrograde step to ban them completely as it will diminish the skills set for primary pupils and leave them floundering in secondary school".
Primary age pupils are more likely to move schools mid-year than those at secondary school.
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Bun-sgoil Ghaidhlig Inbhir Nis has a role of 169 primary school pupils and 94 nursery pupils.
Bun-sgoil Ghaidhlig Inbhir Nis has more than 160 primary school pupils and almost 100 nursery pupils.
Medway Council's School Organisation Plan is based on forecasts of a 2, 629 increase in primary school pupils.
Last month, about two-thirds of the 24, 000 eligible primary seven pupils sat both of this year's hour-long examinations.
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In Caerphilly county, a bus carrying Abercarn Primary School pupils went off Llanfach Road, which was covered in slush and snow.
The vaccinations will be carried out at all secondary schools but primary school pupils will also be targeted through their GPs.
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One in four primary school pupils is either overweight or obese, as well as one in five teenagers and 60% of adults.
Ms Davidson was in Ceredigion on Thursday to see how a scheme known as the Jac project has benefited primary school pupils.
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The government has already confirmed that the number of training places will be cut this year, reflecting declining numbers of primary age pupils.
From January, Blackpool's 12, 000 primary school pupils are to receive free milk, fruit juice, cereal or toast as part of a three-month trial.
Sophie and Georgina had seen a story in the press about the issue of homework for primary school pupils, and whether it should be scrapped.
But the number of primary school pupils in England missing school without permission in the autumn term of 2009 and spring term of 2010 has risen slightly.
In October 1999 there was one modern computer for every 23 pupils in primary and one for every eight pupils in secondary schools.
The levels of delay detected in primary education indicate that many pupils are still attending primary education when they have reached secondary school age.
In Brazil, for example, 24 percent of primary-school pupils and 18 percent of secondary students are repeaters.
On Monday, councillors voted to back plans to close Llanddona primary and transfer pupils three miles (5km) to Ysgol Llangoed.
The minister emphasised the importance of improving numeracy and literacy standards at primary schools so pupils are on a level playing field when they reach secondary school.
Even the youngest Kenyans are affected: people in Nairobi were stunned in June when primary-school pupils went on a rampage for several hours, stoning cars and blocking roads.
The Glenearn Community Campus, which will be renamed Inch View Primary School, will house 80 full time nursery pupils and 350 primary children.
If the Prosperous Suburbia Primary School has 60% of pupils receiving private tuition while the Deprived Inner City Primary has none, then how much of a guide are the league tables to the relative quality of teaching at these two schools?
Language teaching will now start in primary schools, when pupils are seven years old.
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