SUMMER schools camps and extra cash are on the cards to help disadvantaged kids catch up on school learning in the next few months. Chair of the Commons Education Committee and Conservative MP Robe…
SUMMER schools camps and extra cash are on the cards to help disadvantaged kids catch up on school learning in the next few months.
He told The Sun: "The most likely thing is summer school or mentoring and a catch up premium - it would be like a school camp run by volunteers." "Schools are not just there for education but they are the organisation that gives a kid a hot meal, they providing counselling, mentoring, support, it has to be education but it also has to be a reorientation - reorientation kids back into schools because they've been away 10-11 weeks."
Mr Hobby said an intense summer-school style catch up would help kids not fall behind - but warned there would need to be long term extra support to make up for lost time. As many as 700,000 students don't have computers at home, but 95 per cent of households have a television, so the initiative could help reach the children who have not been able to access access learning online platforms.
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