How the pandemic has affected child development in one primary school in north-east England.
The parents are worried too about how behaviour and confidence have changed visibly in their children."They seem to be more irritable, their tempers seem to be more high. They're not engaging properly and they're not even working nicely as a group any more."She has found it harder to persuade her two to go out and play with other children, but says being back at school is helping.
Changing children and supporting toilet training diverts the time and energy of teachers and teacher assistants, away from their top priority of helping pupils learn. Research by the Education Policy Institute for the government shows that this time last year primary children in the North East had lost five months of learning in maths.
More than a third of children in the primary qualify for pupil premium, the top-up funding for children who have been entitled to free school meals in recent years.Ashington was once a coal town, but the pit closed in the 1980s, two decades after the rail link to Newcastle was lost. At these two Ashington schools, their share has helped pay for small-group tutoring and a summer school for children moving up from primary to secondary.
But Year 11s are getting an extra half an hour, four times a week, and all have laptops to help them study at home.
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