Summer schools ‘to aid catch-up’
A wave of 2,000 new summer schools will put 65,000 disadvantaged children on an “equal footing” with their peers, Nick Clegg said yesterday.
The Deputy Prime Minister, who announced plans for the two-week “brain training” camps across England at the Liberal Democrat party conference last year, said the initiative will allow struggling pupils leaving primary school to “get to grips with life” at secondary level.
As well as catch-up classes in literacy and numeracy, the summer schools will hold sessions to allow youngsters to get to know their new teachers as well as arts, music or sport.
Around £50m has been made available to schools through the pupil premium.