MORE than 200,000 pupils may be leaving primary school without basic reading and writing, figures suggest.
He warned that Covid has been a natural disaster for the nation’s children and should be as high a priority as the NHS. Ministers have laid out plans for a £3billion scheme, including extra funding for two weeks of summer school for pupils going into secondary school. He has repeatedly called for an army of volunteers to be drafted into schools to help children catch up — something being considered by Sir Kevan Collins, who is leading a review of the impact of Covid on schoolkids.
I didn’t even learn how to read or spell until year 8 or year 9. - I’m ashamed about that honestly.
mammaham So who’s fault is that, the parents on their phones all day instead of sitting them down with a book.
For parents who say ‘I read to my children every night’ I think unless very young THEY need to be reading to YOU every night, sounding out the words with your help🤷♀️🤔
It’s been happening in our country for years! Kid are forced into a institution for 16 yrs, the input method doesn’t work for all kids. And the ones it didn’t work for got wrote off before even high school. If education is a human right....
Exactly ! My daughter reads with her 10 year old every night. I always read with my children.
Decent parents wouldn’t let it come to that. Read every night with your child.