We are a small junior school in a nice village on the outskirts of a difficult town. Most of the children come from the village, but a significant minority come from the town.
The Assessment Coordinator and I have been analysing data this week and we have both noticed that children under-performing are overwhelmingly from single parent families. Obviously, we weren't looking for this as a factor - it just became glaringly obvious during the course of the meeting.
I know that as we are small, this may not "mean" anything (3 of my FSM pupils look likely to get sixes in their SATs, for example)
But is there anything I can do to tackle this? Single parent families aren't exactly a vulnerable group. Is this a trend in data or is it just circumstance?
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StuffezLaYoni · 11/06/2013 19:25
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