plans for one to one tuition blocked by Tories

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This makes me very sad.
'Reforms of the primary school curriculum, allowing schools greater flexibility to tailor teaching to their children, have also been shelved, as have catch-up lessons, one-to-one tuition and small group support for pupils needing extra support.'
The rest of the reforms I am not too bothered about but one to one tuition and small group support is so important.

There's no ideal solution. When I looked down my class list at possible children to put forward to the Head for consideration, all those who stood out were the very ones who were at risk of not "qualifying" on other grounds.
So there was the child who is falling behind quite significantly (due in part to a chaotic and violent home-life) but who has had a large chunk of absence (some unexplained, some unauthorised holiday, some range of minor illnesses) and gets so little sleep that he cannot sustain the concentration required for the session.
Or the child who we think would benefit, but whose mother thinks it would be "too much" for him and keeps him off school any day where there's something going on that he doesn't like the look of.
Or the girl who "doesn't want to do it" and the parent won't push it.
Or the bright kid who knows perfectly well how to construct complex sentences and use commas, but refuses to do so in written work as it's too much effort?
Or the child who missed the whole of KS1 (abroad) and needs a load of catchup, but whose parents took her out of school for 3 weeks on holiday, just as the scheme was starting?

Yes - sounds all too familiar, Clam, unfortunately.

I would still rather see the scheme go ahead - at least it's been a success for the 8 children who've benefitted so far.

Better vote Labour then, people. The Tories will never help these children .

What about autistic children? Will they still be eligible for ABA which is 1 to 1, or is that still safe?

Why on earth do you say that, wahwah?

Anyway, my point was that even when the help and support has been made available, there are some (just some) families who just aren't interested.

Clam it is still an organisational problem within your school. I am doing 121 tuition and it is organised so I go to the houses of the students in evenings and weekends. No extended days no need for organisation on parents behalf. Obviously there are somw who are not interested - that is life but I have to be honest that I am not sure holidays are the best time to do it.

I used to one to one tuition. The children I taught all made progress but I was always glad that I only had them for 10 weeks. It was so intensive that we all got very bored. And I am quite a fun and funky teacher!

I prefer tuition in small groups (5-6 children of similar ability). The kids enjoy it more and you get more out of them. Small group tuition is at least as good as one to one and it is much more cost effective!

If you are interested in small group tuition look at this video:

Another wah wah nasty Tories cuts.

The question is if you want 1-2-1 tuition, what would you cut instead to make the money available?

I'm sure someone else will be bothered about the "other" reforms which you are not.

I don't think this was a cut. It was a planned expansion in the final weeks of the last administration that was never approved and passed. Not a cut to the ore-existing levels.

And as this is over year old, I think it's been overtaken by other initiatives anyhow.