Organise catch-up summer schools to help disadvantaged pupils, UK told

Children’s commissioner concerned that by September millions of students will have missed six months of school

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Pressure is mounting on the government to draw up plans for catch-up summer schools amid warnings that millions of pupils in England will face increasing distractions from home learning as lockdown measures are eased and shops reopen.

The children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said headteachers were worried that some of their disadvantaged pupils would struggle to ever get back into doing school work after such prolonged closures, because the leap required would be so big.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2XrZ1gU