[senco-forum] Literacy Support

Hi,

Obviously your head is a very ambitious man / woman and wishes to impress
those above with unthinking adherence to a policy.  Children's needs are not
the agenda, he / she really needs to very carefully read what the cop says
and also the NLS.  I can see a well informed parent making big waves, I
would if one of my children needed one ot one, all the research shows that
for significant difficulties of whatever kind the best approach is one to
one.  This just confirms the gist of my last contribution.  Policy should be
dictated by research and not the egos and career aspirations of the
ambitious.

Philip EP
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From: "Derek Bond" <sanddbond at hotmail.com>
To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:57 AM
Subject: [senco-forum] Literacy Support

> Hi,
>
> I am new to this, so please be patient with me.
>
> My name is Sue and I am a senior school SENCO and E2L manager in the south
> west.
>
> I would appreciate your views on a school situation I have as I am trying
to
> work out the best approach to my head teacher.
>
> I am not allowed to withdraw pupils for anything other than assessment.
>
> Additional literacy support takes place either before or after school but
> some pupils (generally the most needy) do not attend, despite our best
> efforts, involving parent, bribing through rewards etc. This means that we
> have pupils with very low reading and spelling levels not accessing any
> specific support for these skills!!! I have now been told to provide
> literacy support programmes for these children during their 35 minute
lunch
> break. These are children who have concentration problems, no automaticity
> of literacy skill and often have some social problems as well. They would
be
> working for 3 1/2 hour without a proper break. Is this acceptable??!!
>
> Your views please, plus any suggestions.
>
> Sue
>
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