20 schools in focus
PRIMARY UPDATE PICTURE STORY
What’s going on in the world of primary school and nursery management
ISLINGTON
Parent of deaf children campaigns for signing
in early years education A parent of two deaf children is petitioning Education Secretary Michael Gove to introduce sign language into every preschool and nursery in the country. Kathy Robinson, founder of the programme Signs for Success, which advocates the use of sign-supported English to help young children learn to speak, wants the signing of key words to support spoken English to be made mandatory under the early years curriculum.
Ruby and Alexia (both 10), of Pooles Park Primary School in Islington, London were invited to join an expert panel of food critics, restauranteurs, broadcasters and chefs for the blind tasting of the, 11 product categories at the Soil Association’s Organic Food Awards in July after the school won Best School Community Initiative for its organic garden
NURSERY NEWS Ofsted goes tough on nurseries
Ofsted is imposing rigorous new regulations for early years providers by replacing its ‘satisfactory’ grading with ‘requires improvement’ from November and giving establishments two years to turn things around before taking further action. Publishing the outcomes of the ‘Good early
years provision for all’ consultation, which sets out the inspectorate’s proposals for early years providers, Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, announced that ‘good’ will be the minimum standard expected. From 4 November, preschools and
nurseries requiring improvement will have a
maximum of two years to get to ‘good’ – otherwise they face the prospect of being judged ‘inadequate’. Sir Michael described children’s early
years as crucial and said that two years was long enough to create an improvement in a School’s grading. He commented: “As a nation, we spend
around £5bn a year on funded early education but too many preschools and nurseries across the country are not yet good, particularly in the most deprived areas. That’s why Ofsted is determined to introduce greater challenge into the early years sector.”
STATS & FACTS
The government is providing an additional 150m
150m to primary schools over each of the next two academic years to improve provision of physical education and sport
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She believes sign-supported English helps raise language and literacy levels for all children, including those with English as an additional language and special needs. She says when children sign they are more engaged, and concentrate and learn better. “Increasing numbers of children in the UK are entering nursery with little or no spoken language,” she said. “Such deprivation puts them at serious, maybe even lifelong, disadvantage.”
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