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FEATURE FOCUS: THE SUMMER LEARNING GAP


Preventing the ‘summer slide’ I


n our final look at closing the summer learning gap this month, we speak to


Wayne Norrie, Chief Executive of Greenwood Academies Trust, who looks at the ways schools can encourage a passion for learning beyond the classroom.


With the summer holidays fast approaching, pupils naturally begin to unwind and look forward to a well-earned break. And while the phrase ‘work hard, play hard’ has a place, there is sometimes a concern that six weeks of complete downtime can be detrimental to learning and engagement. The ‘summer slide’, as it’s sometimes referred to, is when pupils experience a loss of knowledge and academic skills because of the gap in learning over a period of time - in this case the summer holidays. Dr James Lane, an education expert, told The


Huffington Post UK that it takes on average six weeks to re-teach pupils the material that has been forgotten during the summer holidays. So what can schools do to encourage a passion for learning beyond the classroom in order to minimise the risk of a summer slump?


The Pop-Up Festival The term leading up to the summer holidays is key for encouraging more pupils to continue learning. Our teachers plan lessons that encourage pupils to find out more information


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independently, or lessons which spark a curiosity to explore and learn during the holidays. An initiative that we’ve had great success with recently was the Pop-Up Festival; a literacy initiative that brings young people and authors together to help instil a love of reading. Across Greenwood Academies Trust, 12 of our


academies in Corby and Skegness recently took part in the festival, which is supported by The Mighty Creatives and is run in partnership with our Trust. Now in its second year, the Pop-Up


Festival was developed to ‘take over’ literacy and English lessons for six weeks in 50 schools across the country and bring literature and illustrations to life for children and young people. One of the great things about the initiative is its broad appeal to all ages; across our 12 academies in Corby and Skegness, pupils from nursery to year ten took part. Ahead of the festival’s two-week run, during


term time, pupils had the opportunity to read and research over 170 book titles by 100 authors and


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