Cartmel Prioryschool

We provide support for all areas of the curriculum. Some of this will be support within the classroom and during timetabled lessons, but there are also many other activities which we run during the year. These include: Homework club - This is open to all students for half of their lunch time. They can use this time to access support, computers and... equipment they may need to complete any homework. Reading - At the beginning of the year we assess all children's reading ages, we then examine these and select students who may benefit from one-to-one reading time - this takes place during registration two mornings a week and is either with one of the support assistants or a year 10 mentor. Touch-typing - This is a year long course which takes place during one morning of registration. We are hoping to increase the number of students able to attend, but at the moment this is only available for students who have presented difficulties in this area. Additional maths and English - We have successfully run programmes for English for a few years now and this has been for years 7 - 9. We work closely with the English department to decide who will benefit most from these sessions and then the students are placed into groups of six and spend two hours a week for six weeks working on different areas such as spelling and punctuation. We are currently extending our training for intervention in maths and hope to provide additional support for this in the future. 1-1 Intervention - Where we feel a child will benefit from 1-1 withdrawal we will assess the child's needs and where possible offer additional support just for them. All teaching staff will be asked if there is anything they would like us to provide anything extra for the particular child and if not we will work on feelings, emotions and anger management should this be needed. English as an additional languagesupport - We have recently been undergoing training and development to increase our ability to support students with English as additional language (EAL). We have ...Read More