programme to ensure all pupils are having weekly opportunities within the curriculum to help them understand their emotions better and how to form positive relationships. We will investigate further emotional literacy programmes from our pupils could benefit. We have arranged our classes next session to allow our senior pupils to spend much of their time in a mainstream classroom in preparation for their move to secondary school. Staff are well informed about A significant number of our Good 3.2 Raising the national poverty related pupils are attaining in line with attainment and attainment gap as well as the their mainstream peers. For achievement gap that exists between deaf those who are not, the gap children and their hearing between their attainment and peers from similar SIMDs. that of their mainstream peers Teacher expectation is is narrowing. continuously challenged to ensure that we never use a child’s deafness as an excuse for lower attainment. Raising attainment is understood by staff to be the school’s main focus.
programme to ensure all pupils are having weekly opportunities within the curriculum to help them understand their emotions better and how to form positive relationships. We will investigate further emotional literacy programmes from our pupils could benefit. We have arranged our classes next session to allow our senior pupils to spend much of their time in a mainstream classroom in preparation for their move to secondary school. 3.2 Raising attainment and achievement Staff are well informed about the national poverty related attainment gap as well as the gap that exists between deaf children and their hearing peers from similar SIMDs. Teacher expectation is continuously challenged to ensure that we never use a child’s deafness as an excuse for lower attainment. Raising attainment is understood by staff to be the school’s main focus. A significant number of our pupils are attaining in line with their mainstream peers. For those who are not, the gap between their attainment and that of their mainstream peers is narrowing. Good