Key stage 4 PEPs: Guidance Page 18 Y10 should be considering work experience. However, a target that and decide on work experience is a target for the reads ‘to research placement’ whole year group. It is important to consider whether there is any further support needed based on the individual needs of the pupil in care. It might be the skills needed to complete a form, use public transport or confidence with meeting new people. Key stage 4 pupils need to be able to revise and schools will be providing revision clinics. It is not a target a revision the whole year ‘to attend clinic’- group will be doing this, equally it is not a target revise for If the needs analysis identifies difficulties with study skills and revision, the ‘to Geography’. targets need to focus on the skills need to help the pupil with this. For example if a pupil is struggling to organise their time to revise and attend clinics, the target should relate to developing executive function skills. It may be that the target is to develop study skills and the intervention will be support with revision techniques specifically, the impact will be the application of these skills to revision in a specific subject area. It is important to remember that working memory is often not functioning at its best for a CIC due to delayed development and previous trauma. All teachers need to be aware that just because a pupil appears to be able to apply their thinking on one day, they may not have the working memory to apply it another day of metacognitively transfer their thinking/skill to another subject area. This is a common area of need/difficulty for CIC in KS4. The final year at school for a CIC is another transition where vulnerability is magnified; it is full of uncertainty about post 16 education/employment options and for some a change in care arrangements. It is an ending and this can trigger previous emotions. It also a year full of big events like the school prom, the final year photograph and goodbyes to key adults that have been attachment figures. PEP interventions should capture the pro active support that will be available to CIC pupils to support their emotional well being.
Guidance Page 18 Key stage 4 PEPs: Y10 should be considering work experience. However, a target that reads ‘to research and decide on work experience placement’ is a target for the whole year group. It is important to consider whether there is any further support needed based on the individual needs of the pupil in care. It might be the skills needed to complete a form, use public transport or confidence with meeting new people. Key stage 4 pupils need to be able to revise and schools will be providing revision clinics. It is not a target ‘to attend a revision clinic’- the whole year group will be doing this, equally it is not a target ‘to revise for Geography’. If the needs analysis identifies difficulties with study skills and revision, the targets need to focus on the skills need to help the pupil with this. For example if a pupil is struggling to organise their time to revise and attend clinics, the target should relate to developing executive function skills. It may be that the target is to develop study skills and the intervention will be support with revision techniques specifically, the impact will be the application of these skills to revision in a specific subject area. It is important to remember that working memory is often not functioning at its best for a CIC due to delayed development and previous trauma. All teachers need to be aware that just because a pupil appears to be able to apply their thinking on one day, they may not have the working memory to apply it another day of metacognitively transfer their thinking/skill to another subject area. This is a common area of need/difficulty for CIC in KS4. The final year at school for a CIC is another transition where vulnerability is magnified; it is full of uncertainty about post 16 education/employment options and for some a change in care arrangements. It is an ending and this can trigger previous emotions. It also a year full of big events like the school prom, the final year photograph and goodbyes to key adults that have been attachment figures. PEP interventions should capture the pro active support that will be available to CIC pupils to support their emotional well being.