No-one wants to see young talent wasted “on an industrial scale”, as Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, recently put it. He was talking about the poor progress made by the brightest disadvantaged children once they leave primary school.
His comments hit home because parts of Hounslow, where our academy is situated, sit in the most deprived areas in England. Indeed, 91 per cent of pupils come from ethnic minority groups, with
61 per cent speaking English as an additional language (EAL). Many of our students are from homes with unemployed parents or low income and we also have some students with disruptive and challenging behaviour.
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