The efficacy of initiatives which use the long summer break to prepare children for life at secondary school has been the subject of much debate. But evidence from a recent evaluation of the government’s Summer Schools programme seems to suggest that such schemes can have a genuine and positive impact on the young people they are intended to serve.
Launched in September 2011 by the Department for Education (DfE), the programme provides funding to schools, as part of the Pupil Premium, to help disadvantaged pupils make a successful transition to year 7.
It targets pupils eligible for free school meals (for 2013’s Summer Schools programme, this will include those pupils who have been eligible for FSM at any point in the past six years) and those looked after continuously for more than six months by the local authority.
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