Immediate activity No discussion, no notes, no books Using one example explain why social class my affect educational achievement (2 marks)

What are the impacts of material deprivation on education? In 2015 5.1 million children were living in households with an income below the ‘minimum standard income’ placing them in poverty impact of material deprivation on education

Joseph Rowntree report Poor children do worse at every educational stage. They have a smaller vocabulary by the age of three. Only 31% are performing at the expected level when they enter school Compared to 53% of children who are not poor. By the time they get to university age, only 13% of poor children will go on to higher education, compared to 32% of their non-poor peers. Children living in poverty will suffer worse health throughout their lifetimes: between 2002 and 2006, life expectancy at birth for boys in the lowest social class was almost six years shorter than those in the top group, and for girls the difference was four years.

Impacts of poverty on educational achievement Read the article and pick out 3 key points about the impact of poverty on educational achievement For each point annotate why this would have a lasting impact on a child’s educational achievement. https://www.theguardian.com/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2014/oct/29/childrens-commission-experience-poverty-schools-in-their-own-words

Callender & Jackson fear of debt means that working class students are 5x less likely to apply to university

Bob’s bad day Bob is a working class teenager, who hates school we are going to get an insight into his day and see why. Your job is to highlight where material deprivation, cultural deprivation and lacking cultural capital cause problems for him.

Your task complete the following exam question: Outline three ways in which external factors cause working class children to be at an educational disadvantage. (6 marks)