Immediate activity No discussion, no notes, no books

Marking each others work Swap your answers with another person and mark it using the above mark scheme. Please write peer assessed in the margin as I will be teacher assessing them also

What are the impacts of material deprivation on education? 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.

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.

If you are struggling with how to start Your task Then test your understanding by completing the following exam question: Outline three ways in which external factors cause working class children to be at an educational disadvantage. (6 marks) Structure for 6 mark questions: 3 x 1 sentence to describe a factor followed by 2 sentences to explain. Make sure that it is always relevant to the question the use of appropriate sociologists always helps to convince the examiner that you know the topic well. One external factor which impacts the educational achievement of working class children is……………………………… which was discussed by……………who are argued that……………….. This places working class children at a disadvantage because…… If you are struggling with how to start