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Children in Southwark
Southwark Overview—Las Palmas, January 2012 Prep visit
An inner London Borough
Location of the Greater London Mayor’s Office
Location of famous Tower Bridge
Thriving Cultural & Tourist area
--But also dense housing and areas of great deprivation
An area of contrasts...
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Child Population• 55,000 Children aged 0-16 live in
Southwark
• Nearly 37,000 go to school in Southwark
• 4 in 10 are eligible for free school meals compared to just over 1 in 10 nationally
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Southwark Classroom25-30 pupilsMixture of provision• community schools• Church schools• foundation schools• academies Improving IT infrastructureOne teacher plus one or more teaching
assistants4.5 - 5 hours of teaching a dayCore curriculum but freedom over deliveryFormal testing, nationally reported at 4, 8,11,
14,16 and 18. New Government means change is underway.
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Schools in Southwark
36,730Total
176PRUs (3)
452Special (7)
4,711Academies* (6)
8,333Secondary* (9)
22,540Primary (72)
518Nursery (5)
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School Population
30%
26%
14%
7%
6%
5%
12%
Black African
White British
Black Caribbean
Mixed
Chinese
Asian
Other
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Child Population
• 40% first exposed to a language other than English at home (EAL)
• 1 in 3 pupils at the end of primary school joined their school after their peers
• 587 Children are looked after by Southwark
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Languages
• How many different languages are spoken in Southwark schools?
a) 8b) 59c) 174d) 576
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Issues• Large number of new arrivals at any one time• Low levels of income• Expectations of children often too low• Large proportion of social housing• Underinvestment in council property going back many years
• Outcomes rapidly improving• £400m invested in secondary schools 2002-2015• £150m in primary schools
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Learning Opportunities for Young People in Southwark
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Life in and around Life in and around SouthwarkLife in and around Southwark
Schools
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Housing
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Tourism & Culture
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Goldsmiths• --is a constituent college of the University of London. Based in
New Cross, London, Goldsmiths specialises in the teaching and research of creative, cultural and cognitive disciplines.
• The institution was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute. It was acquired by the University of London in 1904 and was renamed Goldsmiths' College. The word 'College' was dropped from its branding in 2006, but "Goldsmiths' College", with the apostrophe, remains the institution's formal legal name.
• Goldsmiths is best known for courses and research relating to creativity and culture—design, media studies, music, sociology, psychology…and teacher training.
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