Schools to get £1.3 million for one-to-one tuition

Rochdale schools are to receive £1.3 million to help children catch up on the three Rs and encourage stronger discipline in the classroom.

Children who have fallen behind in reading, writing and arithmatic will receive one-to-one tuition to help them get up to speed.

Meanwhile, parents will receive online information about their child’s behaviour, progress and attainment.

Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin is backing the initiative. He said: “We now need to go even further with a new ‘3Rs guarantee’ of catch-up support, including one-to-one tuition, for children in primary school and in the first year of secondary school who are falling behind in English and maths.

“Parents also tell me they want their children to learn in an orderly school where discipline is tough and the bad behaviour of a few, which disrupts the learning of the rest of the class, is not tolerated. So I support plans for tougher home-school agreements, with all pupils and parents accepting the school’s rules when they apply for a school place – and clear consequences if they are broken."