Introduction
The SUN provided funding to Xxxxx Community School to support attainment raising activities in English and maths:
- Tutoring: 12 weeks of tutoring( 8 staff delivering 1 hour per week over 12 weeks across English and maths)
- Intensives: full day sessions 9 days for English and 6 days for maths
The school’ s aim was to raise attainment of Year 11 students in English and maths, as students underperformed in these areas and to improve their confidence, motivation, and engagement. The SUN had worked with Xxxxx Community School in the past as one of top priority target schools with high number of Uni Connect learners to support them with Small Project Fund projects and numerous events and therefore had established strong working relationship with the school.
Xxxxx Community School 1 has 49.80 % Free School Meals with 7.9 % disadvantaged students achieving Grade 5 or above in English and maths( as opposed to 17.40 %( all)).
The school decided to target four groups of students: underachieving boys, underachieving girls, underachieving shine and grades 3 / 4 borderline students.
Underachieving shine: students who were classed as Most Able from their SATS / Teacher assessed grades who achieved a score on their MidYis test of above 110 or above 110 on their SATS scores. The students selected were those in that category who were not predicted to achieve their target grade.
Underachieving boys: boys who were not predicted to achieve their target grade but could achieve this with support and intervention.
Underachieving girls: girls who were not predicted to achieve their target grade but could achieve this with support and intervention.
3 / 4 borderline students: students who were on the borderline of getting grade 3 or 4 in a subject.
English ran 3 sessions of full days with each of the key groups and maths ran 2 sessions. Staff were selected to plan and design sessions suited around the needs of the students in each of the key groups. They spent full days with the students working on raising attainment and delivering key knowledge / skills to close the gaps.
How was the evaluation conducted?
- Pre- / post- surveys created by the SUN, distributed by Xxxxx Community School and completed by students- Final project report provided by Xxxxx Community School( see Appendix 1 for full report)- Teacher Interview conducted online by Project Leader
1 https:// www. find-school-performance-data. service. gov. uk /