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2.4 Types of attainment-raising activities
Summary : Attainment-raising plans provided a ‘ menu ’ of activities that partnerships often tailored for schools on a case-by-case basis , and depended on what partnerships felt they could confidently deliver to meet school needs . Partnerships delivered activities that centered around :
▪ Metacognition
▪ Study / Revision Skills
▪ Literacy / Comprehension / Oracy
▪ Subject specific tutoring
▪ Non-academic barriers to learning
Attainment-raising plans provided a ‘ menu ’ of activities that partnerships often tailored for schools on a case-by-case basis , depending on what partnerships felt they could confidently deliver to meet schools ’ needs . Partnerships were delivering multiple attainment-raising ‘ projects ’ to offer schools a range of options . In some cases , partnership programme packages were designed to layer on top of each other . This intends to gradually develop learners ’ skills and knowledge as they participate in a programme each year .
“ We chose Key Stage 3 because we recognise that if we can keep having interventions throughout their school career , if we can do something with them each year , then we can obviously help attainment at the end of Year 11 . So , we try to be long sighted , rather than short sighted .” ( Delivery partner )
The most common types of activities reported in interviews centred around : metacognition , study / revision skills , literacy ( with a focus on reading comprehension and spelling ) and subject specific tutoring . As shown in Figure 2.4 , this is supported by the school survey results , which found that 58 % took part in revision / study skills sessions , 28 % took part in metacognition , 28 % took part in subject specific tutoring and 27 % took part in literacy activities ( Figure 5 ). The main subjects that activities focused on were English ( 45 %) and Maths ( 27 %) ( Annex B : Figure B4 ).
“ We have a reading programme . We also have some metacognition workshops and study skills workshops that we ’ ve developed . We have maths online tutoring and English online tutoring , so they ’ re the four things that we picked .” ( Partnership lead )
Approximately half of partnerships planned to deliver CPD activities , however most of these were yet to be delivered with only 14 % of school survey respondents reporting that they had taken part in CPD through this strand .
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