Results
Results
The Portsmouth Academy( Year 11 students):
Section 1: Results provided by Twenty Twenty Learning
In this five-day programme, of the 9 students who sat both initial and summative assessments for both papers:
• 2 students improved by 2 grades
• 5 students improved by 1 grade
• Average grade increase 1 grade
• 100 % of students improved on their raw score.
Additionally, Project 5 looks to improve attitudes, confidence and engagement in English, typically more difficult areas to quantify. This was measured through a pre and post programme questionnaires.
Key findings were:
• 92 % of students felt more confident about preparing for their English exams after the programme. In the pre-programme questionnaire, 8 % of students strongly agreed / agreed; in the post-programme questionnaire, 100 % of students strongly agreed / agreed.
• 45 % of students felt more confident about obtaining their target grade. In the pre-programme questionnaire, 46 % of students agreed; in the post-programme questionnaire, 91 % of students strongly agreed / agreed.
• 90 % of students enjoyed the programme( 45 % strongly agreed, 45 % agreed).
• 100 % of students found the programme useful( 91 % strongly agreed, 9 % agreed).
• 100 % of students felt their writing skills had improved( 73 % strongly agreed, 27 % agreed).
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Section 2: Findings from SUN Project Leader’ s interview with Vice Principal
The key findings from the interview were that the intensive, tailored support over five days, with strong leadership and relationship-building playing a crucial role and had a big impact on students’ confidence, attitude to the subject and mindset. The facilitator’ s personalised approach, including building strong relationships with each student and addressing their specific challenges, was key to the programme’ s success. Students could see tangible improvement and seem to have changed their mindset from“ I’ m going to fail” to“ I can do it!” This boost in confidence and visible progress( pre- post- programme assessments) greatly enhanced their engagement and belief in their abilities. The Vice Principal’ s feedback on the project was very positive including expressing interest in replicating and delivering a similar programme in-house due to the value they could see in the programme.
Key challenges included attendance issues and balancing participation with other subjects. Timing near exams was seen as optimal, though earlier implementation( e. g. January or February) was suggested to reduce exam-period pressures while still benefiting students. Other suggestions for improvement included flexible student attendance, as some of the students were unable to attend all sessions and there were students who could have taken their place for example for one day.
Section 3: Analysis of actual GCSE results
Twenty Twenty Learning’ s report mentioned 2 assessments: Paper: 1 Creative Writing and Paper 2: Paper 2 Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspective.
- Paper: 1 Creative Writing 0 % achieved pass mark in pre-assessment and 100 % passed in post assessment
- Paper 2: Paper 2 Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspective 0 % achieved pass mark in pre-assessment and 66.6 % passed in post assessment
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