Intervention strategies.
Intervening early to help pupils who are struggling at primary level can dramatically improve their education thereafter. Pupils who leave primary at Level 3 attainment only have a 10-14% chance of obtaining five A-C GCSEs whereas those at Level 4 have a far higher success rate. We visit three schoo...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[England] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2009.
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| Series: | Education in video
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Intervening early to help pupils who are struggling at primary level can dramatically improve their education thereafter. Pupils who leave primary at Level 3 attainment only have a 10-14% chance of obtaining five A-C GCSEs whereas those at Level 4 have a far higher success rate. We visit three schools to see how each boosts both those needing special help and also whole school attainment. At Calverton School in Newham we follow a lively Communication Language and Literacy Development Year 1 group who are making excellent progress with phonics. We also see how a Class 5 withdrawal group are encouraged to improve their use of descriptive words by commenting on the taste of sweets. At Southbury Primary in Enfield, where 80% of the pupils have English as an additional language, we see how a Talk to Learn project has lifted attainment. Finally, we visit Preston Park Primary in Brent where the maths teacher has had 8,500 hits on her Maths Forum help page for her Class 5 and 6. Intervening early to help pupils struggling at primary level can dramatically improve their education thereafter. Pupils leaving primary at Level 3 attainment only have a 10 - 14% chance of obtaining five A-C GCSEs whereas those at Level 4 have a 70% success rate. At Preston Manor High School in Brent we visit an early morning early intervention breakfast club where Year 7 pupils are helped to reach Level 4. We also eavesdrop on a Year 9 cross curriculum group who have been given the task of finding out which of three teacher suspects murdered their head of year. The poor man is murdered every year for the sake of boosting attainment! At Heathcote Secondary in Waltham Forest, staff try to interest their pupils in a Study Plus early intervention class by providing the applied maths skills needed to compare the cost of bargain villas in Spain. It is obviously working since last year nine out of ten students boosted their expected D grade in GSCE maths to that all-important C. |
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