2022-23: Year 11 Interventions (National Tutoring Programme)

Overview:

The national tutoring programme fund is being used to deliver targeted small group intervention to year 11 students from trained staff in the following subjects; Maths, English, Biology, Chemistry, geography, History, economics, business, computer science, drama, Psychology and food and nutrition. The small group intervention model involved 1 trained staff member tutoring 5 students in a group together for 1 hour per week, either before or after school, for a total of 1 week. We have also used our funding to use online providers through the mytutor company. These sessions are with online tutors in group sizes of 1 to 3.

 

Selection of students:

Year 11 students were identified and selected based on underperformance in key subjects with a bias towards PP students where appropriate, who would benefit from the small group intervention model to support them to catch up and consolidate their learning. A summary of the subjects, number of sessions per week and number of students involved is below.

Overview of number sessions per week in each subject

Subject	Sessions per week	Number of students
Maths	20	64
English	2	6
Biology	3	15
Chemistry	13	45
History	3	15
Geography	1	5
Economics	1	5
Business	4	20
Computer science	1	5
Media	1	5
Drama	1	5
Food and nutrition	1	5
Psychology	4	20

Impact:

From an impact perspective, the tutoring process has improved results.  For example, in English Literature, Maths and Chemistry, the pupils that were engaged in tutoring the following results were achieved: -

Maths – 43 pupils

4+: 95%

5+: 41%

English Literature - 5 pupils

4+: 100%

5+: 50%

Chemistry – 30 pupils

4+: 87%

5+: 51%

 

Use of the Recovery Premium 2021/22

Year 11 Small Group Intervention:

Overview:

The recovery premium was used to deliver targeted small group intervention to year 11 students from trained staff in the following subjects; Maths, English, Biology, History, Spanish, Psychology and PE. The small group intervention model involved 1 trained staff member tutoring 3 students in a group together for 1 hour per week, either before or after school, for a total of 11 weeks.

Selection of students:

Year 11 students were identified and selected based on underperformance in key subjects with a bias towards English and maths attainment, who would benefit from the small group intervention model to support them to catch up and consolidate their learning. A summary of the subjects, number of sessions per week and number of students involved is below.

Impact:

Analysis of the small group intervention programme shows it was an effective way to support students to catch up and consolidate learning. 73% of students involved improved their attainment by 1-3 sublevels when comparing their attainment at the start of the tutoring to their final GCSE result in their tutored subject. Using the same measure 37% of students improved their attainment by 4+ sublevels.

Overview of number sessions per week in each subject

Subject	Revision sessions per week	Number of students
Maths	11	36
English	8	27
Biology	4	12
History	3	9
Spanish	3	9
Psychology	3	9
PE	1	3

 

Key Stage 3

In addition to the above programme we also ran a smaller KS3 intervention programme, after school across a number of subjects.  This ran in June and July 2022 across curriculum areas such as maths, geography, IT, drama and English.