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Tracking and Monitoring Educational Impact in Burngreave NDC

Tracking and Monitoring Educational Impact in Burngreave NDC. Ian Clifford Yemeni Community Association (Sheffield) Ltd. Burngreave NDC (BNDfC) Children and Young People’s Theme. Community Education Co-ordinators (Family learning Family Support / Attendance support / Family Advocacy

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Tracking and Monitoring Educational Impact in Burngreave NDC

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  1. Tracking and Monitoring Educational Impact in Burngreave NDC Ian Clifford Yemeni Community Association (Sheffield) Ltd

  2. Burngreave NDC (BNDfC) Children and Young People’s Theme • Community Education Co-ordinators (Family learning • Family Support / Attendance support / Family Advocacy • Community-based Study Support • Youth-work • Sports activity

  3. Tracking the Education Theme in Burngreave • Project to contract with Sheffield City Council Children and Young People’s Directorate (formerly LEA) Research and Analysis Section. • Separating out an area-based cohort of pupils for the BNDfC area from the Education Management System (EMS) database • Running a series of reports and analysis based on this area

  4. Area-based Data • Attainment: Key Stages, GCSEs • Attendance data • Analysis by ethnicity • Analysis by Free School Meal status • Analysis over time

  5. Key Stage 2 English - % Level 4+ Trends for BNDfC-resident Pupils

  6. GCSE Attainment

  7. Primary Attendance

  8. Attainment by ethnicity in BNDfC area

  9. Analysing Project-Level Impact • Robust information-sharing protocols • Comparing added-value of Young People who attend project with those who don’t • Extensively used in Burngreave to monitor and evaluate the impact of the community-based study support project

  10. Study Support – National Research John MacBeath et al (2001) Study of 8000 pupils: • Better than predicted attainment, attitudes and attendance. • Effects are large, one more A–C pass at GCSE.” • Cumulative effects: effects measurable in year x+1 • Indirect effects influencing motivation and self-esteem”. • BME groups benefit significantly more, especially girls. (MacBeath, J., Kirwan, T., Myers, K., Smith, I., McCall, J. and McKay E., (2001) The impact of Study Support: A study into the effects of participation in out-of-school-hours learning on the academic attainment, attitudes and attendance of secondary school students. DfEE)

  11. Community Study Support in Burngreave - 1 • Over 280 young people benefiting • Delivered as a consortium with Yemeni Community Association (Sheffield) Ltd (YCA) as lead provider • Mainly Somali, Pakistani, Yemeni and African-Caribbean pupils

  12. Community Study Support in Burngreave - 2 • Delivered in 5 locations – 4 community and 1 school • 9 hours a week, 40 weeks a year • Mainly English, Maths, Science. • Some sessions meeting broader Every Child Matters outcomes: dangers of drugs, weapons, PHSE, healthy living also some art, craft, sport etc

  13. Community Study Support in Burngreave - 3 • Involvement of the young people in focus groups and an evaluation conference to feed back and shape the project • Also provides opportunities for more integrated activities bringing young people from different backgrounds together

  14. Compliance with Data Protection Legislation Your personal information • Somali Education Breakthrough based at the 199 Verdon Street, Sheffield, S3 9QQ is a project set up to improve the educational attainment of Somali Young People in the Burngreave Area and will use this information for the purposes of providing high quality study support and for the other purposes set out below. If you have any questions regarding the handling of your personal information, please contact Mohamud Ambashe or Nisar Ahmed on 2759040. • The service provided by Somali Education Breakthrough is funded by Burngreave New Deal for Communities (BNDfC), Speedicut Works, Harleston Street, Sheffield S4 7QB through the Yemeni Community Association (YCA), The Vestry Hall, 43 Attercliffe Common, Sheffield. S9 2AE as lead partner for Burngreave Study Support Consortium (address c/o YCA as above). Those who take up the service should understand that Somali Education Breakthrough may disclose to the YCA and BNDfC the personal information you have given along with attendance information, if requested, in order to demonstrate that Study Support is being provided in return for funding. • Somali Education Breakthrough will also give information about attendance at the project to Sheffield City Council’s Children and Young People’s Directorate, for research and statistical purposes. The City Council will use this information to help make sure that everyone who can, benefits from the services Somali Education Breakthroughprovides. • I have read the above statement • Signed: (Student) ……………….…………………………………………………………………… • Signed: (Parent) .………………………………………….…… DATE …….………….…………..

  15. Study Support Value-Added

  16. Study Support Value-added • Even larger effect with some groups, e.g. Yemeni girls

  17. Study Support Added-Value • Multiplier effect when links with schools are close

  18. Future Developments - targeting • Identifying young people by ethnic group, school, who are achieving poorly – contacting the school to request referral • Modelling Vulnerability – ensuring more vulnerable pupils take-up projects – targeting those that don’t. • Exploring the relationship between different vulnerability factors.

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