Study Support Development Programme

Presentations Study Support Web Links

Introduction

• to encourage and support schools in their on-going identification, implementation and development of a wide and appropriate range of out-of-class activities that:
  • to enable pupils to learn better by supporting improvement of their basic skills;
  • to extend the work that they do in class;
  • to enrich their experience by introducing them to valuable activities and experiences beyond the immediate curriculum;
  • to engage and create a sense of valuing of what schools have to offer for those pupils for who participation in school has become an ‘unpleasant chore’, in order to improve pupils’ achievement and raise their standards of attainment.
• to promote more effective approaches to inclusion and, in particular, to reduce the occurrence of social exclusion.

Along with the Standards Fund allocation if study support, the DfES has also allocated funding to the East Riding to participate in a pilot to investigate the extent of study support provision in our schools and its perceived effectiveness.

We have therefore appointed two experienced senior teachers, Lynn Barnitt (ex-Head of Cowick Primary School) and Mike Wynn (AST at Driffield School) on a part time basis to undertake the Study Development programme pilot survey work.

The aim of this activity is to identify good practice that can be shared between East Riding Schools, and that will also be made available on the national study support website, as well as here on eRiding.

As a first stage of this process, we have asked Lynn and Mike to undertake a survey of the current state of play in all schools, and then to arrange visits to those schools where there is evidence of good practice.

(Later, in the summer and autumn terms, there will be opportunities for you, or a member of staff, to attend a seminar at which the outcomes of this survey will be presented, together with strategies that will help us as an education community to improve further study support.)

We have sent schools a number of other documents, provided by the DfES, to assist you and your school in undertaking an audit of your school’s provision for study support.

We ask that you make these available for wider circulation to the staff in your school.

Study Support - A code of Practice for Primary Schools or

Study Support - The code of Practice for Secondary Schools and

The Essential Guide to the Impact of Study Support

Schools may wish to obtain help from the following document:

The study Support Toolkit - Making it work in Schools available from:

DfES Publictions
PO Box 5050
Sherwood Park
Annesley
Nottingham
NG15 0DJ
Tel: 0845 602 2260
Fax: 0845 603 3360
E-mail: dfee@logistics.co.uk

The government has allocated £384,280 to East Riding Schools for study support activities, within the new School Development Grant.

It is the view of the Development Group that, other than in secondary schools, the provision would most probably be most successfully developed within the local area clusters of schools.

To this end, there will be an opportunity to discuss the development of study support provision during the summer term Strategic School Partnership.

Presentations

Presentations about the Study Support development project have been given, or will be given to:

Lifelong Learning Overview Scrutiny Committee, now the Children and Young Persons' Overview Scrutiny Committee Local Group Headteachers’ meetings

Study Support Web Links

For further details and information about Study Support please visit www.teachernet.gov.uk

 DfES website Study Support area

  Quality in Study Support website

For further information please contact:

Lynn Barnitt, Study Support Development Group Co-ordinator, Primary (former primary Headteacher)
Tel: (01430) 431371
E-mail: lynnbar@lineone.net

Mike Wynn, Study Support Development Group Co-ordinator, Secondary (A.S.T., Driffield School)
Tel: (01377) 253631
E-mail: mike.wynn@driffieldschool.eril.net