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Friars Academy
Summer School
Celebration Report 2014
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The Summer Schools Programme is funded by Sthe
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Department for Education to support disadvantaged pupils
in making a successful transition to secondary school.
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Ofsted research has demonstrated that this is a time when
many children show a significant dip in confidence and
academic performance.
Funding is used to deliver a one or two week school based
programme to develop the key Personal, Social, Cognitive
and Creative skills of pupils to ensure they begin secondary
school as happy, confident learners who believe they can
achieve. This has a significant impact on attendance,
behaviour and achievement.
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My Summer School
experience was...
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fun, helpful and challenging.
Year 7 Pupil
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Create Development
Programme
School Performance Data
Create Development’s Summer Schools Programme is delivered in partnership with school staff and has six
key components:
Term 1
% Attendance
Average Behaviour
points per pupil
96.10
Not available
% Attendance
Average Behaviour
points per pupil
95.40
Not available
Summer
School pupils
Average
Achievement
points per pupil
596.27
l Personal, Social, Cognitive and Creative skills focus
l Profiling, tracking and celebrating progress
l Literacy skills development
Overall
Year group
l Engagement of parents and carers
l Leadership training of student mentors
15
l Elite athlete visit
Year 7 Pupils attended
over 2 weeks
7
Average
Achievement
points per pupil
560.75
Volunteer Student Mentors
attended over 2 weeks
Summary of Impact Learning Skills and Confidence
Teachers assessed pupils’ Personal, Social, Cognitive and Creative skills at the start and end of Summer School using
Create Development learning journeys and success criteria. The pupils assessed and recorded their own Confidence to
Begin Year 7. The Create Development Wheel was used to track, monitor and evidence progress.
The green highlighted segments in the images show the highest skill stage demonstrated consistently at the start and
end of Summer School with the ‘information box’ providing an explanation of that skill.
START of Summer School
END of Summer School
Ability as assessed by teachers from Friars Academy.
With support, I can find different answers
to the same question or challenge.
Creative
Ability as assessed by teachers from Friars Academy.
I can say something that I have
done well.
I have developed some simple
strategies that I use to help me
solve problems or answer questions.
Creative
Cognitive
Cognitive
Personal
Personal
I am willing to have a go at new
tasks with support.
No stages completed by pupils.
Confidence
Social
3
I can recognise what I already know and I am
beginning to use the targets set by my teachers to
improve my learning skills.
I enjoy stretching myself and see
new challenges as opportunities
to learn and develop.
I’m looking forward to stretching
myself.
Confidence
Social
I can work in a pair with support
and clear direction.
I can work as part of a team
and complete my given part of
the task.
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Dame Kelly Holmes
Legacy Trust Athlete Visit
Volunteer
Student Mentors
Anna Turney spent a day at Summer School and inspired everyone with her life story.
The pupils learned how, through hard work, determination and perseverance, she came
to represent Team GB at Paralympic Skiing. She challenged the pupils to learn the basics
of her sport and, of course, to respond positively to failure and to persevere.
Our Volunteer Student Mentors, who undergo a stringent recruitment and two day
training process, have a number of key roles. They lead many of the activities and
provide additional support to pupils. Daily duties also include writing a blog, taking
photographs and filming the activities.
A very big thank you to Anna for a brilliant day!
The mentors, in turn, follow their own Personal and Social development programme,
using Create Development tools and resources to monitor, assess and review progress.
Anna
Turney
Team GB
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I learned...
to always try your best
and never give up even
when school is tough.
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Image © MJ Truelove http://pikephotography.com/
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Year 7 Pupil
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I learned...
to stretch myself by making
activities more challenging,
like closing my eyes.
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Year 7 Pupil
Literacy Skills
Development
Many of the activities at Create Development Summer Schools support the National
Curriculum for English at KS2 and KS3. Pupils are given the opportunity to develop
their reading, writing and communication/language skills in a way that will help them
to access the KS3 curriculum.
Each day begins with a review of the previous day’s learning through group discussions,
drawing explanatory images/diagrams and writing about and repeating practical
experiences to recall the important aspects of learning.
All pupils keep a personal learning journal, allowing them to record their progress and
provide examples to evidence how they are meeting targets. In addition, they have their
own Create Development Wheel enabling them to upload photographic, video
and written evidence of their learning.
The end of week Celebration Assembly provides an opportunity for all pupils to present
and perform to an audience. This could take the form of:
l Writing and reading from a script
l Drawing and explaining a cartoon script
l Writing and reciting a poem or song
l Producing a drama script or performance
I enjoyed...
being challenged.
Year 7 Pupil
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I am more confident
about...
starting at my new school and
working with people I don’t know.
Year 7 Pupil
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Lead Teacher’s Report
The Friars Academy Summer School was a huge success for all the Year 7 pupils and
mentors involved, with a dramatic increase in the confidence and self-esteem of all
pupils over the two weeks.
By the end of week one pupils were socialising, working and mixing with lots of different
pupils within the group, challenging themselves and helping and supporting each other
which went from strength to strength in the second week. The connection between the
Year 7 pupils and the mentors on the first day of term was fantastic to see, with many
of them socialising on the playground before school started and a number of mentors
supporting the Year 7s through the school gates from their taxis.
Pupil
Focus
“Summer School definitely helped my son. He came home every day so happy and full of excitement about
what he had done throughout the day. He couldn’t wait to go back the next day and, because of this, he is
very happy with his new school.”
“Summer School helped my son to move on from primary school without worry or stress.”
It was definitely a benefit that the pupils were already more familiar with Friars Academy and felt
comfortable to approach individual members of staff who had been in regular attendance at the Summer
School. The relationships pupils built with the Summer School staff and mentors were invaluable for all
involved and unquestionably had a positive impact on their transition from primary to secondary school.
We have had many positive comments from the parents of pupils who attended
Summer School, for example:
“
Being a...
mentor at Summer School has
helped me be more confident.
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Student Mentor
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Post Summer School
Developments
Continuing to close
the attainment gap...
Friars Academy has planned a Summer School reunion for Year 7 pupils, their mentors
and also Create Development/Northamptonshire Sports Tutors who delivered the
programme. The aim is to celebrate their progress in meeting the challenges of transition
and also to reinforce learning from Summer School and set new learning targets to work
towards in the term ahead. Watch this space!
This celebration report of Summer Schools does not signify an end but rather
a step on a journey that for our Year 7 pupils began several years ago and will
continue for many more.
The opportunities, experiences and progress made during Summer Schools can
create a spark that ignites the curiosity, creativity and resilience pupils need to
flourish. However, we also know that the barriers to learning have been lowered,
not removed, and that key learning habits have been improved or developed but
are not yet habitual.
In order to ensure pupils continue to make rapid sustained progress I would ask you
to reflect on the following questions:
l How do you plan to ensure your Year 7 pupils continue to use and celebrate the skills and learning habits developed at Summer School?
l How can your staff reinforce and build upon the key messages, language and skills developed at Summer School?
As you reflect, I would like to stress that our involvement does not end here. We will
continue to provide guidance throughout the year for staff and students and build
towards welcoming the next Year 7 cohort. Please keep sharing your success stories
and anecdotes with us as pupils progress in Key Stage 3.
It has been a pleasure to work with you on this exciting project to narrow the
attainment gap and we look forward to continuing our partnership well into
the future.
Phil Wylie
National Lead: Closing the Gap
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Now I feel...
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Create Development
I am going to be very happy at
this school.
Year 7 Pupil
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