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To improve the reading ages of all children in Years 7 & 8 Accelerated Reader programme, fortnightly reading lesson in English, investment in library (books and resources) plus partial salary for a full-time AR Librarian and part time teacher for Reading Recovery. Good: students made good progress with their reading We are going to continue with this strategy in order to improve literacy for all students. In 2017/18 we will further analyse AR data to focus on progress of key groups and follow up with strategic actions. £1900 package cost. 20% of accelerated reader staff costs - £6000 £9000 for Reading Recovery To prepare students thoroughly for external exams by identifying gaps in subject knowledge and closing these through targeted interventions. Additional sessions were run throughout the year. The most strategic was the use of Wednesday period 6 sessions. Transport was provided to enable all students to attend these compulsory sessions. Sessions were run by subject specialists. Morning interventions and Saturday mornings were also run where students could work in small groups on targeted topics to close gaps. Good: students made good progress from November mocks. This was tracked after each data collection point. For 2017/2018, we will continue to run the Wednesday P5 sessions but review which subjects are the focus for these sessions (in light of 2017 results). Morning sessions will be extended to Science and History as well and students work in subject areas. Lists to initially be reviewed after November mock exams. £5200 Disadvantaged students have a mentor in school, someone who will meet with them and give them strategies to help them to overcome their particular barriers to learning (for instance organisation, getting homework completed) Aspirations Leader worked closely with selected KS4 students. Mixed: some of the KS4 students involved responded well. We recognise the value in mentoring these students. When placing students into tutor groups for 2017-2018, careful consideration was given to tutors for our eligible students with a view to these mentoring students. We recognised last year that TLR + teaching load reduction for post £15000.
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