National Challenge

The National Challenge programme ran from March 2009 to March 2011 the programme was part of a government initiative with aims to raise aspiration and attainment levels, with a target goal that all secondary schools will have 30% or more of their pupils gaining 5 C to A*s GCSE grades including Maths and English in 2011. Over the two year programme we worked with 29 schools nationwide, engaging with 1098 Yr 10 and Yr 11 students and 340 adults. The adults we worked with were both school staff and local volunteers who facilitated the programme and committed to being coaches to the students on the programme. 94% of students completing the intensive training reported a change in attitude, motivation and aspiration and 69% reported making progress towards self set goals. Although the final GCSE results will not be available until autumn 2012 for all the students we worked with, initial indications show 65% of students have achieved an improvement in their GCSE grades.

 

 

 

 

 

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