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Assertive Mentoring
Information Evening
for Parents
Wednesday 6th
February
This evening’s aims
• to explain what
Assertive Mentoring is
• to explain how it will
work in St Elizabeth’s
• to explain how it will
benefit you and your child
What is Assertive Mentoring?
A personal approach used in
schools to improve standards.
It brings together a number of
different strategies and joins
them together under one
system.
Around 1,000 schools in
England have adopted the
Assertive Mentoring approach.
Why Assertive Mentoring?
Evidence shows it can:
• Raise standards for all
• Increase a child’s
motivation to improve.
• Better inform and
involve parents
What does it involve?
Mentoring: 1-to-1 meetings with teacher.
Assessment: Where are the children now?
Tracking: Are they where they should be?
Target Setting: Where are they heading and what do they
have to do to get there?
Support: What help is needed?
Maths: Big Maths sessions
Your Child
Mentoring
Target Setting
Big Maths
Tracking
Support
Assessment
Assessment and
Long-Term Target Setting
Year Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Pupil 1 3C 3B 4C 4A 5B
Pupil 2 2B 2A 3B 4C 4A
Pupil 3 1A 2C 2A 3B 4C
Progress +1 +2 +2 +2
Learners learn best when they:
Understand what they
are trying to learn
Are given feedback
about their work
Are shown how
to make it better
Are fully involved
in the process
The Mentoring Meetings
Happen at the start of every half-term.
Are 1-to-1 and take place outside of the classroom.
Last between 10 and 20 minutes.
Children bring along their mentoring file.
Targets are set for reading, writing and maths.
Progress in these subjects is discussed.
Attitude to school is also discussed.
Progress +1 +2 +2 +2
Your Child
Mentoring
Target Setting
BigMaths
Tracking
Support
Assessment
Big Maths Big Maths sessions take place once a week for children in
Years 2 to 6.
Children are grouped by their Level, rather than by their
age. There are 12 groups spread around the school.
Each group is taken by either a teacher or teaching
assistant and usually consists of 5 to 15 pupils.
Sessions begin with children doing a 20-minute test.
The remainder of the session is spent re-explaining and
practising the questions that children couldn’t do.
They are given a mark for the test and labelled green,
yellow or red. Two or three ‘greens’ and they are moved to
the next level.
How will Assertive Mentoring help you?
Increase the information
you have about your child’s
progress.
Allow for a three-way
conversation at parents’
evenings between yourself,
your child and their teacher.
Help your child to progress.
How can you help?
Ask your child their targets.
Help them to achieve them.
Ask your child their Big
Maths score each week.
This evening’s aims
• to explain what
Assertive Mentoring is
• to explain how it will
work in St Elizabeth’s
• to explain how it will
benefit you and your child
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