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