St Werburgh’s Primary School Project, Bristol

St Werburgh’s Primary School Project

A research partnership between the school and the Centre for Education Policy in Practice, School of Education, Bath Spa University

The Centre for Education Policy in Practice – key

principles• Challenge inequality, including

economic inequality• Research to support front line

practice• Develop effective voice for children,

young people, families and learners• Support innovation and change

The Research Question

What is the impact of turbulence on pupil attainment, and how effective are school interventions in meeting the needs of individual children and their communities?

Proposed research programme

Phase 1: review data from RAISEonline, EYFS Profile, KS1 and KS2 datapacks, and correlate with school’s own progress data

Phase 2: feedback to school

Phase 3: interviews with children, parents and local community members

Phase 4: Contribute findings to School Improvement Plan

Findings to date - strengths

• achieving success in a challenging context,

• improving maths whilst building on strengths in English,

• providing well for ‘invisible’ children, ie those in the middle who get overlooked

• counteracting the negative impact of high mobility

Areas for further investigation • Year-on-year progress for mobile

compared to non-mobile children• Induction procedures• Assessment arrangements -

provision for new arrivals• Processes to capture data for new

arrivals in time for it to be useful• How do children and families feel

about their induction?

More areas

• How does the school prevent regression for children changing schools?

• How does the school capture and accurately assess children’s starting points whenever they start in school so that the school can build on children’s prior learning?

Where next?

• Work with other local schools and early years settings

• Comparison with other BME/ community related projects

• Multi –agency/ parenting projects• Comparisons with other forms of

school mobility eg service families