Best Practice

Case study: The Success Squad

Support staff Middle leadership
A project that trains support staff to take on a mentoring role has helped to boost the performance of borderline students in both English and mathematics. Jennifer Kenwright explains.

The “Year 11 Success Squad” is a support staff mentoring programme that I implemented as part of my Impact Initiative for the Teaching Leaders Fellows programme.

The aim was twofold – to increase pupil achievement in maths and English and also to nurture support staff within school as a previously untapped resource.

When formulating my Impact Initiative, I knew that the target for five A* to C grades including maths and English for 2012 was 58 per cent, and that for 2013 it would be 60 per cent. In order to provide increased life chances for pupils and for them to achieve their academic potential, it was imperative that these targets were met or exceeded.

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