RAISING ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAMME – TUTORING FOR YEAR 11 PUPILS

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For 16 year olds, passing English and maths GCSEs is essential. These qualifications act as a gateway to further education and from there, into higher learning and rewarding careers. Bradford’s schools are benefiting from a range of support programmes that will help to improve teaching for the long term, but these investments will take time. Over the past four years over 40% of year 11s in Bradford failed to achieve that level in both Maths and English. This compares to a national average of 29% (based on YEAR data). Therefore, there is a need to act now, for those pupils preparing to take their GCSEs. To begin to address this issue, the Council is seeking a professional tutoring organisation to support a minimum of 300 year 11 pupils in maths, this academic year. Depending on the impact of this intervention, the Council or its partners may wish to replicate and/or expand a similar offer of tuition in subsequent years, although this would be likely to be subject to a separate procurement exercise. Keywords: GCSE Tutoring, Education, Bradford Schools, Mathematics