Our Education Strategy
aims to improve educational attainment for all ages of the
population:
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improve performance at 11 years old |
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Secondary School |
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improve performance at 16 years old |
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Post 16 / Adults |
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increase the number of residents qualified to levels
1-2-3 and above |
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Our strategy has been to develop projects,
a number of them short (2 year) pilots, to work towards
improving education at each of these stages. Once
these early pilots have been evaluated, they have been continued
where proven successful; or funding ended where results
have been difficult to prove. Since there are only
two schools (Stranton and Lynnfield Primaries) actually
within the NDC boundaries, NDC pupils attend schools spread
across Hartlepool. This has made our strategy for
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As the only schools within the NDC
boundaries Stranton and Lynnfield Primaries have been a
focus for capital and revenue investment. The two Secondary
schools with the largest proportion of NDC pupils, Dyke
House and Brierton, have also been used to pilot new ways
of working. We also have a project distributing funds
to all schools with NDC pupils, ensuring nobody misses out. |
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Educational Achievement Project
Funding extended to 19 schools in Hartlepool, all with significant numbers of NDC pupils. This funding will be used by each school differently, but is likely to pay for things like extra teachers, classroom assistants, teaching materials – in fact anything that the school can prove is improving the exam results of NDC pupils in the school.
This project provides improved educational achievement by pupils from the NDC area by:
(i) Providing direct funding to Primary and Secondary schools to substantial numbers of NDC pupils to deliver annual programmes of curriculum enhancement, study support and out of school learning activities. (In the case of Brierton and Dyke House secondaries they now use this money to continue their Laptop and Residential Support projects funded as early pilots).
(ii) Covering the costs of the LEA co-ordinating, monitoring and evaluating this activity on an annual basis, and providing central support to schools and governing bodies to develop their programmes to better achieve the aims of the project where necessary.
For further details please contact John Collings on 01429 523733
E-mail: john.collings@hartlepool.gov.uk
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Education Transition Project - Year 6 to 7
Key Stage 2 to 3 and Transition - a project to support pupils in the move from Primary to Secondary school and ensure their educational attainment in this period continues to improve.
For further details please contact Bill Jordon on 01429 266377
E-mail: admin@dykehouse.hartlepool.sch.uk
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Hoop Dreams
This project is different from the other work being undertaken in the NDC area by Hoop Dreams linked to good citizenship and crime prevention. The project provides a programme of activities focussed on education and personal and social development for young people, through basketball. The activities are run by qualified coaching mentors and target young people aged 11-16 years in the NDC area who are attending participating school(s).
For further details please contact Tony Hanson on 01642 447706
E-mail: t_hanson25@yahoo.co.uk
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"A large number of NDC pupils have benefited from involvement in sport, in particular after shool basketball teams and clubs and visits to see the Mohawks play. Both boys and girls have been motivated by the team involvement in the school." (M Frostick)
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Laptop Computers
A pool of laptop computers has been established for use by NDC pupils at Brierton Comprehensive School.
For further details please contact Chris Hayes on 01429 265711
E-mail: chayes@brierton.org.uk
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Lynnfield Community Learning Centre
Building work is now complete on the Lynnfield Community Learning Centre. The Centre is now officially open and provides a purpose-built nursery, community room, and facilities and space for wider community use. The aim is to promote the school as a place for the whole family to participate in learning, not just Primary school pupils.
For further details please contact Anthony Brownbridge on 01429 232946
E-mail: anthonybrownbridge@hotmail.com
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NDC Education and Training Grant
The Education and Training Grant is due to finish in March 2008
Bursary grants of up to £350 per year are available to NDC residents to encourage adults to continue in education or training.
Click Here for a Bursary Grant application form
Click Here for a list of HBC Adult Education Courses running in the Hartlepool NDC area.
For further details please contact Jill Lundrigan on 01429 855560
E-mail: jlundrigan@ndc-hartlepool.org.uk
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Raising Aspirations - Vocational Training Project
This project provides training and support to young NDC residents who are not getting the most out of a GCSE based education and are in danger of dropping out of the education/training system altogether. It aims to raise their aspirations by helping these young people to find other routes to success. The project provides accredited vocational training opportunities that are not currently available, for a group of around fifty young people a year.
For further details please contact Tom Argument on 01429 287366
E-mail: tom.argument@hartlepool.gov.uk
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Residential Support
A residential support project has been established at Dyke House Comprehensive School, helping to motivate youngsters as they enter a crucial stage of their education. This project gives financial assistance to take pupils away on residential experiences, including study support.
For further details please contact John Taylor on 01429 266377
E-mail: jrtaylor@hartlepoolclc.com
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School Sports Coordinator
The project will involve an NDC funding contribution towards the borough-wide School Sports Co-ordinators programme to ensure that resident pupils from the NDC area attending the participating schools will benefit from the activities the wider programme will offer.
For further details please contact Paul Jackson on 01429 284237/287506
E-mail: p.jackson@hartlepool.gov.uk
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Social Inclusion
This operates in Lynnfield and Stranton Primary Schools and employs two Social Inclusion Assistants to work within the schools with pupils and teachers. They aim to reintegrate disengaged pupils back into mainstream education and will work particularly on attendance, punctuality, behavioural issues and the effects of pupils transferring between schools.
This pilot project has resulted in a significant decrease in pupil absence from school [e.g. at the start of the project in Summer 2001, there were 677 unauthorised absences (in half days) from Stranton Primary. By the end of the pilot in Spring 2003 this had dropped to only 16 unauthorised absences.
For further details please contact Joy Lowe on 01429 275122 E-mail: head.lynnfield@school.hartlepool.gov.uk
Neil Nottingham on 01429 275595 E-mail: head.stranton@school.hartlepool.gov.uk
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“ The Social Inclusion project has been of great benefit in terms of building up trust and getting good results. I work alongside parents, teachers and children, giving support and even providing home visits. Really, it’s just a communication thing which has been very successful.” (Sue Wilson - Social Inclusion Assistant) |
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The Centre is now officially open and is a focal point for early years provision, family and individual learning and study support. Specific services and facilities at Stranton include a self-contained pre-school nursery for up to 39 children, access to high quality play opportunities for pre-school children, full day (wraparound) care for nursery children, creche facilities for parents/carers enrolling in centre promoted training activities, after school study support, out of school childcare for 5-11 year olds. The aim is to promote the school as a place for the whole family to participate in learning, not just Primary school pupils.
For further details please contact Sharon Pounder on 01429 231329
E-mail: spounder56@hotmail.com
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Targeted
work in the Community Learning Centres - a project to develop
a programme of support for NDC pupils to improve their educational
attainment e.g. Summer and Easter Schools, Homework Clubs
etc. |
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