Minority Ethnic Support - Raising Attainment as a fuction of Education Improvement Partnerships

Summary - This section shows how Minority Ethnic Support might help to raise attainment which is one possible function of an Education Improvement Partnership. Other programmes which may help raise atttainment include but are by no means limited to: Gifted and Talented programmes; Learning Mentors; 14-19; Study Support; ICT and provision for Special Educational Needs.            

Improving services and opportunities for learners should be at the heart of everything an Education Improvement Partnership does. Sustaining improvement depends on making progress across the board: raising attainment, improving standards of behaviour and levels of attendance, and ensuring the safety and well-being of children and young people both in and out of school.  

Raising pupil attainment means improving children's life-chances by opening up new opportunities, emphasising the enjoyment and engagement of all pupils in the learning process, and personalising education to meet the individual needs of all children and young people.  

Education Improvement Partnerships could collaborate on minority ethnic issues and on raising awareness of racial and religious harassment. Joint inset sessions on diversity could be provided by the partnership for teachers from all schools; teachers and their support staff with expertise in EAL or dealing with newly arrived pupils could work across the group; and expertise in collecting and analysing data on attainment amongst minority ethnic pupils could be spread to improve pupil tracking of those pupils across all schools. Education Improvement Partnerships would also offer ways to better engage parents of minority ethnic pupils: partnerships could include Supplementary Schools and provision on family literacy programmes could be shared across the group.