SCHOOLS & COLLEGES
The 99 percent campaign is committed to celebrating what young people achieve in our schools, pupil referral units and colleges.
London is the highest performing region in England at GCSE level, the latest secondary school leaguetables show. The data shows 54% of pupils achieved the benchmark of five GCSEs at A* to C, includingEnglish and maths, in 2009. This is a striking turn-around in just over a decade - in 1997, just 29.9% ofLondon's pupils reached this level. Indeed, London's state school pupils have outperformed the national average in GCSE performance every year since 2005.
In 2009, they were well ahead of the national average (50.7%) of pupils getting five A* to Cs, including maths and English.
And of the 247 secondary schools in England which are failing to get over 30% of pupils reaching the GCSE benchmark, just 13 are in London.
Of the 10 most improved local authorities for GCSE performance from 1998 to 2009, nine wereLondon boroughs.
Source BBC website January 2010
How can schools, pupil referral units and colleges use the 99 percent site?
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Start of term September 2011 : Safer Learners Partnership
Materials have gone to all schools and colleges from the Safer Learners Partnership (GLA, Police, Youth Justice Board, TfL) with ideas for action under the Safer Learners themes.
They have organised this under the following headings:
- Postive images of young people
- Safer travel
- Understanding locality risk
- School/college priority messages
- Routine and emergency information sharing
- Support and challenge for high-risk families
- Reassurance by visible policing
- Critical incident planning
This also includes advice for how young people can be proactive in preventing harm to themselves or others – and pointing to sources of help.
So what can schools and colleges do now ?
a) Sign up to the 99% Pledge;
b) Draw young people’s attention to the 99% poster campaign now being seen on tube and bus poster boards – and promote volunteering opportunities;
c) For individual families affected by the riots school/college pupil /student support systems will need to seek support from Children’s Services, Youth Offending Teams to make sure that the maximum support is available;
d) Schools and colleges are overwhelmingly seen by young people as the right place to discuss controversial issues. The riots give plenty of issues to discuss for example:
- Making individual choices – living with consequences.
- Belonging to groups – and the risks.
- Those who stood out – e.g. ‘The Hackney Heroine’ or the father of the young men killed in Birmingham
- Being heard – who listens?
- Wants and needs – the difference.
- How do people achieve change without causing harm?
- How do people raise complaints without causing harm?
- What makes us have pride in our community?
- If you are worried for someone – who can help?
- How do we put wrongs right? How do we repair harm?
- Police and community
The Citizenship Foundation is an independent education and participation charity that aims to encourage and enable individuals to engage in democratic society. In light of the recent riots, The Citizen Foundation is offering support to teachers to address and unpack such fast moving and global changes. Please see their website for more details: http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk
