The Impact of Every Child a Reader (ECAR)

The Impact of Every Child a Reader (ECAR)

in Leicester City 2010-11

There were 40 ECAR schoolsin the city in 2010-11

Schools who started ECaR in 2006/2007 / Schools who started ECaR in 2007/08 / Schools who started ECaR in 2008/09 / Schools who started ECaR
in September 09 / Schools who started ECaR in September 2010
Knighton Fields
Mowmacre Hill
Sparkenhoe
Thurnby Lodge
Woodstock
Barley Croft
Catherine Infants
Forest Lodge
Highfields / Belgrave St Peters
EyresMonsell
Hazel Primary
Parks
Rolleston
Sacred Heart
Willowbrook / Granby
Shenton
King Richard III
Beaumont Lodge
Herrick
Hope Hamilton
Kestrels’ Field
St Barnabas
Braunstone Community / Alderman Richard Hallam (2 teachers)
Holy Cross
Fosse
InglehurstInf
Scraptoft Valley
Marriott
Uplands Infant
St Joseph’s (2 teachers) / Braunstone Frith Infant
Caldecote
Heatherbrook
Imperial Avenue Infant
Medway
St Mary’s Fields
St Thomas More

Last year ECAR schools worked with 320,Y1/2 pupils who received Reading Recovery and 413 BRWP pupils in Y1-6.

At end of KS1 assessments, 168/209 Y2 Reading Recovery pupils attained 2c plus in reading. This was 80% of our Y2 pupils.

In writing 150/209 attained 2c plus which was 72%.

Better Reading and Writing Partners

BRWP Teaching Assistants taught 413 pupils in 40 schools. Average progress was 3.7 points gain in reading and 2.9 points in writing over 15 weeks. Out of these pupils, 249 were Y2 pupils who did end of KS1 assessments and 193/249 attained 2c plus.On average, pupilsreceived 50, twenty minute lessons at an approximate cost of 250.00 per pupil. Some schools used Whatever it Takes funding to support their pupils.

Reading Recovery pupils reach Year 6!

This year for the first time in our city, pupils who received Reading Recovery reached Y6 and took end of KS2 assessments. Before their intervention in Y1/2, they had been predicted a low level 1 at end of KS1.

End of KS2 Assessments Reading and Writing

17 pupils / reading / writing
Level 5 / 4 / 0
Level 4 / 6 / 9
Level 3 / 5 / 5
Below Level 3 / 2 / 3

6 pupils left the LA and we await data from 3 pupils

Raising attainment across the school

As well as providing interventions for pupils, ECAR offers a range of high impact measures to raise attainment across the school.A few are listed below

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