Black and Minority Ethnic Achievement in Islington

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Black and Minority Ethnic Achievement in Islington

• Graham Smith
• Assistant Director, Business Development
• May 2008

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Islington context

• 22,000 pupils in 56 schools
• Over 70 of pupils from black and minority
  ethnic backgrounds
• 45 have English as an additional language
• 5-10 in the very early stages of acquiring
  English
• 23 refugees or asylum seekers
• High mobility
• Huge variation between schools

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Pupils in Islington schools
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Pupils in Islington schools, January 2008
1 is approximately 220 pupils
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Language change since 2001
Languages with more than 150 speakers in 2008
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KS2 Boys Maths L4
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GCSE three year rolling average
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What the recent research says

• Use data analysed by ethnicity to check the
  participation and achievement of different ethnic
  groups
• Ensure parental and community engagement
• Access to high quality training for all staff
• Focus on curriculum, teaching assessment in
  responding to Race Relations (Amendment) Act
• Identity is complex
• Need for a focus on the needs of pupils in the
  later stages of acquiring English as an
  additional language
• Inclusive leadership is crucial

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From data to action strategy

• Islington schools core business
• Unrelenting focus
• Share the story
• Clear guidance
• School self-evaluation
• Race Relations (Amendment) Act implications
• Research
• Funding

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From data to action staff

• Specialist accredited training
• Language in Learning Across the Curriculum
• Modelling by advisory staff
• Secondments
• Networks sharing effective practice
• specialist staff subject leader
• Black educators
• senior managers
• Teaching assistant, learning mentor admin
  officer training
• Major conferences
• Supplementary mother tongue schools (voluntary
  sector)

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From data to action pupils

• Target setting conversations
• Database of pupil level targets drives resource
  deployment
• Role model projects
• Learning from high achieving pupils
• Pupils involved in Turkish Caribbean research
  and curriculum development

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From data to action pupils (intervention
projects)

• Y5/6 Black boys with Kokayi
• Somali Y5/6
• Bangladeshi, Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and
  Kurdish KS2 family numeracy
• EAL KS2 L5
• African Caribbean high attainers
• GCSE 5 A-C and 5 A-G
• Turkish double club

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From data to action parents and communities

• Community development work
• Turkish, Kurdish, Somali, Portuguese, Spanish,
  Albanian, Lingala Bengali speakers
• meetings/training for specific parents in
  particular schools
• Director and assistant directors meet community
  leaders
• Working with community organisations (e.g.,
  Muslim Welfare House and Turkish Education Group)
• From community specific parents groups to
  community cohesion
• Mother tongue and supplementary schools

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From data to action parents and communities

• Focus and steering groups
• Parent and carer conferences
• Current target groups
• African and Caribbean
• Turkish Kurdish
• Bangladeshi
• Somali
• Congolese

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Funding

• Core school and school improvement funding
• EMAG
• London Challenge EiC/EMAG
• London Development Agency
• London G T
• Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
• Childrens Fund
• New Deal for Communities
• Charitable foundations
• Partnerships
• Consultancy training

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Funding
2008-09 budget is 1.25 million