Secondary education Not Applicable
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention: The SHINE in Secondaries Saturday School programme which runs for four hours per Saturday for 25 Saturdays over the school year. The programme is delivered by the schools and is support
Sponsors
Durham University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Secondary schools will be eligible to participate if they are awarded a grant by the SHINE Trust, through a competitive process, to run the SHINE in Secondaries programme. The criteria required is that schools are expecting to have at least 80 children coming into Year 7 who have not achieved a National Curriculum level 4 (as required by the funder) and to serve areas of disadvantage as measured by a higher than average proportion of children on free school meals. They also must have the ability, capacity and commitment to run the SHINE in Secondaries programme as judged by the SHINE Trust. 2. All Year 7 pupils in each participating school will participate in the study unless parents choose to opt-out of their child?s data being used. 3. Although all Year 7 pupils will participate, assignment to the intervention or control group will be done using a literacy test; those scoring below a first cut-point will be in the intervention group, those scoring above a second cut-point will be in the control group and those scoring between the two cut-points will be placed on a waiting list in a random order should there be available spaces before the intervention begins.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Schools not awarded a grant by the SHINE trust will be excluded. 2. Eligible Year 7 children whose parents do not wish their child?s data to be used will also be excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Achievement in literacy, measured by the GL assessment Progress in English 12 which will be delivered in its paper form in June/July 2014 after the intervention is complete. Standardised scores derived from the assessment will be used. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Achievement in numeracy, measured by the GL assessment Progress in Maths 12 which will be delivered in its paper form in June/July 2014 after the intervention is complete. 2. Social skills, measured by a social skills and attitudes questionnaire completed in June/July 2014 after the intervention is complete. | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed