Education ?primary and secondary schools Not Applicable Education ?primary and secondary schools
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention: Discover four-week literacy summer school: delivered and supported by the Discover Children?s Story Centre during the summer holidays of 2013. The intervention will include a variety of
Sponsors
University of York (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Secondary schools will be eligible to participate if they are willing to liaise with feeder primary schools to identify eligible pupils that will attend in Year 7 and if they are willing to undertake all related research procedures. 2. Primary schools will be eligible if they are willing to undertake all related research procedures and are identified as feeder schools to the participating secondary schools. 3. Eligible pupils will include: 3.1. Those in participating schools 3.2. Year 6 pupils in the 2012/13 school academic year 3.3. Those predicted to achieve between Level 3c and Level 4c in KS2 English, based on the teacher assessments
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Pupils, primary and secondary schools NOT meeting the inclusion criteria will be excluded
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Children?s combined scores on the two writing tasks of the GL Assessment ?Progress in English? 11 (Long Form) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Children?s scores on the reading, spelling and grammar components of the GL Assessment ?Progress in English? 11 (Long Form) | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed