An independent evaluation of the Hallé Support and Help in Education (SHINE) on Manchester Saturday School programme

A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of the Hallé SHINE on Manchester Saturday School programme at improving literacy and numeracy for children in upper primary school

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN99779220

Enrollment

2570

Registered

2013-09-10

Start date

2013-06-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2016-10-17

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Conditions

Primary education Not Applicable

Interventions

Intervention: The Hallé SHINE on Manchester Saturday School programme runs for five hours per Saturday for 25 Saturdays over the school year. The programme is delivered by funded host schools in con

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Pilot year of the trial (2012/2013 academic year) ? Year 5 and Year 6 pupils First year of the main trial (2013/2014 academic year) ? Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 pupils Second year of the main trial (2014/2015 academic year) ? Year 4 and Year 5 pupils 1. Schools will be eligible to take part if they are willing to undertake all related research procedures and are either a school awarded funding by the SHINE Trust to run the Hallé SHINE on Manchester programme or are a local partner school of a school awarded funding. 2. Pupils will be eligible to be involved in the trial if they are in participating schools and 2.1. for schools in the pilot study: in Year 5 or Year 6 in the 2012/13 academic year or in Year 4 or Year 5 in the 2013/2014 academic year 2.2. for schools in the main study: in Year 5 or Year 6 in the 2013/14 academic year or in Year 4 or Year 5 in the 2014/2015 academic year. 3. Pupils will be nominated by teachers as eligible for the programme (disadvantaged or underachieving) before pre-testing and randomisation

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Eligible children whose parents do not wish their child?'s data to be used

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Children'?s scores on the Reading component of the centre for evaluation and monitoring (CEM) InCAS assessment at baseline and nine months in both years of the trial.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Children?'s scores on the Spelling component of the CEM InCAS assessment 2. Children'?s scores on the General Maths component of the CEM InCAS assessment 3. Children?'s scores on the Mental Arithmetic component of the CEM InCAS assessment 4. Children?'s scores on the Attitudes component of the CEM InCAS assessment 5. Children'?s scores on the Attitudes to Music and Music self-evaluation questionnaire Measured at baseline and nine months in both years of the trial	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Children?'s scores on the Spelling component of the CEM InCAS assessment 2. Children'?s scores on the General Maths component of the CEM InCAS assessment 3. Children?'s scores on the Mental Arithmetic component of the CEM InCAS assessment 4. Children?'s scores on the Attitudes component of the CEM InCAS assessment 5. Children'?s scores on the Attitudes to Music and Music self-evaluation questionnaire Measured at baseline and nine months in both years of the trial

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Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026