RAISE continued
RAISE Year 4
The key themes that are the focus for RAISE initiatives in Year 4 (2009-2010) are:
- multi-agency approaches to support the progress of disadvantaged learners;
- greater involvement of the wider community in the life and work of schools;
- increased efforts to engage parents in the learning of their children;
- the adoption of nurture approaches to supplement the impact of the home on pupils’ learning;
- broader approaches to language development that are set in the context of a holistic skills package, as a means of improving learning;
- making the secondary school curriculum, more relevant and vocational;
- strategies for improving learners’ motivation, behaviour, attendance, self esteem;
- improved transition processes for disadvantaged learners moving between the stages of education.
Consortium working approach
The RAISE year 4 programme is being delivered via consortium working. Each of the four Local Authority regional consortia has worked with its schools to develop its own strategy, relating the national strategy to local needs and priorities, Local Authorities and schools across swamwac, and the RAISE Regional Steering Group, have worked closely together to develop projects and strategies which relate to the local needs and priorities that exist within each swamwac Local Authority area, and has agreed with schools the collaborative activities that will constitute the
Case Studies - 2009-2010 (year 4 ) RAISE Programme.
RAISE projects within the swamwac region 2009-2010