National Tutoring Programme East Midlands South Yorkshire and

National Tutoring Programme East Midlands, South Yorkshire and Humber Teaching Alliance February 2021 General NTP queries: jed. cinnamon@nationaltutoring. org. uk Professional Tutoring Partnership: enquiries@tutorpartnership. com TES Supply: ntpenquiries@visionforeducation. co. uk

Tutoring evidence: ~15 hrs small group tutoring can lead to +3 months progress Meta-analyses Comparison of tutoring against other high impact interventions Nickow, Oreopoulos & Quan, 2020 (96 studies screened) Jun, Ramirez, Cumming, 2010 (152 studies screened, 12 analysed) “Tutoring is one of the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools in use today” “Tutoring is among the most 3 powerful forms of months intervention, particularly for increasing the reading achievement of students at Additional progress risk for academic failure” 5 months Additional progress Trials in England Trial Tutor Trust trial Graduate Coaching Programme 2 Country & date UK, 2016 -18 UK, 2012 -14 Target years Year 6 Year 7 Size 105 schools 1, 201 pupils 4 schools 373 pupils Description Cost per pupil Outcomes Targeted weekly maths tuition; 1: 3 groups over 12 weeks £ 112 months 3 Additional progress Aim to improve reading and 5 writing skills; £ 1, 400 months combination of 1: 1 and small group Additional progress tutoring Note: 1) Maths gains measured on standardised Texas math exams – TAKS in 2011 and STARR in 2012 and 13 Source: Mc. Gill university, Annenberg Brown University, EEF analysis, lit search “There is no intervention known that has an impact larger than tutoring. There are programs that can routinely obtain ~5 additional months of learning. ” R. Slavin, Prof. of Education, John Hopkins Univ.

In England, there are large disparities in access to tutoring and education between richest and poorest households; COVID has exacerbated the disparity Tutoring is highly skewed to wealthy households vs. low affluence homes (34% vs. 20%) In lockdown, richest 20% pupils received ~4 hrs of private tuition a week more than poorest 20% Poorest 20% Source: NTP market map analysis; Sutton Trust Private Tuition Polling 2019; Sutton Trust: Covid-19 impacts: school shutdown; EEF, 2020; IFS, 2020 3 Middle 20% Richest 20%

Purpose The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) aims to support schools in providing a sustained response to the coronavirus pandemic and to provide a longer-term contribution to closing the attainment gap. The programme will make high-quality tutoring available to schools to help disadvantaged pupils whose education has been affected by school closures.

Tuition Partners - offer for schools • Access subsidised high-quality tuition from an approved list of providers who have passed a set of quality, safeguarding and evaluation standards. • The focus of the NTP is on supporting disadvantaged pupils, including those eligible for Pupil Premium funding. However, schools are best placed to decide which of their pupils will benefit most from additional support. • Schools can apply for the number of places they would like from their preferred Tuition Partner. • The model initially focused on delivering in schools only, but in light of recent government changes the majority of Tuition Partners have been approved to deliver online at-home tutoring.

Who are the approved NTP tuition providers? A range of 33 national and regional tuition providers, universities, charities and alternative provision settings, together providing comprehensive coverage across England through online and/or in-person tuition delivered 1: 1, 1: 2 or 1: 3.

Searching for Tuition Partners Schools can search either by school name or location for an approved Tuition Partner via the NTP website

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Progress to date: By Christmas, 90, 000 pupils across England had been enrolled in the National Tutoring Programme The Duchess’s Community High School, Alwnick Thorntree Academy, Middlesbrough I carried out research on My Tutor and looked at one or two of the others on the NTP website. From the start, conversations with My Tutor were positive and answered all the questions and queries I had. The fact that they were using university students as well has really helped the students engage with someone who is not that much older than them. The students are getting to know the tutors and the tutors are testing their knowledge and skills, and everything is set up to work in sync with teachers and the lessons in the classroom as well. My Tutor completes a report after each session so that there is a strong connection from the tutors to what’s taking place in the classroom, which is really good. We have allocated some of our catch-up funding to the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) and work with Third Space Learning. They provide a clear assessment at the start and you can gauge the impact of the work that the children have. We’ve worked with them before and have seen maths results improve by 30 per cent over the last three years at key stage two. We’ve looked at marginal pupils within a group who need that extra support. These pupils have tuition sessions weekly, and we use the impact reports from sessions to inform teaching within the classroom.

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