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Endorsements
"The NCSL is extremely interested in Hurworth's exciting work on Assertive Mentoring. Its success as a high performing school with an unrelenting focus on raising standards of achievement for all, owes much to its Assertive Mentoring systems.” Steve Munby NCSL March 2007
The following are a selection of emails I’ve received in just one year (2009) from some of the schools using Assertive Mentoring to help them improve and raise standards –
“Eamonn…..Our results 37% 5 A*-C inc Eng and Maths this year and 55% overall. Last was 16 and 38%. A version of the Hurworth scheme was used!! Thanks a lot!! I thought you would like to know.”
Paul M, Kingsthorpe College (Northampton)
“Hi Eamonn. Just thought you’d like to know – results at Prestwich -5 A* - C increased by 10% this year to 65% and with English and Maths was also up 8%. I’m sure that your results were excellent. We’ve already started to mentor the next Year 11. I wanted to thank you for all your help and support – the Head sends his regards; he is very impressed with the outcomes. I hope you are well.
Take care….”
Barbara Bryant (Deputy Head of a School in Bury)
“Eamonn, Yorkshire Martyrs (a school I supported to put in Assertive Mentoring) increased from 24% to 37% 5 A-C inc. En/Ma and attributed much of this success to the Assertive mentoring. They were very pleased with how things had gone.”
Janet Gabanski, Principal Link Officer (11-19)Heath Training and Development Centre, Halifax
“Hi Eamonn, Our results this year were great - our best ever! We achieved 61%A*-C inc Eng and Maths - this is up 7% on last year and 16% in 2 years. We achieved 95% A*-C!! We were second best for this figure in the Liverpool authority second only to Bluecoat school which admits the top 120 pupils in the city via examination. Of the 11 pupils who did not achieve 5, 6 were educated elsewhere, 3 achieved 4 passes, 1 achieved 4.5 passes and 1 was a statemented pupil. Thanks for all your support in setting this up at Broughton.”
Debbie Lodge, Broughton Hall School Liverpool
“Hi Eamonn, We have had a brilliant summer. Our work on National Challenge was classed as good with outstanding features by the DCSF. A week later ofsted came for a monitoring visit, changed it to a section 5 and took us out of Special Measures with a judgement of Good in every category! This was then matched by our results in Aug - 53% A*-C (39% last year) and 39% inc E/M (17% last year). Both reaching FFTD targets.”
Christine Hill Deincourt School, Derbyshire
“Our results made a good leap forward. Up14% to 55% 5 A*-C and up 8% to 32% for 5A*- C including English and maths! So we crossed the magic 30% threshold, earning us a visit from Schools Minister Vernon Coaker last Friday. We are all thrilled with the progress and are full steam ahead to do the same this year. We piloted Assertive mentoring with just our National Challenge Cohort last year, but we're rolling it out to all Y11 this year.”
Allison Redshaw
Delegate Feedback from 2011-2012 Minimum 3 Levels Progress Conferences
“Can I take this opportunity to thank you for what was an inspirational day. I have been on too many course where the theory was discussed but with few practical solutions. Your course was the exact reverse with good old fashioned common sense underpinning everything! It was a breath of fresh air.”
Peter Stanway Director of Personalising Learning - Maths and Humanities Cluster Bridgnorth Endowed School Feb ‘12
“Thanks, you made me see things clearly and I now see the way forward.”
Phill Greenwood, Head of Maths/Design faculty. Rawlins Community College Feb ‘12
“I just wanted to thank you so much for yesterday. The feed back from the evaluation sheets is amazing – totally positive.”
Nov ’11 Barbara Bryant Co-ordinator for SLT Training, schools in Bury
“Just a quick note to thank you for the session you delivered on the 21st. The evaluations were stunning.”
Steve Houghton, Director of Quality and Development Schools in the South Lakes Federation. Oct ‘11
“I was getting frustrated and depressed about making the next steps in pupil progress. This has re-energised me.”
8th Feb ’12 Anonymous evaluation comment
“Very inspirational. Thank you.”
L. Carter St Bede’s Peterlee Feb. ‘12
“Refreshing to hear someone championing common sense and keeping the focus on children.”
H. Sweinton, High Christie Technology College Feb ‘12
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