Tutor Trust Impact Report 2023/2024 - Report - Page 25
Our future
What’s next for
our programmes?
We constantly review and re昀椀ne our programmes and approach
to ensure we continue to meet the needs and demands of the
young people we serve in our schools and colleges.
Our future
Introducing our
phonics programme
This year we ran several pilots in
phonics tuition across primary and
secondary schools. This included
phonics tuition for our youngest learners
in Key Stage 1 giving them the additional
support needed to succeed in the
statutory Phonics Screening Check.
Following extremely positive feedback
and results from that pilot, we are
pleased to make phonics tuition a
part of our core o昀昀er in Key Stage
1, 2 and 3 in 2024/25.
Piloting our
post-16 programme
We’re partnering with the Education
Endowment Foundation (EEF) for
the coming year to run a pilot project
designed to support post-16 learners
to achieve grade 4 or above in GCSE
English and maths resit examinations.
Resitting an exam can be challenging
and can often result in lower levels
of motivation. In our post-16 tutoring
sessions, we’ll be o昀昀ering 1:1 support
that aims to develop a supportive and
motivational relationship. Tutors will
adopt a coaching approach to support
learners to identify barriers to progress,
and to help them to develop the skills and
strategies they need to feel empowered
in their tutoring sessions and beyond.
We’ll be working with up to 250 learners
in 20 colleges and sixth forms across the
North over the course of the 2024/25
academic year. This pilot project will be
evaluated by the National Foundation
for Educational Research (NFER).
Keeping costs low
To ensure our programmes remain
accessible to schools, we will be reducing
our hourly charge to them. Our cost per
hour will be decreasing by 30%, from £43
to £30 per hour. This represents a 44%
decrease in costs to schools since the
NTP started.
Adjusting group sizes
We also made the decision to o昀昀er
tuition at increased group sizes – from
1:3 to 1:4. While smaller group ratios
are typically our preference for providing
quality individualised attention, our
research has shown that making the
shift to larger group sizes of 1:4 had
no detrimental impact on maintaining
pupils’ attendance, attainment or
enjoyment of sessions.
Since September 2024, 1:4 group sizes
became part of our core o昀昀er but we will
continuously review the data to ensure
we continue to deliver high-quality and
impactful tutoring. This approach will
help us to keep costs low and make tuition
more available for our partner schools.
This new pilot project will test the
feasibility of our programme and our
highly trained tutors will act as mentors
and positive role models, providing
academic support to learners, with
a view to preparing them for resit exams
in November 2024 and summer 2025.
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