{"id":542,"date":"2016-08-23T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/?p=542"},"modified":"2021-10-27T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:53:28","slug":"outreach-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/outreach-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Outreach success"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/span><\/span> year SMSAS worked closely\u00a0with representatives from\u00a0the Further Maths Support Programme (FMSP) to support six Year 13 students from\u00a0Canterbury Academy. As well as larger classes run on Saturday mornings with the FMSP, several Ambassadors from SMSAS worked with these six\u00a0students each week in the Templeman library, supplementing their A-Levels in Mathematics\u00a0and giving\u00a0them\u00a0a taster of University study. These support sessions were based on the ‘By Our Students, For Your Students’ learning resources\u00a0that were produced by our Ambassadors, some of which are available online <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/outreach\/A-level_resources.html<\/a><\/p>\n

After the release of the A-Level results, our contact teacher John Heffernan confirmed that all-but-one student improved their A-Level grades with respect to their AS-Levels, with half achieving at least two full grades higher than in the previous year. In particular, John noted that<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“The students’ self esteem, confidence\u00a0and excellent results have been significantly impacted by the interventions that you have facilitated.<\/span>“<\/span><\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For the academic year 2016 – 2017 we have been awarded a separate funding pot by the PDO to expand our support\u00a0work and to\u00a0develop Year 12 versions of our learning resources. We hope that by providing support earlier on, we can better improve the aspirations and attainment\u00a0of local A-Level students. The new project will be run by Joe Watkins, Katherine Horan (Postgraduate Ambassador) and several of our\u00a0Undergraduate Ambassadors. Once the learning resources have been completed, the FMSP have offered to maximise our distribution of these\u00a0by\u00a0advertising them at their various local\u00a0CPD events.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>As before, the learning resources that we have produced will form the basis of our A-Level revision classes for local Sixth-Form students. These are likely to take place\u00a0in early 2017 and are attended by several local teachers from various selective and non-selective schools. It would be fantastic if\u00a0academic members of SMSAS staff would like to be involved, so please contact Joe Watkins if you are interested (<\/span><\/span><\/span>J.Watkins@kent.ac.uk)<\/span><\/p>\n

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