National EMA Strategies Update

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National EMA Strategies - Update

• MEAP
• Lead LA MEAP
• Primary EAL Hub

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MEAP

• Batley Business Enterprise College
• Batley Girls
• Birkdale High
• Fartown High
• Moorend Technology College
• Royds Hall
• Westborough High

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2007 Results

• Of the three schools focusing on year 9, 1 school
  achieved 100 level 5 for targeted pupils, 1
  school all but one of targeted pupils achieved
  level 5 and 1 school achieved level 5 with 70
  of the Pakistani cohort
• Of the four schools focusing on year 8, 1 school
  has already achieved level 5 with all but one of
  the target group 1 school has achieved level 5
  with all of the target group and 50 of targeted
  pupils have already surpassed FFT D predictions

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Developments

• Schools
• promoting SAM learning
• using the primary ISP tracker with parents
• working on dissemination and embedding
• strategies and approaches
• filming at Moorend Technology College for
  National Strategy DVD on inclusion
• Collecting quantitative and qualitative evidence
  for final evaluation MEAP ends this year

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MEAP Lead LA

• compilation of register of best practice
• articles for strategy newsletters
• inputs at regional conferences
• support for other LAs in Yorkshire and Humberside
  through
• one to one meetings
• regional event

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Primary EAL Hub

• working closely with Bradford LA to support other
  LAs in Yorkshire Humberside
• two regional events in Spring and Summer 2007
• third regional event to take place this month
• a focus on the dissemination of the EAL Toolkit
• working towards alignment of the Primary EAL
  Programme and the PNS Strategy
• LA EMA and PNS staff working in partnership in
  targeted schools

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The ESCA Plan

• Delivering the principles of the ESCA Plan
• EMA agenda to be understood and delivered by all
  LA and school staff as part of an overarching
  school improvement strategy
• Target for attainment gap for underachieving
  groups to be narrowed by 1 but in programme
  schools to be narrowed by 2