Key Issues for the Future

Support Materials

Strategy 2009-2010

Notes on Leading and Managing Year 4 RAISE Activities

Key Issues for the Future The Assembly Government has commissioned rigorous external evaluation of the programme from Estyn and the People and Work Unit, the outcomes of which will feed into policy development and educational practice in the future. Interim reports from these agencies have identified, amongst others, the following key themes as areas for development in connection with the RAISE programme:

multi-agency approaches to support the progress of disadvantaged learners;
greater involvement of the wider community in the life and work of schools;
increased efforts to engage parents in the learning of their children;
the adoption of nurture approaches to supplement the impact of the home on pupils’ learning;
broader approaches to language development that are set in the context of a holistic skills package, as a means of improving learning;
making the secondary school curriculum, more relevant and vocational;
strategies for improving learners’ motivation, behaviour, attendance, self esteem;
improved transition processes for disadvantaged learners moving between the stages of education.