“Currently, just 5% of disadvantaged pupils achieve higher standards in their year 6 SATs (DfE, 2019) compared to 13% of their non-disadvantaged peers. In the wake of coronavirus closures, this inequality gap is expected to widen, leaving those most disadvantaged pupils falling off their high attainment trajectories before they reach secondary school. Therefore, we are delighted that the Fair Education Alliance will be supporting CoachBright to bring their academic coaching approach to younger pupils through the development of a key stage 2 tutoring programme. This new programme will help primary students improve their grades, confidence and independence at the critical transition from primary to secondary school, when many of the most disadvantaged young people typically fall most behind.”
Gina Cicerone and Sam Butters, Co-CEO’s Fair Education Alliance
About Coachbright:
CoachBright are a social enterprise working towards making education fairer in the UK. They run in-school tutoring programmes for disadvantaged previous high attainers, helping them become reflective and resilient learners so that they can lead the lives they want. Through university student and peer tutoring, they are helping pupils to improve their grades, confidence and independence whilst exploring their options for the future.
The next step for CoachBright is to bring their academic coaching approach to younger pupils through the development of a key stage 2 tutoring programme. Over the coming months, they will be recruiting a new hire to head-up the development of their primary work.
CoachBright will be utilising the incubator sessions and the Fair Education Alliance’s network of schools and experts to create a programme that compliments the classroom, piloting in the spring term of 2021. In 12 months’ time, they aim to be rolling out their programme to primary schools across England.