About Project 26
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Every year we do our upmost for every pupil, after an eleven-year period in education, to achieve their absolute best in each qualification entered in order to open doors of opportunity to a successful future.
In parallel, we work within a system that enforces us as professionals to respond to ongoing change within the assessment systems to ensure we can help pupils do this.
Success looks different for all pupils. The design of the curriculum is essential. High quality teaching is of paramount importance. The culture and ethos of the school can sometimes be the key enabler for a pupil to do well. The building of confidence in order to tackle assessments positively and successfully is an aspect that should not be undermined.
Every year we approach a cohort’s last academic year in Key Stage 4 with attention to whole cohort level, classes and individuals; securing post-16 destinations that reflect the ambition we hold with them.
Each year we learn lessons from analysis of performance in each subject area and across all subjects in reviewing Attainment 8 and Progress 8.
In July 2024, the Department for Education (DfE) initiated a curriculum and assessment review, led by Professor Becky Francis which has been consulted upon, and the outcomes are to be published in 2025 for implementation.
‘The Curriculum and Assessment Review Group will undertake a review of the existing national curriculum and statutory assessment system, including qualification pathways. The Review will seek to refresh the curriculum to ensure it is cutting edge, fit for purpose and meeting the needs of children and young people to support their future life and work. The Review will ensure that the curriculum appropriately balances ambition, excellence, relevance, flexibility and inclusivity for all our children and young people, and it will ensure meaningful, rigorous and high-value pathways for all at 16 to 19. The Review will contribute to the Government’s missions to break down the barriers to opportunity for every child and young person, at every stage, as well as to the Government’s mission on growth’.
Curriculum and assessment review - aims, terms of reference and working principle
We have an ambition to be above 50 for Attainment 8 for Hampshire. In Hampshire we have schools that have continued to do exceptionally well overall and in individual subjects, as well as every school each year renewing a focus on a subject/subjects that they further wish to improve. In addition, we have some students who are ‘hard to reach’ or other challenges such as in year admissions which require special attention.
To that end, we wish to invite you to join a working group Project 26 with a focus on further improving attainment. You should be able to commit a senior leader with responsibility for raising standards to sessions spaced throughout the year, to work with like-minded colleagues from Hampshire schools and key input from a HIAS inspector to help you in the focus on further improving attainment for pupils in your school.