Bemrose Community School Derby

A Happy, Safe, and Successful CommunityA Happy, Safe, and Successful Community

Bemrose Community School

Inner City 11-18851 NOR34% FSM61% Ethnicity (other than white)53% EAL (PLASC 2007)

2007-2008 Main Ethnic Groups

White British – 28%

Any other white background – 11%

Pakistani – 34%

Indian – 4%

Any other Asian background – 4%

African – 2%

Any other Ethnic Background – 7%

Trends

Year 7 intake 2005-2007

British White Any other white background Pakistani

Languages

Tagalog Swedish Somali Punjabi Swaheli German Begali

Spanish Thai Albanian Bosnian Cantonese Chinese Slovakian

English Dutch Czech Estonian Danish Lithuanian Yoruba

Patios Norwegian Guajarati Turkish Portuguese Persian Vietnamese

Igbo Manipuri Lingala Mongolian Russian Shona Romanian

Azerbaijani Arabic Urdu Welsh Hungarian Finnish French Farsi

Hausa Zulu Latvian Kurdish Ndebele

48 in total

Challenges

Highly mobile school population – in the top 5% of the country

Engaging students and communitiesTrends – changing ethnicitiesSustaining the value of diversity and

inclusion within the school

What we do to promote cohesion

Strong school ethosCurriculum Links with communities

JET Project

Jobs, Education, Training Pakistani community linksWorking with an established organisationPlanning sessionsCareful section of students/staff - girlsSupported by staff from Bemrose

What happened?

Identified a group of girls Supported personalised study Regular communication between JET

and homeTeam building Aim Higher involvedRole model

Student Predicted grade

En

Predicted grade

Ma

Predicted grade

Sc

Final

grade

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Final

grade

Ma

Final

grade

Sc

Overall difference

A*-C FFT Type B

Chance of 5+

1 D E E C D C 4 5 8%

2 C D D C B B 4 7 30%

3 C D D C C C 2 6 35%

4 D F E B D E 4 4 50%

5 D E D C C C 4 7 52%

6 B B C B B B 1 6 88%

Selected GCSE results - 2006

Summary

17 Pakistani females took part15 improved by at least one grade8 improved by one or two grades7 improved by three or four gradesThe project made a significant difference

for those aiming for 5+ A*-CMany of the students are now in Sixth

Form

What next?

Using the model to develop links with Amari-Chi.

New group being selected for JETPotential partnerships

Resources

The Heads and my timeSome staff time to support activities –

some paid and some voluntary