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PET-Xi Training, West Oak House, Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry CV4 8LB Tel: +44 (0) 24 7642 0310 Email: [email protected] Web: www.pet-xi.co.uk Schools • KS4 • Article Article: Belief System Sal McKeown Investigates an ‘Explosive Intervention’ that is improving outcomes in schools across the country PET-Xi in action Published in: Teach Secondary Date: March 2015 Written by: Sal McKeown, Educational Journalist and Author T his article highlights the way in which schools are developing a partnership with PET-Xi. Paul McMenamin from 160 year-old Bellerive FCJ Catholic College was looking for solutions to convert progress from satisfactory to good for girls in key stage 4. Over the two-year period A*-C results for maths shot up from 59% to 82%. He states that PET-Xi’s high staffing ratios and immersive environment make PET-Xi “definitely part of the solution”. The piece also investigates how Top Valley Academy has faced challenges since becoming an academy in 2012 - Neville Silcock (Strategy Manager) discusses how they utilise PET-Xi and highlights the success of the provision in terms of progress, attendance, impact and value.
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Article: Belief System Sal McKeown Investigates an ‘Explosive Intervention’ thatis improving outcomes in schools across the country
PET-Xi
in action
Published in: Teach SecondaryDate: March 2015Written by: Sal McKeown, Educational Journalist and Author
This article highlights the way in which schools
are developing a partnership with PET-Xi.
Paul McMenamin from 160 year-old Bellerive FCJ
Catholic College was looking for solutions to convert
progress from satisfactory to good for girls in key
stage 4. Over the two-year period A*-C results for
maths shot up from 59% to 82%. He states that PET-Xi’s
high staffing ratios and immersive environment make
PET-Xi “definitely part of the solution”.
The piece also investigates how Top Valley Academy
has faced challenges since becoming an academy in
2012 - Neville Silcock (Strategy Manager) discusses
how they utilise PET-Xi and highlights the success
of the provision in terms of progress, attendance,
impact and value.
