We deliver community-based tutoring programmes to primary school pupils from low-income, migrant and refugee backgrounds living in social housing, providing vital access to educational support to those who need it most. Our work increases attainment in core subjects, while also boosting pupils’ confidence, resilience, and independence in learning, ensuring our beneficiaries successfully enter secondary school literate, numerate, and with a strong foundation of soft skills to support their long-term success.
We do this by employing and training inspiring university students – most of whom also come from low-income households – to deliver after school small group tuition in core subjects using our specially devised curriculum, designed by expert teachers. Alongside offering meaningful, paid work experience, our tutors receive ongoing training, targeted development opportunities and purposeful connection-building designed to support their transition into employment post-graduation.
The Problem
Primary school pupils from low-income families face an uphill battle at school. On average, they’re 9.4 months behind their peers in English and maths, two core subjects. By the time they reach their GCSEs, they’re over 18 months behind. Catching up is often an impossible task, as private tuition is out of reach.
That’s where we come in. We’re proud to say that our efforts have led to average improvements of 179% in maths after just 12 hours of tuition – an amazing achievement by all our budding mathematicians! In the same period, pupils have also risen, on average, two sub-levels in English. While we don’t like to boast, it’s clear we’re doing something right!