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- The findings from phase 3 of the project have shown that children and young as four and five years old can understand how they learn. This demonstrates the capability of very young children to learn how to learn: they can talk about their thinking and about their own learning while actively choosing learning techniques to match learning contexts. 

- Only a year into the three-year programme teaching pupils to assess their own writing and already the SAT results in writing have shown a marked improvement. All 60 of the pupils taking part in the project improved their writing point scores in the SATs from an average of 7.9 to 14.9, well above the average increase for pupils in comparison classes.(Wilbruy Primary School, Learning to Learn in Schools project)

· Standards in knowledge and understanding of the world have improved significantly from last year’s results. There was a 36% rise in the number of children achieving in the 6 to 8 scale between 2004 and 2005 when the video cameras were introduced. Fewer children are achieving scales 1 to 3 as well, indicating a rise in standards. There was a similar rise in achievement in the area of personal, social and health education with more pupils reaching the higher scales and less scoring in scales 1 to 3. (Pennoweth Primary School, Learning to Learn in Schools project).

· The SAT results of the boys studying together in an active, ITC based way have risen by 9.2 points from key stage 2 to stage 3 and over all those children in single gender classes have done 61% better than the pupils in the control mixed class which was following the schools usual teaching programme. (Roseland Community School, Learning to Learn in Schools Project)

Formal Education

· In 1997/98 12,300 pupils were excluded from primary, secondary & special schools. 85% were boys. Black Caribbean pupils are 4.5 times as likely to be excluded.

· On ‘difficult to let’ estates one in four children gain no GCSEs against a national average of of one in 20.

· 80% of children of unskilled fathers leave school at 16 Gordon Brown, 1996

· When asked what they wanted from schools 85% of pupils in a survey of 7 to 17 year olds said good teaching, 82 % said to be with friends and 80% said to get a good career. Civil Rights in Schools, Priscilla Alderson and Sean Arnold, Institute of Education Nov 1999

 
 
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