Whole School Approach: Achievement for All

Professor Sonia Blandford | View as single page | Feedback/Impact

Unseen children

‘..collaborative initiatives such as ‘Achievement for All’ have been successful in raising the ambitions and achievement of pupils identified with special educational needs and/or disabilities, a group of pupils who are also often from economically disadvantaged backgrounds’. (Ofsted, 2013: p. 60)

The Ofsted* report- Unseen children: access and achievement 20 years on (Ofsted, 2013) highlighted the number of pupils who coasted ‘unseen’ through schools across England and left with barely basic levels of literacy and numeracy. This does not happen in schools which work in partnership with Achievement for All. The report underlined ‘...collaborative initiatives such as ‘Achievement for All’ which has been successful in raising the ambitions and achievement of pupils identified with special educational needs and/or disabilities, a group of pupils who are also often from economically disadvantaged backgrounds’. (Ofsted, 2013: p. 60)

*Ofsted- (Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills), they take responsibility for the inspection of all schools in England and regulate other services that care for children and young people.