What is the National Tutoring Programme?
The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) provides primary and secondary schools with funding to spend on targeted academic support, delivered by trained and experienced tutors and mentors.
There are 3 routes to providing subsidised tuition:
· Academic Mentors – full-time, in-house staff members employed to provide intensive support to pupils who need it
· Tuition Partners – tutors recruited by external tutoring organisations quality-assured by DfE
· School-led Tutoring – members of a school’s own personnel, either currently employed or specifically engaged for this purpose, including retired, returning or supply teachers, support staff, and others.
What does this look like at Reedswood?
Here at Reedswood we are continuously building on the success of the programme that has been running for the past few years.
We have members of staff in school that undertook the training to become ‘school-led tutors’. These tutors deliver 1:1 or small group sessions before or after school for children from Y1 to Y6 in English or Mathematics. The purpose of these is to enable children to reach their full potential by targeting key aspects of the curriculum.
This academic year we have also joined up with Third Space Learning – our tuition partner, who are providing online sessions focusing on Mathematics for our targeted Year 3, 4 and 5 children. These are overseen by one of our school-led tutors.
The whole NTP programme is monitored and evaluated by school leaders to ensure our children have quality first tutoring which enables them to make at least good progress within and across the taught sessions.
Further information about the National Tutoring Programme can be found by clicking here.
