1C: How is success in learner achievement recognised?
The following extracts from ALI and Ofsted inspection reports illustrate effective practice in learner achievement.
Adult Learning Inspectorate | OFSTEDThere were good arrangements to celebrate learner achievements. The education department had an effective monthly recognition scheme for learners who had made significant achievements or demonstrated improvement in their work, behaviour or conduct. Award winners’ names were displayed prominently on notice boards, enabling learners to take a pride in their achievements. There were well-managed, high-profile events to recognise achievers, such as the presentation of awards by the governor. These provided good opportunities to celebrate young people who had achieved qualifications or demonstrated high levels of attainment in singing, sport, IT or other activities. Parents, guardians, siblings and teaching staff were invited and many attended. Learners, guests and prison staff spoke highly of, and greatly appreciated, these events.
Classrooms and workshops were well decorated and had good displays of curriculum materials and examples of learners’ work. Corridors and the central area in the education block also contained displays of learners’ work and other achievements such as lists of those who had passed examinations recently.
The high standard of young people’s work in vocational training continued to be a strength, and there was good work in the cycle repair shop, with appropriate qualifications.
The YMCA provided additional opportunities to gain key skills accreditation and youth achievement awards for those not in education and training. The YMCA had been in Wetherby for five years, with half the funding provided by the establishment and half by the YMCA. The team comprised four paid staff and two volunteers who were usually students on placement. They worked with young people who were not attending education and training, mainly on the wings and in cell, on a one-to-one basis during the day and the evening. The young people were helped to build portfolios of evidence before their award was submitted by the YMCA. Young people were referred by their caseworkers and the psychology department. The YMCA team liaised with education staff to identify other young people in need of support and advertised the project through posters on the wings. The team was currently working with seven unemployed young people, one of whom had recently finished the Duke of Edinburgh Award. In the past, it had also led groups on a project about problem-solving related to lifestyles and there were plans to develop more projects in the future.
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