Dealing with pupils who are struggling in school consumes a disproportionate amount of time that could (and can) be used more effectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What if there is a way to identify who these pupils are before they communicate their feelings through their disengagement and\/or disruptive behaviour?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, what if you could also identify their unmet needs with tailored interventions to prevent more challenging situations from arising? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When discussing these very challenges with a school partner we devised an interesting experiment. Could we use the Evolve Development Tracker (EDT) to accurately identify which pupils at the school are in greatest need of pastoral support? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Method 1 – the traditional way<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior leaders at the school share a list of their 30 pupils from KS2 who are most at-risk based on observations and performance data from the first six weeks of the school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Method 2 – the Wellbeing Compass way<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All KS2 pupils complete the short Wellbeing Compass survey within the EDT and this data is used to identify the 30 pupils who are deemed to be most at-risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 23 of the 30 pupils identified using the Wellbeing Compass (Method 2) are also pupils identified the traditional way using school staff observations and intelligence (Method 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Wellbeing Compass survey is a reliable predictive tool with 77% accuracy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, three of the pupils on the Wellbeing Compass list were also a concern for the school but didn’t quite make it into their top 30. This meant that only four of the pupils identified using wellbeing data were a surprise to the school and not deemed to be in need of additional pastoral support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Advantages of the Wellbeing Compass way<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We have always encouraged school clients to use the Wellbeing Compass with all pupils in a year group or key stage before referring mentees and these results reinforce this strategy. However, what first started as a routine conversation with a client has led to Evolve now offering this identification tool to schools who are not already engaged using our mentoring programmes. What if there is a way to identify who these pupils are before they communicate their feelings through their disengagement and\/or disruptive behaviour? Read more to find out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evolvesi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
You can watch the short 4 minute video demonstration here – How to identify your most vulnerable pupils.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"