SHINE ON SATURDAY @ AXIS

The grant recipient

The Axis Educational Trust has over 10 years' experience running programmes in north London supporting young people who are underachieving. It provides mentoring, tutoring and supplementary support for children of all ages, has a committed team of voluntary teachers and administrators and strong links with the community.

The programme

SHINE @ Axis is for 80 children in years 3, 4 and 5 and 6 (7-11 years old) from primary schools across the Tottenham area of Haringey. Hosted at Wisdom School, the project's focus is to work with children who are two national curriculum sub levels below the expected level for their age.

SHINE @ Axis is being run in close partnership with Haringey Children's Service, which provides advisory support for recruitment, curriculum planning, monitoring and management.

Latest results

  • Axis continues to achieve excellent results while attracting a high percentage of students from deprived areas
  • 81% of students made progress of 2 or more sublevels of progress in literacy
  • 78% made similar progress in numeracy

The funding

SHINE has made three grants for the set up and project extension costs. Axis and Wisdom school are also providing in-kind and financial support for the programme.

Funding: £322,040 to Axis Educational Trust, over nine years (2006-15)

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"It is amazing to see how much children learn in the relaxed atmosphere of our Saturday school. I am trying to implement some of the ways we work here into my class during weekdays."

Teacher

"I really like teaching my class on Saturdays. I have time for those fun but educational activities I can't do during the week at my normal job."

Teacher

"If I don't understand my homework, my Saturday school teacher helps me to do it at lunch time. She is really nice!"

Student