YEAR 5 - STRIVE

The students from across each school will combine to work collaboratively. This course is designed to inspire and academically extend our Partnership school Year 5 pupil premium students who are high achieving. They will study a carousel of English, Maths, Science and Coding over the course of two terms. Each student will have a 1:1 Y11 or Y12 mentor from WHS.

Aims

The aim is to inspire year 5 students from partner primary schools, monitoring and encouraging those high achieving girls who may be potential bursary candidates for WHS. Additionally, the aims are to build self-confidence, self-efficacy, raise aspirations to further acquire the drive to succeed and to have fun. 

Background

The foundations for philanthropy and partnerships were laid over 100 years ago, by the four pioneering women who founded the GDST. They not only believed that girls should be entitled to the same academic education as their brothers but also that a GDST education should be accessible to able girls, whatever their background, and so scholarships were offered from the outset. This principle is still fundamental to the GDST today and across the 25-school network, financial assistance is given to approximately 1,100 girls every year. 

All year 11 and year 12 students are involved in at least one programme during their time in these year groups, and with a drive to push increased partnerships work during co-curricular time, more opportunities are opening for the younger year groups. 

Resources

Our Partnership schools utilise the facilities at Wimbledon High to help cover a carousel of activities lead by teaching staff from Wimbledon High. For example, using the schools laptops for Coding and the equipment in the STEAM tower for Science.

Impact

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Pupil Involvement

There are 52 mentors from WHS who are each allocated with a mentee from an external school. The WHS students are year 11/year 12 and the partnership school students are in year 5 from a mixed gender group. 

Frequency

STRIVE is an on-going 15-week programme during the Autumn and Spring Terms on Thursday afternoons for an hour.