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Impact of our work
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PROGRESS Stories
The role of cake in helping schools use their freedom Squidgy chocolate cake plays an important role in Antidote’s work with staff and students on delivering strategies that raise achievement by boosting enthusiasm for teaching and learning.... Names matter The majority of the student body wore headscarves. Over 80% were from Pakistan and all were female. The main issue that emerged when students started to explore their experience of school was that staff didn't know them as individuals... The meaning of fun Attaching the word ‘fun’ to ‘learning’ sets off alarm bells for many. It tends to be heard as the opposite of ‘rigour’ and ‘standards’... Staff-student collaboration Our experience in delivering the PROGRESS Programme is that the most interesting insights and creative solutions emerge from looking at the intertwined nature of staff and student experience... Burn High PROGRESS Programme The senior team at Burn High were confident they knew the issues that would be identified by staff and students doing the PROGRESS surveys in the school... PROGRESS Programme: Feeling the Pulse: Releasing Energy to Improve Learning Antidote's role in delivering the PROGRESS Programme to schools is to ensure that all members of the school community... Why Antidote's PROGRESS Programme works In the past few weeks, we have been talking with school leaders about the impact of Antidote's PROGRESS Programme... The joys and challenges of cohesive staff groups Being part of a close-knit, cohesive team of professionals working in a relatively small school might be thought to bring unmitigated joy. Yet, the very strength of this situation can be its Achilles heel... Using data to find out what is going on Antidote was working in a primary school, where data from the Environment for Learning Survey (ELS) showed that the children generally felt safe, included, accepted and listened to... Data reveals decline in good staff/student relationships from KS2 to KS4 Our current sample of 20,000 students shows a significant decline across KS2 to KS4 in their experience of the relationships that support their learning... Survey reveals students feel less listened to Our survey of 23,000 students shows that, between Year 3 and Year 11, they experience a 30% decline in their sense of being "listened to" around teaching and learning... One school’s experience of the PROGRESS Programme Antidote's survey yielded surprising results about children's learning experience: Year 7 children didn't feel listened to in lessons... A primary in Bexley and a secondary in Suffolk show how a focus on wellbeing improves learning and behaviour Like many other headteachers, Andrew Fell of Chantry High School in Suffolk regularly gathers information from students about their attitudes to learning or experiences of bullying... One school shows the key to boosting staff wellbeing lies in improving relationships Sheila could remember a time when the school staffroom was a friendly place to go to for advice, support and comfort. Not now, though... Student survey helps the school council get to the root of the problem Tariq sat on the bench in the playground as the wind whipped around him. Not for the first time, he thought that there must be a better way of spending break... | |
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