Assertive Mentoring is a system used in over 1,000 UK schools to improve student achievement. It involves regular mentoring meetings between students and teachers to set targets, assess progress, and provide support. Students are also grouped by ability for weekly "Big Maths" sessions to practice skills. The goals of this information evening are to explain what Assertive Mentoring is, how it will be implemented at St. Elizabeth's school, and how it can benefit parents and their children.

1. Assertive Mentoring
Information Evening
for Parents
Wednesday 6th
February

2. This evening’s aims
• to explain what
Assertive Mentoring is
• to explain how it will
work in St Elizabeth’s
• to explain how it will
benefit you and your child

3. What is Assertive Mentoring?
 A personal approach used in
schools to improve standards.
 It brings together a number of
different strategies and joins
them together under one
system.
 Around 1,000 schools in
England have adopted the
Assertive Mentoring approach.

4. Why Assertive Mentoring?
Evidence shows it can:
• Raise standards for all
• Increase a child’s
motivation to improve.
• Better inform and
involve parents

5. What does it involve?
 Mentoring: 1-to-1 meetings with teacher.
 Assessment: Where are the children now?
 Tracking: Are they where they should be?
 Target Setting: Where are they heading and what do they
have to do to get there?
 Support: What help is needed?
 Maths: Big Maths sessions

6. Mentoring
Target
Assessment Setting
Your
Child
Support Big Maths
Tracking

7. Assessment and
Long-Term Target Setting
Year Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Pupil 1 3C 3B 4C 4A 5B
Pupil 2 2B 2A 3B 4C 4A
Pupil 3 1A 2C 2A 3B 4C
Progress +1 +2 +2 +2

8. Learners learn best when they:
 Understand what they
are trying to learn
 Are given feedback
about their work
 Are shown how
to make it better
 Are fully involved
in the process

9. The Mentoring Meetings
 Happen at the start of every half-term.
 Are 1-to-1 and take place outside of the classroom.
 Last between 10 and 20 minutes.
 Children bring along their mentoring file.
 Targets are set for reading, writing and maths.
 Progress in these subjects is discussed.
 Attitude to school is also discussed.

11. Progress +1 +2 +2 +2

15. Mentoring
Target
Assessment Setting
Your
Child
Big
Support Maths
Tracking

16. Big Maths
 Big Maths sessions take place once a week for children in
Years 2 to 6.
 Children are grouped by their Level, rather than by their
age. There are 12 groups spread around the school.
 Each group is taken by either a teacher or teaching
assistant and usually consists of 5 to 15 pupils.
 Sessions begin with children doing a 20-minute test.
 The remainder of the session is spent re-explaining and
practising the questions that children couldn’t do.
 They are given a mark for the test and labelled green,
yellow or red. Two or three ‘greens’ and they are moved to
the next level.

17. How will Assertive Mentoring help you?
 Increase the information
you have about your child’s
progress.
 Allow for a three-way
conversation at parents’
evenings between yourself,
your child and their teacher.
 Help your child to progress.

18. How can you help?
 Ask your child their targets.
 Help them to achieve them.
 Ask your child their Big
Maths score each week.

19. This evening’s aims
• to explain what
Assertive Mentoring is
• to explain how it will
work in St Elizabeth’s
• to explain how it will
benefit you and your child