1. BEYOND PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE
25 JUNE 2009
Rachel Gibb
The City of Portsmouth Girls’ School

2. Aims and Objectives:
 To work in collaboration with other schools
 To share good practice and revise current
practice
 To use local findings to inform future planning
for current projects and to extend to new
projects
 To measure the impact of student voice
involvement with ITT training, set against the
context of ECM.

3. The partnership:
LEAD SCHOOL The City of Portsmouth Girls’
School
PARTNERS Mayfield School, Portsmouth
Patcham High School, Brighton
Wimborne Junior School, Portsmouth
ITT PROVIDERS Chichester University
Portsmouth University
Sandown College
Brighton University

4. What we did:
 Agreed an initial strategy
 Set out a timeline
 Worked together with pupils in each others’
schools
 Met regularly and emailed – a lot!
 Gathered data from each of our schools
 Wrote an end of project report for PDS / TDA
 Fed back local information to our own schools

5. What did we find out?
 Comparisons of three like-for-like groups
in terms of attendance showed no
improvement in attendance in the non-
intervention group (- 0.23%), some
improvement in a standard intervention
group (+4.4%) and highest improvement
(+6.6%) in the SV ITT group. This was
measured across an academic year.
Enjoy and achieve

6. What did we find out?
 Comparisons of two like-for-like groups in
terms of school generated data showed the
standard intervention group achieved a mean
average improvement in points of 16.2 points
per pupil, and the SV ITT group showed a
mean average improvement of 19.2 points per
pupil. This was measured across an academic
year.
Enjoy and achieve

7. What did we find out?
Pupils:
 I really enjoyed working with the trainee teachers. It made me realise I
had some good ideas. People listened to me. I thought about my
behaviour in class and decided I wanted to be a better student.
(Patcham High)
ITT students:
 I agreed with their suggestions and I was interested to hear how their
feedback related very much to the pupils’ learning experience rather
than my teaching style. (Wimborne Junior)
Parents:
 My daughter has enjoyed the responsibility and trust that has been
given to her being part of this project. (Patcham High)
Making a positive contribution

8. Impact
 Wimborne Junior school now regularly use SV
observations as part of their ITT training programme, and
it is an important aspect of the work of their school
council. CPGS continues to work with their pupils and, as
one of our feeder schools, this allows continuity of
provision.
 CPGS, Patcham and Mayfield have continued their work
and revise their practice so that pupil involvement in SV
ITT is broader and not just the domain of G&T pupils.
 All staff involved have used aspects of the project for M
level qualifications or the NPQH.
 At CPGS this has been used as a model of good research
practice to inform and guide other small-scale research
projects for SSAT work.

9. Contacts:
Rachel Gibb: rachel.gibb@cpgs.co.uk
Elaine Clale: calee@cpgs.co.uk
CPGS: 02392 812822