Focus30 project in partnership with Brentford Football Club Community Sport Trust (BFCCST)
Now in its second full year, HEP secured a further £40,000 funding from The Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) for a weekly intervention programme to support secondary students facing barriers to learning and struggling to manage their own behaviour, impacting on their achievements in school. BFCCST coaches work with small groups of targeted students (Year 7-9) for half a day each week for 8 weeks.
Focus30 has two elements which sees students take part in a classroom lesson working through key identified topics, followed by a practical sports session. BFCCST coaches deliver the full programme in school.
Project target outcomes:
- Remove barriers to learning
- Develop skills and strategies to manage own behaviour for improved learning
- Reinforce positive attitude to learning
- Raise aspirations and a sense of achievement
Statistics:
- 72% of students said that they were better at taking responsibility for their own behaviour
- 70% felt having completed the programme that they could now manage their own feelings and emotions
- 70% stated that they were better at taking responsibility to owning up to their own actions which often get them in trouble
Feedback from participating schools:
“Prior to the programme starting we sat down with the BFCCST staff, we discussed the criteria of the programme and then went back to look over our behaviour reports from the start of the year. We wanted to select students who were currently struggling with barriers to learning due to a range of different factors including neighbourhood deprivation as we felt they would gain so much from this programme. As a school we measured the impact through student feedback and observation of students’ overall behaviour during lesson time and unstructured time.”