Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of The Children and Young People’s Service) To inform Members of the results at Foundation Stage, Key Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 and Post 16 for 2008.

The Committee received a report on exam results at Foundation Stage, Key Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 and Post 16 for 2008. The Committee was advised that, due to a national delay in validating the results for Key Stages 2 and 3, the report included estimates for these results, and a final report would be brought to the Committee once validated results were available.

The Committee welcomed the improvements seen within the exam results, and praised the pupils, teachers, staff and the former Director of the Children and Young People’s Service for their achievement.

In response to a question from the Committee on how long it would take for Haringey to reach the national average for pupils achieving 5 or more A*-C grades at GCSE, including English and Maths, it was reported that Haringey was on target to achieve this within 2 years but that it was hoped that it could in fact be achieved within a year.

It was reported that work was ongoing to address the disparities in results for the different groups identified in the report. It was reported that there was an emphasis on developing language skills in Early Years, and that this would be of benefit to pupils for whom English was not their first language.

The Committee requested that analysis of results for white, working-class males be included among the grouping of results in the final version of the report.

RESOLVED

That the analysis of the results set out in the summary report be noted.