TKAT ACE
A Champion for Every Child
TKAT ACE - a champion for every child - provides
a dedicated 1:1 tutor for each disadvantaged pupil and their family.
a dedicated 1:1 tutor for each disadvantaged pupil and their family.
Piloted during 2020/21, the programme is now rolling out in all 45 TKAT schools.
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Making it Count
We've been working with ImpactEd since the beginning of the TKAT ACE programme.
Jamal's transformation story shows the power of the right support to make the difference in the life of a child. High-quality evaluation from ImpactEd Evaluation helped the ACE mentoring team understand and support Jamal.
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Better decisions using good evidence.
Read the ImpactEd TKAT ACE case study here
** FABULOUS NEWS UPDATE - scroll down **
Support from Propel funding collaboration to expand TKAT ACE
The Kemnal Academies Trust secures support from Propel funding collaboration to expand TKAT ACE (A Champion for Every Child)
The Kemnal Academies Trust’s ACE (A Champion for Every Child) programme has secured a game-changing grant from Greater London Authority through the Propel initiative, a long-term funding collaboration that will give the capital’s civil society and communities the flexibility, trust and capacity to make long-term, systemic change in London.
TKAT ACE is a unique and highly successful pastoral mentoring programme that is having a significant impact on the life chances of pupils across The Kemnal Academies Trust’s 45 schools. TKAT launched its A Champion for Every Child (ACE) pilot programme at the start of the 2020/21 academic year to support vulnerable children’s development. TKAT provided pupils entitled to Pupil Premium funding at the Trust with one-to-one time with a tutor who had been trained in providing support to potentially vulnerable or disadvantaged children. The aim of the programme was to help these pupils overcome barriers to their progress both in terms of academic outcomes, and their social and emotional development.
An external evaluation of the programme found significant improvements for participating primary and secondary students, including positive outcomes in reading and maths. Other results from the programme included significant improvements in pupils’ self-reported levels of goal-orientation, self-efficacy, and motivation. Pupils were also reportedly more engaged with school life. The full evaluation can be found here.
TKAT has received a grant of £472,000 which will be used to support London schools in introducing and sustaining the TKAT ACE programme. This will mean that within the next 2 years 2,000 pupils will have benefited from having a TKAT ACE Tutor.
Karen Roberts, CEO of The Kemnal Academies Trust, commented: "We are very proud of the difference TKAT ACE has made for the pupils in most need within the Trust and delighted that we have been supported by this Propel grant to take TKAT ACE into schools across London.
“Every child deserves a champion on their side, and we’re grateful to Propel for recognising the impact that this scheme could have on pupils across London.”
Propel is powered by London Funders and are being supported by a growing list of funders, including Bloomberg, City Bridge Trust – the City of London Corporation’s charity funder – The National Lottery Community Fund, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and main advice funders, such as Trust for London, coordinated by London Legal Support Trust. More information about the Propel collaboration is available here.
If you want to find out more about TKAT ACE or are interested in becoming a partner school please contact david.linsell@tkat.org
TKAT ACE is one-to-one tutoring for thousands of disadvantaged pupils.
About 5,500 primary and secondary pupils entitled to free school meals in The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) will receive pastoral and academic support.
It is believed to be one of the most comprehensive trust-wide mentoring schemes. It is also more welfare-focused than the National Tutoring Programme and more sustainable than initiatives funded through one-off recovery premium funding.
The “A Champion for Every Child”, or ACE, rollout has allowed schools to hire “ambition tutors” full-time for about a third of the roles, with existing staff such as teachers or pastoral support workers making up the rest.
During lockdown we learned:
through keeping in contact with our vulnerable pupils - the power of the one-to-one pastoral conversations
that just providing every PP student with an electronic device did not guarantee pupil engagement
that we could make better use of support staff.
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