The reasons boys achieve at this school are many, but particularly because we encourage:

• their parents, carers, teachers and other adults to notice what they do well and praise them regularly, consistently and specifically;

• adults tell them they can achieve; we show them how to achieve, we let them achieve and we praise them when they achieve;

• them to READ, READ, READ and the adults to read with them; them to read by themselves and adults to share their love of reading;

• adults to give them responsibility for themselves and for others, to support them to tie their own ties and clean their own shoes and organise their school bag for the next school day, to read with their younger siblings and cousins and friends and to do chores around the house, increasingly becoming leaders;

• adults to talk with them and listen to them and answer their questions and ask them
  questions and do things together with them;

• them to work hard, to try hard, to never give up, to do their homework (and more), to come to school regularly and to see these things as strength.