StFridesRide for St Frideswides Primary School

We are fundraising for a specialist small groups teacher and this year we will ride from Oxford to Croatia, from Oxford to Lands End and the length of the Rhine River. We have matched funding of £10,000 - give £100 and we get £200!

£22,993
raised of £75,000 target by

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We have been raising funds for our school, St Frideswides Primary, Oxford https://www.stfrideswides.co.uk , to fund a second small groups teacher​. This method has been particularly successful for us​ and is ​supported by ​wider research from the Education Endowment Foundation: Working in small groups:

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit/small-group-tuition

​We are a part of the Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust (ODST) which manages over 40 schools and educates ​o​ver ​8,000 children. The trust is holding and manages money raised as restricted funds.

The school has now employed a teacher, working with Year 1 and 2 children, benefiting from the same logistical and learning support which has been instrumental in my own small group teaching. ​Our target impact will be at least 4 months of additional progress per child.​ Regular, standard assessments ​a​re used in our school to measure ​children's progress and evaluate our teaching.

Why a small groups teacher?

In September 2022 in Year 6, 25 children in Year 6 were identified as being at risk of not achieving their potential. 46% of the children had not made expected progress in the previous year and several had had a change in home circumstances and thus become disengaged with their learning. So we provided small group interventions with a focus on Maths and English comprehension catch-up.

The headline impact for our children was:

96% made expected progress in Maths and 40% of made rapid progress.

Seven children,previously at high risk of not passing, passed their Maths SATs

Of the ten children who took part in reading interventions, 8 made good progress

Why St Frideswides?

We are in the bottom 5% of Oxfordshire schools by income

Our school has double the national number of special needs pupils for this size of school.

Over 70% of our learners are from ethnic minorities.

36% have English as an additional language.

Those entering the school after normal entry age are usually new arrivals to the county, or are new to the country.

Children transferring to the school are often working at below national expectations in both English and Maths.

Why do we need the money?

When I started in 2022-2023, 65% of my cost was funded by the National Tutoring Programme ; this fell to 50% in 2023-2024. The fund was closed for 2024-25. The £100’s of millions of unused funds ( it had been chronically underused as it required matched funding from schools who have no spare cash…) has gone towards teachers’ inflation linked pay rises, we believe …

I have committed to donating 1 day per week of my employment cost towards our fund. Over three years this equates to in excess of £15,000.

If you can, please help us. If you have more questions contact me. If you wish to donate, use the JustGiving link above to StFridesRide. Watch out for the default “tip” setting which gives an extra 17.5% to JustGiving. It is editable.

Please think about regular giving, it can reduce the initial pain and given our longer term objectives really works for us. Andy

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Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust (ODST)

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ODST is a multi-academy trust supporting 43 schools across Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Our schools have the freedom to serve their communities in the way they know best, and this page may be used by all ODST schools for fundraising activities to support excellence in education for children.

Donation summary

Total
£22,992.77
+ £3,618.19 Gift Aid
Online
£15,742.77
Offline
£7,250.00
Direct
£15,742.77
Fundraisers
£0.00

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