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18th November

Blog Stories

The Power of Progression (Chapter 2)

Derbyshire’s Virtual School has the foresight and the courage to put their money and their people where their mouth is – and if anyone’s shouting out for the most vulnerable young people in our society you can be sure UFA wants to be there alongside. When Kim Johnson (AHT) and I planned a framework for

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11th November

Blog Stories

The Power of Progression (Chapter 1)

  Amid much talk about progress, how to assess it, how to maximise it, how to close the gaps I make sense of this hydra through the individual journeys I witness and contribute to through raising their confidence in themselves to progress beyond their (initially) limiting beliefs. In February I wrote about a cohort of

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14th October

Blog Stories

Growing Confidence

As a mum of four children I have seen their confidence ebb and flow over the years. The onset of the teenage years clearly heralds the age old battle between self- doubt and confidence. You look at your children and see their strengths, their potential, their best qualities and you wonder why they aren’t more

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8th March

Blog Stories

Win a UFA Peer Tutor Training programme for your school!

Win a UFA Peer Tutor Training programme for your school! We have been training Peer Tutors for 19 years and see its impact in school and community settings up and down the UK week in week out.  We are keen to spread the word further and as part of our charitable work are offering one

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14th January

Articles

‘Peers’ – we are proud to make a difference

‘Peers’ a film showcasing UFA Peer Tutoring in action at St Philip Howard School, Glossop from UFA National on Vimeo. We aren’t ones to blow our own trumpet at UFA, but we are incredible proud of this film. We are proud of ‘Peers’ because it captures the massive impact of our Peer Tutoring programme on

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16th October

Latest News

Mercer’s Trust help UFA measure the impact of Peer Tutoring

The UFA team is delighted to announce the start of an exciting project in the West Midlands to track the impact of Peer Tutoring, specifically focusing on the peer tutors themselves. Funded by a donation from the Mercer’s Company Charitable Trust, the programme launched last week with two secondary and two primary schools from Walsall

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21st August

Blog Stories

Russian Dolls, sticks of rock and other useful metaphors.

Our approach to training Peer Tutors is, like all of our training, underpinned by our 10 Learning Essentials.  These are like the letters running through a stick of UFA rock. All of our training seeks to embody these. But for our Peer Tutor training we need another metaphor too.  We often explain this process using

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7th August

Blog Stories

Straight from the horse’s mouth…

At UFA we believe in peer tutoring, in the benefits to the school, the community, the teachers and of course to the young people involved. A great deal of research and evaluation has been carried out across the globe to measure the impact on learning, performance and on the confidence and wellbeing of all the

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31st July

Blog Stories

When evidence is surprising…

  The recent findings from two EEF randomised controlled trials looking into the impact of peer tutoring have surprised researchers and teachers alike.  Both studies report no ‘positive impact on academic attainment.’ These findings are interesting, primarily because they challenge the evidence gathered thus far – but also because it’s the same team of researchers

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