Special Report: The flaws in Attainment 8 - Part 1

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The True Potential of the Child Who is accountable to whom? These measures and systems are designed to give accountability from schools to central government. Under discussion are the children of communities and at the very most central point of the “conversation” is the true potential of the child, your child. This potential has been professed and talked around for so long now that it has been taken for granted; it is taken for granted who can see, know, take care of the true potential of the child. This is the root issue, the elephant in the room. Given that most children spend a large amount of time in school today, who do you feel knows best the true potential of the child; the parents or the school? [ ePoll ]. Perhaps you feel that the parents and schools are or should be working together. How well do you feel parents and schools work together? [ ePoll ]. You are a foundation tier person. School Teacher and crystal ball. A8 & P8 Data Child Anwar Harris Cover Illustrator The flaws in Attainment 8 – Part 1: page: 22 of 39 Should schools be most accountable to the community or the government? This is a special feature report published with The Futurist (Haringey) - Episode 01 – 2018 https://www.futuriststeam.co.uk/doclinks/201807-0001.html | View the digital version online | Get all the helpful links and extra resources | [ v1.0 ] 10 th Aug 2018

Attainment 8 in Haringey by ethnicity and gender This is a table with the Attainment 8 results, which has the ethnicity and genders of all the students that go to school in Haringey, this has been sorted to the order of the males. The male Progress 8 results have a clear and consistently poor pattern regarding those children with “Black” in their official ethnicity designation. Females did generally better across all ethnicities except the “Asian...” ethnicities and White Gypsy Roma which interestingly inverted the trend with males doing marginally better than the females. Code Ethnicity Female Male Difference Total WROM White Gypsy Roma 18.0 19.8 -1.8 18.9 WIRI White Irish Traveller 31.0 29.1 1.9 29.6 BOTH Black Other 46.2 36.1 10.0 41.0 NOBT Not obtained 48.3 36.6 11.7 41.4 BAFR Black African 47.1 36.6 10.5 41.8 BCRB Black Caribbean 42.8 36.9 5.9 39.6 WOTH White Other 42.6 38.9 3.7 40.6 OOTH Other 40.9 39.1 1.8 39.8 ABAN Asian Bangladeshi 49.2 40.1 9.1 45.0 MWBC Mixed White and Black Caribbean 42.4 40.7 1.7 41.4 MWBA Mixed White and Black African 52.7 42.9 9.7 48.3 MOTH Mixed Other 50.3 44.1 6.2 47.3 AIND Asian Indian 52.1 53.0 -0.8 52.6 APKN Asian Pakistani 43.6 55.1 -11.5 47.0 WBRI White British 54.3 55.6 -1.3 55.0 AOTH Asian Other 46.5 56.3 -9.8 51.2 CHNE Chinese 62.7 57.6 5.0 59.8 MWAS Mixed White and Asian 64.7 61.1 3.6 62.9 REFU Refused 59.5 75.0 -15.5 68.4 In this table if we look at the female group throughout the table we can see females from a White Gypsy Roma background has the least progress score and females from a mixed white and Asian background have the highest Attainment 8 score . If we look at the male section we could interpret that males from a white Gypsy Roma background had a lower Attainment 8 score and males with the highest score refused to tell the monitoring system their ethnicity, which is curious. The flaws in Attainment 8 – Part 1: page: 23 of 39 Should schools be most accountable to the community or the government? This is a special feature report published with The Futurist (Haringey) - Episode 01 – 2018 https://www.futuriststeam.co.uk/doclinks/201807-0001.html | View the digital version online | Get all the helpful links and extra resources | [ v1.0 ] 10 th Aug 2018