1. Differential educational achievement quiz

2. Who does better in school?
Boys or girls?

3. Girls
Girls do better than boys at every level of school including SATS, GCSEs and A-levels
By the end of secondary school girls are on average 7 years ahead of boys in their educational attainment

4. Which social class achieves more highly in education?
Upper class
Middle class
Working class

5. Upper and middle class children generally do much better in school than working class children.
94% of 15 yr olds= 5+ GCSE C+ (affluent areas)
24% of 15 yr olds= 5+ GCSE C+ (deprived areas)
Challenge- Do you think this always has to be the case? How could this pattern be stopped?

6. Ethnicity can greatly influence your achievement in education-
TRUE OR FALSE?

7. Challenge- Can you come up with an explanation for why this could be?
TRUE
Different ethnic groups achieve very differently throughout their education- some achieve highly and other groups struggle.
Challenge- Can you come up with an explanation for why this could be?

8. Which ethnic group achieves most in education?

9. Indian students are next best with 72% A*-C at GCSE for girls
Chinese and Indian
Chinese students achieve the best in education - particularly girls who get 79% A*-C at GCSE
Indian students are next best with 72% A*-C at GCSE for girls
Challenge- What would make these students do well in their education?

10. Which ethnic group generally does worst in their education?

11. Black Caribbean (boys) and Black African
These ethnic groups achieve amongst the lowest % GCSE grades of all groups and along with Pakistani and Bangladeshi students are under-represented in university
Challenge: What could we do to stop these groups underachieving?

12. Introduction to educational reforms
L.O: All will be able to explain how the British education system has changed over the last 150 years and why the changes were introduced
Starter:
Work on your own in complete silence.
Complete as many questions on the worksheet as you can.
You will then swap your sheet with someone else who will mark your answers.
10 Mins

13. Answers 84 bricks crawled, trudged, trotted, galloped, raced Whom
The island of Skokholm
Rome
Give a mark out of 5 and return the worksheet.

14. So what?
Well, if you had been around between 1944 and 1965, at the age of 11 you would have sat a test full of questions like these. It was a test designed to measure your intelligence – natural intellectual ability.
Depending on how well you did in the test, you would end up going to one of three types of school:
Grammar – 5 correct answers
Secondary modern – 4-3 correct answers
Technical – 0-3 correct answers
Do such tests still exist today?
Class discussion

15. Educational reforms
Educational reform means the laws passed by the government to change the education system.
It can also be referred to as educational policies.
Students take down notes

16. Task 1 Marketplace Work in groups of 3.
20 Mins
Marketplace
Work in groups of 3.
Each group will be given information sheets about a different educational reform.
Read the sheet and decide which is the relevant information to be included into your poster.
Allocate a task to each member, e.g. selecting the information, writing, images, captions for the images.
Make a poster for the class about the educational reform.
You have 20 minutes so each member of the group has to be working simultaneously.

17. Task 2
5 Mins
Fill in the worksheet with information from your poster. You have 5 minutes.
Choose one member of your group to be the ‘seller’ – this person needs to have excellent presentational skills. The remaining 3 members of the group will be the ‘buyers’.
The ‘seller’ has to stay with your poster and ‘sell’ your knowledge to ‘buyers’ from other groups.
The ‘buyers’ have to go to the other groups to ‘buy’ their knowledge – listen to the ‘seller’s’ explanation and fill in the worksheet.
You have 15 minutes.

18. Task 3
15 Mins
The ‘buyers’ have to return to their original groups and take turns to explain what they found out. You must explain, not just let them copy your notes!
Everyone else has to fill in the worksheet.
You have 15 minutes.

19. Forster Education Act – introduced elementary schools
Home learning
Draw a timeline to show all the reforms from to Include the name of the reform and the changes it introduced.
Due – Next Tuesday
Example:
1870
Forster Education Act – introduced elementary schools