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School Matters: Black Boys
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(narrator)
The statistics are clear:
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boys from African
and Caribbean heritage
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start school
at average academic levels,
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but by the end of Year 2
they're beginning to fall behind.
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In Year 6 only 50% of black boys
achieve level 4 in English,
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compared with 70% of all children.
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The gap widens
through secondary school.
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Only 30% achieve five good GCSEs.
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The national average is 54%.
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In this film,
we'll find out what's going wrong
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and see how three London schools
have each found their own solutions.
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A primary in Hackney
is starting early,
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teaching boys some crucial
but basic behaviour skills.
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A secondary in Brent
has been employing
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a high number of black teachers
for more than 20 years.
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And a boys' school in South London
is making it cool to learn.
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I love it. I love studying.
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(boys shouting)
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(narrator) Colvestone wants to get
to grips with disaffection early.
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You've got two strawberries
and one vanilla.
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The school's concerned about
a group of black boys in Year 6
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who aren't achieving the targets
teachers are expecting of them.
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To help find out what's going wrong,
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the boys have been
closely observed in class.
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They're fiddling with elastic bands,
sucking their thumbs,
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gazing out of the window,
looking at each other,
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physically pushing on each other
and that kind of thing.
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All these sorts of things
are distracting behaviours...
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(interviewer) Aren't they behaviours
that many boys in Year 6 exhibit?
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Yeah, they are behaviours
that many boys in Year 6 exhibit.
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However, for... for this
particular group of young men
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in Hackney at this moment in time,
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it's not just about the behaviours
they're exhibiting in class.
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We're looking at the whole child
and what their learning needs are.
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We're going to begin with a little
bit of breathing and meditation. OK?
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I want you to stand, just quickly.
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(narrator) The nine boys
are with Mike, a former teacher
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who now works as a consultant
for the local education authority.
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They encourage them to think about
the consequences of their behaviour.
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It's their third session.
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This week I've heard
that the focus has been better.
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But I want to know from you how
you know the focus has been better.
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How do you know that?
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Sometimes, if I see
a pencil on the carpet,
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I pick it up and fidget with it.
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But now, if I see a pencil on
the carpet, I just leave it alone.
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So that's one way that we can know -
less fidgeting. OK, very good.
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I've learnt, like, not to play
with elastic bands in class
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or suck my thumb or mess about.
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I should just listen to the teacher.
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If I don't,
and it's time to do your work,
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you won't have an idea what to do.
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(Mike) OK.
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Some time ago,
Menor found he was pretty strong,
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and then he started
picking fights with people.
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But now he tells the teachers more,
he talks to people more and stuff.
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(Mike) OK. That's good, Menor.
That's very good.
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- (Milton) Well done.
- (boy) Menor...
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Mike and his colleagues in Hackney
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believe this early intervention
at Key Stage 2 is crucial -
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before the boys arrive in secondary
school and are set in their ways.
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The statistics show that somewhere
between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
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there begins to be a dip
in the children's achievements.
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I suspect that one needs
to go as far back as Year 3
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and capture children at that point
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if you want to sustain
the achievement.
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As a group, yeah,
I've tried to come to school.
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Normally, in the weeks,
I wouldn't come on a Monday.
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Even though I came half-day today,
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I still will attempt to come on
a Monday and try and... Hopefully.
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(narrator) Addressing behaviour
is just the first step.
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Mike believes these black boys'
lack of concentration
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is part of a bigger picture.
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The truth is that
for young black men in this society
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there are a number of things
that have fallen by the wayside.
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There's less community cohesion
amongst black communities nowadays.
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More of our children are
more distanced from older men
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who are able to impart
the wisdom of the community.
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And I suppose that, with young men
only relating to each other as peers
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and not relating to older people,
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their ability
to see beyond themselves,
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to see the potential of what life
might really be like for them -
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in terms of talking to older men -
that doesn't happen.
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So the idea is that working as men -
them and Milton, or them and me,
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or perhaps them and other men
in their lives -
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they can begin to develop some glue
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that will enable them to see
the vision for their lives
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and be able to develop
a perspective on self-growth
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and what they might be like,
and how to realise those things.
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We're gonna focus on how we can
be strong in our purpose.
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Remember we said that every time
we do something positive in class
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it's like saving up for the future?
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Mike is using
the lyrics of a reggae song
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to provoke a discussion
about values.
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I'm gonna look at the first bit
that says "Chorus".
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The chorus says:
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"Nobody wanna plant the corn
Everybody want to raid the barn."
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What do you think that means?
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It means, like,
no one wants to do the work,
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they just wanna take what comes out.
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I think it means
everybody don't wanna do no work,
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but they wanna take over.
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- Take an easy ride.
- Yeah, take an easy ride.
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(narrator) Using the song is in
keeping with the school's philosophy
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of celebrating black culture.
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I want all the children
at Colvestone
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to feel that this is their school.
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And in terms of their identity,
I want them to feel comfortable
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with whosoever they happen to be.
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In terms of the black children,
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I believe the children
are black British children
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who come from a rich and diverse
cultural heritage.
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You're more likely to succeed if
you're comfortable with who you are.
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So we try to grab
every opportunity we can
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to acknowledge those differences
in a positive way,
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and to celebrate it
as much as we possibly can.
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(Mike) Let's offer each other
a sign of peace and friendship.
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OK?
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They can do things together.
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We don't have to embrace
what comes through the media,
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from the US,
from the black urban male -
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that the bling lifestyle rules,
it's one over the other,
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and "I'm the best, better than you."
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There are other values,
the values promoted in the Caribbean
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in the '70s, and later as well -
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our values of collectivity
and how we might do things together,
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how we might work together and have
a sense of self-worth and dignity
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which comes from our own roots,
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and not the roots of another culture
that are being imposed on us.
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(narrator) By the time
the children reach secondary school,
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challenging this bling lifestyle
is even more difficult.
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Copland has 2,000 students.
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A third are of
African-Caribbean heritage.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the bell's
gone. Lesson five is about to begin.
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(narrator) Sir Alan Davies
has been head for 16 years.
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He believes employing black teachers
makes a huge difference.
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So much depends on
the quality of the teacher -
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the ability of the teacher
to deliver the curriculum.
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But once you've got a teacher
who can deliver the curriculum,
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pupils relate more
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to a high-achieving teacher
from the same ethnic group,
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the same ethnic background.
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And it provides a role model
for the students to aspire to.
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Students are looking
for role models.
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We are going to give
each of the different beakers
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the same amount of energy.
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(narrator) Frank Sampong
joined the school 18 years ago.
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His background is African-Irish.
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45% of teaching staff here
are from an ethnic minority.
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That's more than six times
the London average.
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I think one of the fortunate things,
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being from an ethnic minority,
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is I've got high expectations
for them as well.
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I've done it -
I've got to my level in education -
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and therefore there's no reason
why they can't look at me
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and say, "Well, I can do that."
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I see the kids outside.
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A number of our pupils
will drop their waistbands
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so the crotch of their trousers
is way down,
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they walk with a strut,
in a hat and hood.
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But I know that they're not
negative characters.
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How are we going to measure it
more accurately?
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- Erm... that's already been done.
- That's been measured with the...?
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Oh! Good boy.
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(narrator)
But is the colour of a teacher
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more important than
the quality of their teaching?
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Having good black teachers makes
all the difference in the world.
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Having poor black teachers could
have a negative impact on children.
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But a good black teacher
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can empathise possibly
with these children
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in a way that a white teacher
may not be able to -
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simply by coming from
the very same experience
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and being able to understand
the cultural issues of the children.
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- Is that 1,000?
- No, that's 500.
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- Oh, yeah.
- Sir, there are only 26.
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They've all started at the same
temperature? Well, you're lucky.
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I went to school in Brent.
I grew up in Brent.
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I also, as luck would have it,
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went to a school where most people
were expected to progress -
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it was just the norm.
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And I think one of the things
that is failing our pupils
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is that their parents
went to school at the same time
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and didn't have those opportunities,
didn't have the expectations,
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and therefore many have grown up
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without having expectations
for their children.
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They want them to do well, and want
them to go to university at times,
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but quite often that's not
a natural progression,
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as it is in many
middle-class white families.
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(narrator)
Copland has tried to address
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a lack of educational support
at home.
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Staff identified a group of
African-Caribbean boys in Year 10
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who ought to be achieving
higher grades,
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and their parents were called in
for one-to-one meetings.
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The senior leadership team invited
parents to come in with their child
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to say, "This is the situation."
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"We've got strategies that
we can put in place to support."
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So we offered Saturday school,
we offered summer school,
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we offered monitoring
and mentoring systems.
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We offered access to
online internet learning as well,
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and we showed the parents
how they could access that
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and how they could support at home.
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We had an evening where we had
coursework, and we said,
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"This is what a good piece
of coursework looks like."
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"If you want to help your child,
this is what to look for."
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Because many parents said things had
changed since they were at school
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and they didn't actually know what
it was they were trying to achieve.
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So those very practical things
worked very well, in fact.
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(narrator) At the same time, Copland
began to encourage black parents
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to become more involved
in school life.
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We've been doing a range of things
in terms of initiatives
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and trying to help the parents
help their children,
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which I think is as important.
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And it's part of
this partnership thing
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that we don't think
it's just down to the school
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to help our children.
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Because, at the end of the day,
if we don't help, who else will?
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The school has educated
us as parents also.
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One good thing they did
was they took us in the IT room
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and they showed us where we could
find websites of courseworks,
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things we could do at home
to get the children learning.
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That's benefited us as well.
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One of the other good things
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was in terms of
communicating good things.
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One of the initiatives was the
text messaging service to parents.
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So we use that to tell parents
if children are doing really well.
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When we've looked at that
in the focus groups,
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that's gone down quite well
in terms of giving good news
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as well as negative - "We need you
to come in and talk to us."
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(Dwight) A gentleman I know
was talking about his son.
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He'd come home in the evening -
"Have you done your homework?"
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His son would say no.
He'd say "Go and do it."
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His son would go by the table, and
he'd be miserable and struggling,
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while the dad sits
in front of the television, relaxed,
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flicking through the channels.
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Then he looked across
and saw how miserable his son was,
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and he got up and started helping
him and started to interact.
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And his child just changed,
his whole learning thing changed,
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and he was more involved because
his dad was helping him through.
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(narrator)
What the parents have noticed
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is that the students who are doing
best are those from Asian families.
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What are they doing
that we're probably not doing?
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Because our children
attend the same schools,
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so we can't say
it's the school's fault.
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Because Asians are doing so well,
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yet Afro-Caribbean children
are not doing as good as they are.
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So there's something happening
at home that we need to investigate.
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That's where probably the answer is.
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So maybe look at the whole culture,
look at the bigger picture.
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A lot of the Asian families have
a better support network at home,
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in terms of the kids.
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My daughter's got a friend
in her class,
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and the parent actually tutors four
of the other kids one day a week.
0253 10:15:54:10 10:15:56:05
She's not a qualified teacher,
0254 10:15:56:05 10:15:59:07
but they get the books
and they sit them down.
0255 10:15:59:07 10:16:03:21
Things are getting better.
It will just take time.
0256 10:16:03:21 10:16:07:08
A support network is needed. We are
starting to support each other.
0257 10:16:07:08 10:16:11:09
The message is, parents should
get involved with the school
0258 10:16:11:09 10:16:14:07
and with their sons or daughters.
0259 10:16:14:07 10:16:18:21
And if you develop that sort of
relationship, it will work.
0260 10:16:21:19 10:16:26:14
(narrator) But has this strategy of
targeting parents produced results?
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We've just analysed our achievement
data in Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4,
0262 10:16:31:22 10:16:37:17
and still the Asian-Indian children
are achieving the highest results
0263 10:16:37:17 10:16:40:20
at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
0264 10:16:40:20 10:16:44:20
But through checking carefully on
the Caribbean and African students,
0265 10:16:44:20 10:16:48:08
their trends are getting better.
0266 10:16:48:08 10:16:50:08
They're not as high
as they should be,
0267 10:16:50:08 10:16:52:21
but we're going
in the right direction.
0268 10:16:55:01 10:16:57:19
(narrator) At Colvestone,
teachers have also found
0269 10:16:57:19 10:17:01:11
that communicating practical skills
to black parents works.
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I'm a keen believer
in demystifying learning
0271 10:17:06:07 10:17:08:07
as much as I possibly can.
0272 10:17:08:07 10:17:11:02
So I take every opportunity I can
when I meet parents
0273 10:17:11:02 10:17:14:09
to try and make sure
we're speaking the same language.
0274 10:17:14:09 10:17:19:21
If someone isn't doing well
at reading, what can you do?
0275 10:17:19:21 10:17:24:14
Where is it we want to take them
on simplifying it?
0276 10:17:24:14 10:17:27:04
We feel that that actually works.
0277 10:17:27:04 10:17:30:18
I do think the black community
needs to take responsibility.
0278 10:17:30:18 10:17:33:20
We need to say, "These are
our children. We need to own them."
0279 10:17:33:20 10:17:36:00
"We need to make
some sacrifices for them
0280 10:17:36:00 10:17:38:16
in order to shepherd them
in the right way."
0281 10:17:44:14 10:17:48:06
(narrator) Forest Hill has
tried a different approach.
0282 10:17:48:06 10:17:51:02
Instead of targeting individuals,
0283 10:17:51:02 10:17:54:00
they've developed a project
for all black boys -
0284 10:17:54:00 10:17:57:19
to improve their learning,
thinking and communication skills.
0285 10:17:58:15 10:18:00:24
From Year 7 through to Year 11,
0286 10:18:00:24 10:18:04:16
they're taught separately
for one lesson a week.
0287 10:18:04:16 10:18:07:20
We wanted entitlement.
It was very important for us
0288 10:18:07:20 10:18:10:14
that we weren't just doing
targeted interventions,
0289 10:18:10:14 10:18:14:01
because we wanted it
to go to all students.
0290 10:18:14:01 10:18:19:07
So there was a big debate - should
we give 20 students a lot of it?
0291 10:18:19:07 10:18:23:19
Or should we give
all of the students a little bit?
0292 10:18:23:19 10:18:26:00
We decided we would
go with entitlement.
0293 10:18:26:00 10:18:30:22
That makes the project quite unique,
cos we give it to everybody.
0294 10:18:30:22 10:18:33:15
I feel that
that has been successful,
0295 10:18:33:15 10:18:37:00
because it stops
the rest of them thinking:
0296 10:18:37:00 10:18:39:14
"There's something wrong with me."
0297 10:18:39:14 10:18:42:16
Do you know anyone in your life
0298 10:18:42:16 10:18:46:04
who you might think
is a successful person?
0299 10:18:46:04 10:18:47:23
- Courtenay?
- My uncle.
0300 10:18:47:23 10:18:49:08
Why?
0301 10:18:49:08 10:18:54:11
Cos he done well in school
and university.
0302 10:18:54:11 10:18:56:21
(narrator) The aim
of this Year 7 lesson
0303 10:18:56:21 10:19:02:03
is to get boys to think long-term
about where they're going in life
0304 10:19:02:03 10:19:04:06
and what skills they'll need
to get there.
0305 10:19:04:06 10:19:07:10
- OK. Rees?
- My brothers.
0306 10:19:07:10 10:19:09:16
Both my brothers went to school.
0307 10:19:09:16 10:19:14:00
One wants to be an architect
and the other one a physiotherapist.
0308 10:19:14:00 10:19:15:22
OK. David?
0309 10:19:15:22 10:19:19:08
My brother is
still going to college,
0310 10:19:19:08 10:19:25:21
but he plays football for Chelsea -
the reserves.
0311 10:19:25:21 10:19:30:01
He still learns as well -
he goes back and forwards.
0312 10:19:30:01 10:19:32:05
- What about you, Bruno?
- My mum.
0313 10:19:32:05 10:19:33:20
Tell us about her.
0314 10:19:33:20 10:19:38:18
As soon as she came to this country,
she started to study.
0315 10:19:38:18 10:19:41:12
And now she's a hairdresser, so...
0316 10:19:41:12 10:19:45:21
When you hear the word,
what does "success" mean for you?
0317 10:19:45:21 10:19:49:02
- What does it suggest to you?
- What does it suggest?
0318 10:19:49:02 10:19:53:24
That I must pass in everything
to get success.
0319 10:19:53:24 10:19:59:13
So you see success as something that
you have to have qualifications for.
0320 10:19:59:13 10:20:01:07
Yeah.
0321 10:20:01:07 10:20:03:16
What are successful people like?
0322 10:20:03:16 10:20:06:16
What qualities do they have to have
to be successful?
0323 10:20:06:16 10:20:08:23
Arran? Haven't heard from you.
0324 10:20:08:23 10:20:10:14
- Stephen?
- Good grades.
0325 10:20:10:14 10:20:14:21
They had to have good grades. OK.
They had to have good grades.
0326 10:20:14:21 10:20:17:14
- You have to, like, achieve.
- Good.
0327 10:20:17:14 10:20:19:19
Success for you means achievement.
0328 10:20:19:19 10:20:22:19
(David) You achieve
to get better jobs.
0329 10:20:22:19 10:20:27:20