Learning Support – Looking Back and Forward

It is the time of the year that we look back to celebrate the journey in learning support and think forward on what we can improve for better future outcomes. In BMIS, learning support is one of the fundamental areas that is used to support the teaching, learning, and progress of our students. The provision ranges from individualised lessons, group lessons, in-class support, access arrangements, informed assessments, and study skills support.

The process of joining learning support is mostly determined by teacher referrals, standardised assessment results, and day-to-day progress outcomes. Lessons happen after school except for in-class support which is during regular lessons. These lessons are used to accelerate progress in areas the learners are significantly behind age-appropriate expectations. In summary, for one to be in learning support, the justified proof is always needed to help teachers design a suitable intervention plan.

Some of the students who attend learning support were asked to highlight personalised benefits of learning support and make suggestions on how to improve this provision. This is what they had to say:

Denis (Year 7): “It has helped me improve on my punctuation and in reading faster. In future, we should do online learning also and get more teachers in learning support.”

Kevin (Year 7): “Learning support has helped me like and improve in my reading, writing sentences and spoken English. In the future, I need to do an exam for learning support.”

Hendrika (Year 9): “Learning support has helped me to understand the things (content) I have missed in my classes or not understood. In future, I think learning support should be a lesson for everyone to get help.”

Poul (Year 10): “This academic year, learning support has helped me a lot to improve in Maths and English. Next year, we should do more past papers and exam style questions.”

Cornelius Ondieki

Inclusion Leader