Making it REAL in Jersey - Year 2 Scorecard

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1. Making it REAL Raising Early Achievement in Literacy in Jersey

   Report Card No. 2

2. Engaging parents in their children's early literacy development has been

   shown to improve children's outcomes and help to narrow the gap between less advantaged and other children. NCB’s Making it REAL programme enables practitioners to reach out to parents and families, building confidence and knowledge to support early home learning, with a powerful impact on children’s outcomes and on family literacy practice. All nurseries and pre-schools in Jersey have been offered the opportunity to take part in an island-wide programme which includes a focus on literacy and maths. This report card reports only on the REAL literacy project and presents data for two school years 2016/17 and 2017/18. 1. About the programme Making it REAL

3. How much did REAL do in 2017/18? How well did

   REAL do it? • Training: 92 practitioners & 6 champions • Delivery: REAL offered to 67 settings; take up was 57 (i.e. they had some involvement with REAL). Within the settings that took up REAL, 40 families have received home visits in 17/18 • Gender/ethnicity/language of the child: 55% of participants are boys; 94% are white and just under four-fifths (78%) speak English as their first language at home • Literacy events: Literacy events held in 16 settings and attended by: - 348 children; and - 339 parents • Quality of training: 92% of those trained stated it was either Excellent or Very Good • Ongoing support: 29% of those trained by the end of Year 2 attended 1 or more network meetings • Reach of programme: - 76% of Early Years settings delivering REAL - 87% of children engaged in REAL home visits Is anyone better off? • Impact on practitioners: 92% (61 of 66) of attendees rated training Excellent/Very Good in terms of “increasing knowledge of engaging with parents to support learning” • Impact on parents: 84% (26 of 31) parents reported increased confidence in terms of them being able to support their child’s early literacy • Impact on children: - 74% (26 of 35) of parents reported their child’s literacy, language and communication had improved - Four-fifths or more reported improvements in oral language (93%; 14 of 15); awareness of environmental print (80%; 28 of 35); increased sharing of books (95%; 18 of 19), and improved engagement in early writing (87%; 27 of 31) - Library membership increased from 44% (15 of 34) at the baseline to 79% (30 of 38) at the endpoint

4. How much? Making it REAL

5. 37 19 14 22 59 78 92 0 50 100

   H1 2016 H2 2016 H1 2017 H2 2017 No. practitioners trained Per half year Cumulative 0 6 6 6 0 5 10 H1 2016 H2 2016 H1 2017 H1 2017 No. of REAL Champions trained Cumulative No. of settings trained in REAL 2016 2017 34 (of 47) 45 (of 67) No. of families receiving home visits 2016 2017 30 40 57% 55% 43% 45% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2016 2017 Gender of children participating in REAL Male Female 93% 94% 6% 3%3% 1% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2016 2017 Ethnicity White Mixed Asian Black Other Child’s language English • 84% in 2016 • 78% in 2017 Portuguese • 10% in 2016 • 15% in 2017 Other • 6% in 2016 • 7% in 2017 Number of… 2016 2017 Settings 28 16 Parents 611 339 Children 735 348 Participation in literacy events Note: Other’ category comprises 1 French, 1 Polish & 1 German/Russian speaker

6. How well? Making it REAL

7. Programme reach across Jersey EY settings in 2017 Quality of

   practitioner training 61% % of Early Years settings delivering REAL projects % of children involved in REAL receiving home visits 76% 2016: 72% 87% 2016: 24% % of practitioners rating quality of Excellent/Very Good 2017 92% % of trained practitioners attending at least 1 network meeting in the school year following their training 2016 29% 2017 Note: The equivalent figure for 2016 was 100%

8. Is anyone better off? Making it REAL

9. How are practitioners better off? Training has helped to increase

   knowledge of… Figures are for those trained in 2017 No. respondents 66 66 26 65 2016 98% 92% 86% 74% How are parents better off? 80% 13% 7% Increased Stayed the same Got worse 2016 84% 13% 3% Increased Stayed the same Got worse 2017 Parents’ level of confidence in supporting their child’s early literacy

10. 71% (55 of 77) 74% (26 of 35) 29% (22

    of 77) 26% (9 of 35) 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2016 2017 A lot A little Not at all Extent to which children’s literacy, language and communication skills have improved How are children better off? No. & % of children registering improvements between the start and end of REAL 42% (34 of 81) 68% (55 of 81) % of children who are a member of a library BEFORE AFTER 76% 72% 67% 61% 93% 80% 95% 87% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Oral language Awareness of environmental print Sharing books Engagement in early writing 2016 2017 31 of 41 14 of 15 51 of 71 28 of 35 26 of 39 18 of 19 33 of 54 27 of 31 2016 2017 44% (15 of 34) 79% (30 of 38)

11. Making it REAL