Starfish Story: Oki Kayode
5 January, 2012
A boy in my Year 9 class was consistently getting bad grades in science. In his last assessment he only achieved a level 4b. According to the government, pupils should be achieving level 5s in all subjects by Year 9. He was underachieving greatly which meant all hope of him doing triple science at GCSE was disappearing. As a result of this, his science teacher asked me to mentor him because she has seen how capable he is. I met with him every week on Wednesday and Thursday mornings before school to find out what he’d been learning in science, and to explain to him the more difficult concepts. In his current assessment, he achieved a level 6c which is above what is expected of him at his age. He is now on track to do triple science at GCSE. Now all he needs to do over the next few terms is to make one more sublevel of progress to a level 6b and he’s all set!
