The Sidney Stringer Academy is extremely proud of its year 11 to post 16 transition process. One essential tool that is used within the Academy is the Post 16 Passport to 16+. This 20-page passport is used for students to who initially do not meet the criteria expected to enter our post 16. After an initial interview if year 11 students have not met our expectations within post 16 for attendance, punctuality, behaviour or attitude to learning they will be placed on this passport for six weeks. This gives students the opportunity to prove they have the necessary credentials to be offered a place within our post 16. The passport is provided in publisher format and can be edited to meet your school needs. This has proven to be an extremely powerful tool in preparing our year 11 students for post 16 studies. Subject teachers see it as a powerful tool to improve attainment and focus in year 11. Students see it as a fair and transparent process. How does it work? - Once students are identified they are given the passport. - The passport runs for a 6 week period - Students must look after the passport and are solely responsible for this over the 6 week period. - Every subject will be allocated a page and it is the students responsibility to hand the passport to their subject teacher at the end of the last lesson they have with that teacher each week - Staff need to allocate the necessary score in each category - Students repeat this process for every subject every week for the six week period - At the end of the six weeks students must ask each teacher to write a short comment on their suitability for post 16 studies - At the end of the six weeks students must get their house/year head to write a comment on their suitability for post 16 - At the end of the six week students must get their parents to sign the passport. - Students then submit the passport to post 16, it is reviewed and students are re-interviewed. - If students are successful they receive an offer letter. If they have not then the process can be repeated for a second time.

This workbook has been designed as an interactive, thought provoking and interesting guide to life for those disenfranchised students that need that extra motivation and support in school and designed by a school SENCO. It has 14 pages packed full of questions, activities, puzzles and tasks, all designed to make students question, what am I doing this for? It can be used with students who have been removed from mainstream lessons/placed in an isolation room, students that have arrived on a placement from another school, or even just to help students look at what they want their future to be! It has been highly successful in it’s current setting, and works best when a student is working individually, or as part of a group with teacher facilitation, it gives an opportunity for you to learn more about a student, what motivates them, makes them tick, and what you can do to support them where perhaps others are currently failing. Designed as a running document with fun rest breaks in between, student feedback has been overwhelmingly positive! Especially the equipment Maze!