November 4, 2024 • 3 mins
The Government is trialling an intensive maths tutoring programme to pick up students falling behind.
It'll run over the first two terms of next year, for about 2,000 Year 7 and 8 pupils.
The trial will use small-group tutoring and supervised online tuition for 30 minutes, up to four times a week.
Education Minister Erica Stanford says it's the first of its kind.
"This is going to be a hybrid model, where we have some young people learn in groups of four just with a tutor - and then we'll have a hybrid model where we've got that happening, plus some online learning using a maths programme."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Heather Duper see Alan Heather lockdowns were never in the
public God. Actually, I'm going to deal with the lockdowns
and the tarmuquis and just to tack it's nineteen past
five now the governments announced it's going to try to
get kids a little bit of help with some of
those maths issues. So from next year there's going to
be a trial of maths tuition two thousand, Year seven
and Year eight students will be part of this program.
It will be intensive. The kids will get thirty minutes
(00:21):
extra tuition up to four days a week. In the
Education Minister's Erica Stanford, Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rika, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm very well, thank you. So what is this? Is
this the kids sitting in a classroom learning from a
teacher dedicated thirty minutes a.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Day something like that. We know that all of the
international evidence tells us that if you are really far behind,
especially in mathematics, one of the best interventions you can
do is intensive tutoring in small groups to get up
to where you need to be. Because a lot of
our students have missed big chunks of their learning and mathematics,
and we are particularly targeting those in Year seven and
(00:53):
eight who are not going to see all of the
benefits of our amazing new curriculum and all of our
new materials going to go off into high school and
not be where they need to be. So we've had
reading interventions in the past, we've never had one for maths.
And my intention is that we put this trial up,
see what it does, and then roll it out.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah. Okay, so it's only for two thousand this time around,
But how many thousands of kids actually need it?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do you think? Oh, there'll be many thousands of kids
that need it. I just want to make sure we're
doing the right thing. We have done some trials in
the past or that the previous government have as well
around tutoring, and we learned some lessons there. But this
is going to be a high bred model where we
have some young people learning groups of Ford just with
a tutor by themselves, four times a week half an hour.
(01:36):
And then we'll have a high bred model where we've
got that happening plus some online learning using a maths
program as well. And so we've got a few different
things running. We're going to see which one after twelve
weeks works the best. Which is the best intervention and
then we will lock to roll that out.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Listen, Erica. We spoke at the very start of the
program to a couple of principles from Havlock Northrope said
about the bus being cut for the schools coming in
from Clive, which is about ten or fifteen minutes away.
Is this just a cost saving thing by the Ministry
of Education.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, it's not cost saving at all. Any eligible child
who is eligible for a school bus will get it.
The issue that we've got is we have rules in
place and if for ineligible students, the Ministry does reviews constantly.
They do them every single year to see as children
move in and out of different areas and different schools
(02:24):
are used to eligible for school transport, and if you're not,
then the route will change. So I'm going I think
in that particular case there is a public bus that
is available, then it becomes so we are the Ministry
are the provider of last resort when there is nothing
else available. But if there is a public bus, it
is then on the council to make sure that that
(02:45):
route is on time and then picking up the right
kids from the right place. That is up to them.
But look, I acknowledge that that there are some probably
some things we can do much better in school transport.
In March or February March this year, I've tasked the
ministry with some work to go away and have a
look at how we can do better.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Cool Erica, thank you so much appreciated Erica Stanford, Education Minister.
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Heather Duper see Alan Heather lockdowns were never in the
public God. Actually, I'm going to deal with the lockdowns
and the tarmuquis and just to tack it's nineteen past
five now the governments announced it's going to try to
get kids a little bit of help with some of
those maths issues. So from next year there's going to
be a trial of maths tuition two thousand, Year seven
and Year eight students will be part of this program.
It will be intensive. The kids will get thirty minutes
(00:21):
extra tuition up to four days a week. In the
Education Minister's Erica Stanford, Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rika, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm very well, thank you. So what is this? Is
this the kids sitting in a classroom learning from a
teacher dedicated thirty minutes a.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Day something like that. We know that all of the
international evidence tells us that if you are really far behind,
especially in mathematics, one of the best interventions you can
do is intensive tutoring in small groups to get up
to where you need to be. Because a lot of
our students have missed big chunks of their learning and mathematics,
and we are particularly targeting those in Year seven and
(00:53):
eight who are not going to see all of the
benefits of our amazing new curriculum and all of our
new materials going to go off into high school and
not be where they need to be. So we've had
reading interventions in the past, we've never had one for maths.
And my intention is that we put this trial up,
see what it does, and then roll it out.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah. Okay, so it's only for two thousand this time around,
But how many thousands of kids actually need it?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do you think? Oh, there'll be many thousands of kids
that need it. I just want to make sure we're
doing the right thing. We have done some trials in
the past or that the previous government have as well
around tutoring, and we learned some lessons there. But this
is going to be a high bred model where we
have some young people learning groups of Ford just with
a tutor by themselves, four times a week half an hour.
(01:36):
And then we'll have a high bred model where we've
got that happening plus some online learning using a maths
program as well. And so we've got a few different
things running. We're going to see which one after twelve
weeks works the best. Which is the best intervention and
then we will lock to roll that out.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Listen, Erica. We spoke at the very start of the
program to a couple of principles from Havlock Northrope said
about the bus being cut for the schools coming in
from Clive, which is about ten or fifteen minutes away.
Is this just a cost saving thing by the Ministry
of Education.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, it's not cost saving at all. Any eligible child
who is eligible for a school bus will get it.
The issue that we've got is we have rules in
place and if for ineligible students, the Ministry does reviews constantly.
They do them every single year to see as children
move in and out of different areas and different schools
(02:24):
are used to eligible for school transport, and if you're not,
then the route will change. So I'm going I think
in that particular case there is a public bus that
is available, then it becomes so we are the Ministry
are the provider of last resort when there is nothing
else available. But if there is a public bus, it
is then on the council to make sure that that
(02:45):
route is on time and then picking up the right
kids from the right place. That is up to them.
But look, I acknowledge that that there are some probably
some things we can do much better in school transport.
In March or February March this year, I've tasked the
ministry with some work to go away and have a
look at how we can do better.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Cool Erica, thank you so much appreciated Erica Stanford, Education Minister.
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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