What is Study Support?

  • Learning activity outside normal lessons which young people take part in voluntarily
  • It is inclusive and covers many activities
  • Its purpose is to improve young people's motivation, build self-esteem and help them become effective learners
  • It aims to raise achievement

Study Support activities are run on school sites by schools or external providers, such as sports coaches, arts specialists, and in community settings. The common element is that each activity is run for a purpose - raising acheivement in its broadest sense.

Don't be put off by the name. Study Support isn't just homework clubs and booster classes but covers a wide range of activities including:

  • sporting and physical
  • outdoor, adventurous and environmental
  • creative and performing arts
  • craft and technology.

For more information see Study Support a national framework for extending learning opportunities [PDF 1,348KB] pdf logo a key national document for Study Support.

Study support national framework

What Difference Does it Make?

Outcomes front page

The Impact of Study Support - East Midlands Regional Collaborative Case Studies [PDF 6,739KB] pdf logo illustrates case studies to evidence outcomes and/or impact of Study Support in local settings.

Many schools have a Study Support Co-ordinator to manage and develop activities in order to contribute to school priorities and to interest and engage children and young people. Please contact the school direct to find out who this is. Extended Services Co-ordinators also hold the overview of what's available locally - for contacts see Extended Services Co-ordinators by district


Study Support Transition Summer Schemes in 2010

Schemes support transition to Year 7 and the most widely reported outcome is improved confidence. Schools are asked to provide one week / 25 hours of activity for a minimum of twenty five participants during the schools’ summer holiday. The specific target group for invitations and programme of activity are decided locally to support cluster /family of schools' priorities and many schools choose to include additional numbers and/or run longer programmes of activities.

We have been supporting schools to run similar schemes since 2000. In 2009 36 Study Support summer schemes involved 1433 young people as participants, an additional 150 young people as volunteers and leaders and 1827 family members parents and carers who attended celebrations and awards ceremonies. ( See more headlines and feedback on 2009 Schemes). In 2010 we have invited every secondary school in Nottinghamshire to run a Study Support transition summer scheme to improve outcomes for young people starting at secondary school in September 2010. See our Summer Schemes page

Schools are able to gain national accreditation of their Study Support programmes based on developmental, self review and a portfolio of evidence presented at a local network meeting to a group of peers.

Keep up to date with what's going on in Study Support in Nottinghamshire by reading our newsletters.

Check out useful links and publications that are available.

For further information contact us.