Mary Hare School leads the way in Contextual Value Added results published this week
Once again, Mary Hare School has received the top Contextual Value Added (CVA) score out of all schools in the UK, in the recently published government performance tables. The CVA score measures how much difference a school has made to the predicted outcomes for students aged 11-16. At the age of 11, pupils are tested to predict what their GCSE outcomes are likely to be. If a pupil betters this prediction, the Value Added measure reflects this.
Students coming to Mary Hare School often arrive with a reading age that is below their actual age. Profoundly deaf children need help and support to develop their written, spoken and communication skills and this in an area in which Mary Hare excels. Students at Mary Hare are able to make up the skills that they initially lack and therefore achieve excellent academic results at GCSE and beyond.
School Principal Tony Shaw says, "At Mary Hare School, every teacher is a qualified Teacher of the Deaf. We do everything we can to enable a profoundly deaf child th achieve their full potential, botha academically and in a social context. This includes the audiology and acoustic environment and putting 'language' at the heart of everything we do."
Pictured, prizewinners at the school's annual Speech Day in December 2009, receiving their certificates.
