Background

The programme was originally developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore by Dr Robert Slavin. In 1997, the Centre for Teacher and School Development, led by Professor David Hopkins and Dr Alma Harris, at the University of Nottingham began working with the 'new' Nottingham City LEA to develop a small pilot scheme for the adaptation of Success for All to English schools. At this time the programme was launched in five primary schools in the Meadows area of the inner city. After just one year, there was evidence of pupils making considerable progress in reading levels - in some cases, this was as much as one year's progress in one term.

Currently, we are working with over 200 different schools across the UK from West Lothian in Scotland to Bromley, Bristol and Bridgewater in the South West. The majority of these schools are in areas of high social deprivation with all the challenges and limitations of aspiration and achievement associated with this. In all schools, the programme has made an impact on the percentage of children achieving age-appropriate National Curriculum levels. Click here for analysed data showing this.

Since 2007 Success for All-UK has been working in partnership with the IEE, University of York on a number of action research projects which are investigating the impact of using co-operative strategies in Maths at KS2, KS3 Maths and English, Powerteaching Project, a KS3 TechTeam maths project and an interactive phonics programme at KS1.