Ethnic Minority Achievement Service

Turkish and Kurdish Achievement

There are almost 2,000 pupils of Turkish and Kurdish origin in Islington schools. This section includes details of our Turkish and Kurdish strategy and research into Turkish and Kurdish issues.

Current Projects:

The Turkish and Bangladeshi Key Stage 2 Projects - 2009
The project focuses on involving Bangladeshi and Turkish families in their children’s learning and encouraging them, through participation, to support their children in achieving higher levels of attainment. Both projects are proving to be tremendous successes!

Previous Projects:

Turkish GCSE at primary schools for children and parents ( Oct 2008)

We started this 5 years ago and have seen very pleasing results. There is a high A*-C pass rate (including 100% A*-C at Rotherfield School during 2007/08) and it helps increase the confidence of students in other subjects. It is currently being implemented in 6 schools in Islington.

Numeracy Project (with parents)

Numeracy workshops for parents have proven to be a good way of increasing success rate of children in Numeracy. This project officially started in 2006, in 4 schools for the Turkish-speaking parents and 2 schools for the Bengali parents.

SATS results for students whose parents attended the workshops markedly exceeded their predicted grades.
The project is currently in progress at 6 schools for the Turkish-speaking parents and 2 schools for the Bengali parents.

Backgammon Workshop - Learning Plus Advisory Teacher (school improvement service)

We started this project during the summer term (2008) at Highbury Grove School. The aim was to design, craft and make a backgammon set (including wooden board / foldable case, all pieces and dice). This was done over 6 sessions on Saturdays and was very valuable for the students as it allowed them to use their spare time to do something constructive.

They learned how to use various different tools and how to plan, implement and see through a project from start to finish. They also learned the rules to a historic and culturally significant boardgame and were able to take the sets that they had built home to enjoy the game once the project had come to an end.

It was also pleasing to see that their friendships had improved over the course of the project.

Photographs of our Turkish Speaking Parents and Pupils Projects (2004)

Downloads and Links

A strategy for raising the achievement of Turkish & Kurdish speaking pupils in Islington Schools 2003-4

The achievements and aspirations of Turkish and Kurdish girls at Key Stage 4

Kurdish Research Project

Turkish Speaking Parents Numeracy Project (2003)

The British Education System in Turkish

Contact:

Yuksel Ferit - (Consultant Turkish and Kurdish Boys)

Useful links: