Leicester City School Sport Partnership

What is Study Support?

'Study Support is learning activity outside normal lessons which young people take part in voluntarily. Study Support is, accordingly, an inclusive term, embracing many activities - with many names and guises. Its purpose is to improve young people's motivation, build their self-esteem and help them become more effective learners. Above all it aims to raise achievement extending opportunity: a national framework for Study Support (DfEE, 1998)

When can Study Support activities take place?

• before school, break-times, lunchtime and after school
• in the evenings, weekends, school holidays
• sessions of Study Support within a re-orgainsed timetable
• at one-off events such as local and national performances and celebrations

What forms do Study Support activities take?

• sporting and physical activity of all kinds (including the unusual)
• outdoor, adventurous and environmental activities
• programmes which extend the curriculum
• creative and performing arts of all types
• craft and technology, including ICT
• homework clubs and open access to libraries and learning resource centres
• booster and revision sessions linked to subjects of the curriculum and cross curricular themes
• hobby activities and games clubs
• community service, many kinds of volunteering
• peer education and mentoring
• theme-based summer schools
• breakfast clubs
• supplementary schools

All can happen on school premises or elsewhere, for example in libraries, museums and sports clubs or youth centres.

Study Support continues to be the governments preferred term for this wide ranging set of activities because of the positive tone of the words study and support. They recognise that some local authorities use the term 'out of school hours learning' or a similar phase. Many schools when promoting activities to their students, use a name thought up by students themselves.

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