AES Study and Homework Club - Last academic year – 2004/05 has been our second year running the project since it was set up. The club started to run the activity on the 18 th September 04 and ends 10 th July 05.Due to additional resources provided to us last year by NRF Literacy development and Study Support Unit of the LEA, AES increase its enrolment by 66 percent. This means that the number of children who had been on our waiting list the year 2003/04 33 pupils were registered and attended the classes this respective year 2004/05. The total pupils last year 80 children. Attendance had been very positive (89 per cent average). This is due to combination of high pupils’ motivation and parental involvement in the project. The project recruits an extra club tutor. This means that an extra parallel classroom has been set up to manage the classroom size, maximum 12 pupils. The club has gone to great lengths to better the understanding of pupils’ knowledge within numeracy and literacy. As a priority area, most of the time is spent on helping those pupils who bring homework with them from schools this leaves not much time for other pre-planed lessons. The homework club tutors have made use of different strategies to help pupils understand new or the useful concept of how to improve their work. The different strategies include,

• One to one benefit,
• Group-work,
• Teaching by asking questions also known Socratic approach,
• Written work, comprehension,and spelling.

National Numeracy and Literacy strategies were the main references used for the session planning, and this one of the suitable reference material used in the booster classes. The club supplied the primary learning and teaching resources such as, whiteboards and charts, books, and other relevant materials to facilitate teaching and learning aims of the club. It is felt that it would be more beneficial to year six pupils if the time slots were increased by an hour. This would allow greater time for feedback and analysis to be given to pupils. Also this would allow time for SATs Revision. During this year pupils had also gained an opportunity to attend ICT sessions (for the use of Excel, Power Point and Word). They did presentations on Space and Rain Forest through using Power Point Presentation.