We are proud to share our latest annual report, highlighting our work and impact across the 2022/23 academic year.
You can download the report directly to your device here:
CoachBright Annual Report 2022/23.
Across our four regions, we have supported over 2,750 young people improve across a range of outcomes. Whether that’s attainment, social and emotional development, or their school attendance, we are extremely proud of how a simple coaching programme, well executed, can achieve incredible impact for some of the most disadvantaged young people in the UK.
We hope you enjoy reading it, and of course reach out on team@coachbright.org if you would like to discuss any of the work we do at your school, university, or workplace.
As part of our ongoing partnership with evaluation specialists ImpactEd, we are constantly looking to better understand and improve our impact.
After four consecutive annual impact reports showing the difference our coaching programmes make on both attainment and social and emotional outcomes, we wanted to look at how we can address one of the major crises in education at the moment: attendance.
Working with ImpactEd, they conducted additional analysis of our programme data, and found that both our Core and Peer to Peer programmes had a profound impact on the attendance of disadvantage pupils, particularly those who are eligible for the Pupil Premium, and are persistently absent from school.
coachbright impact report 2022-2023
We are extremely proud to post our fourth externally validated Impact report in partnership with ImpactEd, for the period 2022-2023.
This report demonstrates the impact of our coaching programmes on participating young people’s social and emotional skills and attainment, and reflects the aims and outcomes that are identified in our Theory of Change.
The ImpactEd platform was used to collect metacognition, self-efficacy and motivation skills data as well as attainment data for over 350 young people aged 11 - 18.
Key Findings:
Young people recorded an increase in all social and emotional measures.
Young people eligible for Pupil Premium (PP) were above the national benchmark in all validated social and emotional measures.
Both female and male young people scored above the national benchmark after the programme, in metacognition, self-efficacy and motivation.
Young people saw an improvement in their maths attainment by 11.1%.
Pupils eligible for PP saw a larger change in their maths and English attainment compared to their non-eligible peers.
Two years on from Covid-19 impacting all aspects of the education sector, we are proud to have been able to support more pupils than ever and to have grown our impact for the year 2021-2022:
Attainment impact: CoachBright pupils improved their subject grade by 0.5 of a grade, over 15 hours. This is nearly a third more progress than non-coached peers.
We supported a total of 4,168 pupils over the year.
We worked in schools across London, South East, South West and the West Midlands.
“Positive changes were observed across all social and emotional skills for CoachBright pupils. The increase was highest for metacognition and deemed statistically significant.”
Independent Evaluator - ImpactEd (2022)
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) cites metacognition as one of the most impactful interventions for disadvantaged pupils, with an average impact of an additional seven months per academic year.
“The coaching I got made a real difference in my life in a short space of time. She was like a friend with great listening skills, as well as an adviser and motivator. My coach not only helped me in terms of revising for my exams but made me see the wider picture in terms of university and experiencing a whole new adventure. I started being able to balance my study time better by not putting so much pressure on myself and for this I am forever grateful because it helped me regain confidence. I began to believe in myself.”
“Increase in metacognition DEEMED statistically significant”
Independent evaluator - ImpactEd (2022)
Evaluations also showed an average increase of 10% in confidence, an impact marker that is at the core of a young person and central to how we think, feel, behave and how we experience and embrace life.
As young people develop and have new experiences, confidence levels fluctuate. For many of our young people, Covid lockdowns followed by the cost-of-living crisis have been intensely negative experiences that have had a sustained and detrimental impact on their confidence, self-esteem and learning.
We were really pleased to see stable increases across our self-efficacy marking questions.
School Testimonials
“CoachBright has been a key strategic strand of our work supporting disadvantaged students across the Ted Wragg trust.
Their coaching programmes has boosted our disadvantaged pupil’s academic outcomes and confidence!
Would highly recommend to other schools and trusts. ”
“CoachBright has helped ARK Globe Academy’s sixth formers to recognise their ability to achieve their best.
One-to-one coaching provides our students with the opportunity to become inspired and motivated by some of London’s best graduate and university students.
It has allowed our pupils to take greater responsibility for their learning by creating a culture of self-confidence and self-direction. We’ve seen our first intake of Sixth Formers getting off to a strong start with CoachBright, with many cases jumping up an entire grade boundary.
I’m confident that our pupils will now be better poised to attain the best grades possible and make the transition to top universities.”
“Cranbrook Education Campus were privileged to work with CoachBright on the Girls into STEM project this year.
The CoachBright coaches provided targeted, personalised support to our budding Year 9 female pupils supporting them to improve their knowledge of and grades in STEM subjects.
The coaches were highly motivated and built excellent relationships with our pupils. Pupils really enjoyed the University visit and graduation service. We look forward to working with CaochBright again next year.”
