The Hull Challenge

Hull Challenge (Hull’s response to the National Challenge) aims to ensure that the majority of young people leaving school in 2012 achieve at least five A*-C grades in their GCSE’s including English and mathematics.

Find out more about the National Challenge (link opens in a new window)

Eight pledges for secondary education

By 2012 in Hull -

• The majority of young people will leave school with five A*- C GCSEs including English and maths
  
• Every young person will leave school (including special schools) with a qualification or certificate of use to them in the future
  
• Every school will have more than 30% of its students achieving five A*-C GCSEs including English and maths
  
• Every young person of school age will either be in school or engaged in some form of learning
  
• Every school will be fully staffed with well trained teaching and support staff
  
• Every school will have an achievable plan towards becoming recognised as an outstanding' school
  
• The Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme will be well on the way to helping ensure that young people in Hull have the best teachers teaching in the best learning environments
  
• We will have shown year on year improvement - measured in particular by increases in the proportion of young people leaving school with five A*-C GCSEs.

If you would like to support our pledges and contact you to discuss ways in which you could play a part in transforming education in Hull, please complete and return the form below -

Hull Challenge schools

We are working with our partners to improve standards of education across the city by bringing in education experts to advise and coach existing school staff and embed an inspirational culture in our pupils and their families.

Find out more about the schools receiving National Challenge support as part of the Hull Challenge

Citywide school support

In addition to support for individual schools, we will work with our partners, elected members and stakeholders to develop a citywide Hull Challenge response to the National Challenge, which will be led by a Hull Challenge Trust Board.

This will mean building on a number of existing pieces of innovative practice that are being developed within the city and which are reflected in BSF plans, targets set agreed between the council and the government and in our children and young people’s plan.

This includes -

• working with the International Institute for Restorative Practices and Fiscal Policies Studies Institute to ensure best practice and accountability relating to all contacts with children and young people
• finding practical and inclusive ways to engage children and young people in decisions that affect their lives 
• inviting respected figures from the world of education and child welfare to join Hull’s Children’s Trust Board

Find out more about our children and young people's plan