Throughout the years, K* has been with us he has struggled with English as a whole, especially the writing aspect of it.

Firstly, K did not want to write in his exercise book due to the fear of making mistakes. Mistakes to K seemed like the end of the world. Nevertheless, persistence and belief encouraged K to soldier on, this resulted in K eventually writing on a white board so pictures can be taken to stick in his book, then he would write in pencil on paper, then pencil in his book and so on.

Now, K is extremely close to finishing his Silver Step ‘Step Up to English’ award! This consisted of, reading, writing, speaking and listening modules.

This is a fantastic achievement for anyone, let alone K who had a fear of writing, full stop.

K should be very proud of himself for this, and his teacher is looking forward to working with K to get his Gold Step award completed in the very near future!

* The young person's identity has been anonymised.

Further information about the Step Up to English award is here   https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/elc/step-up-to-english-5970/introduction