132 pages
A4
ISBN-10: 1 85856 383 6
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 383 1
April 2006

…compelling and uplifting, underpinned by a judicious range of quotations and research, but essentially a practical book that makes us realise what we can all achieve if we put our minds to it.- Times Educational Supplement

Gaining five good GCSEs opens the door to opportunity for young people. This book is about how schools can help borderline students find the way to achieve. The authors share principles and practices that in their experience have proved hugely successful.

Every year there is an anxious wait for examination results. Have the students we tried to help made it? This book presents new ideas that have proved effective. For those who believe they have tried everything possible here is something practical and different.

This book is for school leaders, raising standards coordinators and teachers who want to help students reach their full potential at GCSE.
Headteacher of Nunthorpe School in Middlesbrough for nineteen years, John Rowling now works as a consultant on raising standards in London schools and on leadership training and development. His books, Heading Towards Excellence and Changing Towards Excellence are published by Trentham.

Wyll Willis is Deputy Head at Wickersley High School, Rotherham, where GCSE performance has leaped dramatically in the past two years. Formerly he was Assistant Headteacher at Nunthorpe School in charge of raising standards, at the time that the school was listed in the ten top performing 11-16 schools in GCSE in England.