Therapy project yields ‘dramatic’ rise in Sats results at London school

A Nurture practitioner helping a child. The programme supports children who face multiple adversities in their lives. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

A therapeutic programme for primary schoolchildren that was designed by the Kids Company founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, is to be rolled out to more schools after a pilot scheme showed a dramatic improvement in test results.

The Nurture programme, which supports children who face multiple adversities in their lives, has been running in a single primary school in central London. Not only do Sats results appear to have gone up, attendance and attention have improved and there has been less disruption in class, the school says.