the pupil premium grant (ppg) & the sutton trust analysis of best practice usage virtual school...
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The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) & The Sutton Trust Analysis of
best practice usage
Virtual School for Looked After Children
Background to the PPG• Announced Dec. 2010• Nationally, £1.25 billion 2012-13• For ‘pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to
ensure they benefit from the same opportunities as pupils from less deprived families’ (DfE Ministerial Statement)
• Aimed at underachieving groups i.e. FSM, LAC (for @ least 6 mths.), Services’ children
• Aims to: Increase social mobility Enable pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
to go to top Unis Reduce attainment gaps (Sutton Trust)
Background to the PPG
• Currently £600 p.a.• Above equates to 2 → 3 teacher days per pupil
per year• Statutory school age• Mainstream & special schools• Funding via LA• Academies also funded via LA
Background to the PPG for Looked After Children
Local discretion on application, therefore:• LAC PPG distributed termly (to account for
mobility)• Element of PPG (Short Stay
Schools/independent providers) to be used centrally
• Usage monitored via the Personal Education Plan (PEP) & Quality Practice Check
• ‘Our’ children out of county – passported via receiving LA & vice versa
Impact of PPG – how additional resources can affect outcomes
• Clear linkage between expenditure & pupil learning hard to ascertain
• Sutton Trust has developed a ‘Toolkit of Strategies to Improve Learning’
• This aims to identify areas of expenditure ‘which offer better bet than others’
• Combines evidence from other research analyses
Cost
Impact
Assessing impact against cost
Strategies that have high impact but low cost
• Effective feedback
• Meta cognition strategies
• Peer learning
• Assessment for Learning
• Homework
• Parent or carer involvement
• ICT
Strategies that have high impact but also high cost
• Early intervention
• One-to-one tuition
Relating these findings to practice & influence
• Can you use PPG on the more ‘cost effective’ additional resources?
• Ways of sharing this learning?
• Can you offer a forum for sharing good practice usage of the PPG?
• What are your further training needs?
Contact information
Christopher Tyler
Headteacher, Virtual School for Looked After Children, Staffordshire
01785 854195