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 Nationally, £1.25 billion 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 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