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

christopher.tyler@staffordshire.gov.uk

01785 854195