Pupil Premium
In July, the Department for Education announced a series of measures to improve the effectiveness of the pupil premium. These include:
- Increasing schools’ accountability on disadvantaged pupils’ attainment by requiring Ofsted to focus on this more during inspections
- Detailing the support available to schools as part of the pupil premium review
- Appointing John Dunford as the National Pupil Premium Champion
- These measures follow the publication of an independent evaluation of the pupil premium. Key findings from the evaluation include:
- 80% of secondary schools and 67% of primary schools have introduced new support and/or enhanced their existing support for disadvantaged pupils as a direct result of the pupil premium
- 75% of schools thought using additional staff to support disadvantaged pupils was very effective
- two-thirds of schools thought they would not be able to do as much for their disadvantaged pupils without the pupil premium
- 70% of schools already use evidence from other schools and 45% use academic research to help them make decisions on how to spend their pupil premium funding
All of Reading Matters’ programmes can benefit disadvantaged pupils in your school or setting and the results will provide measurable evidence for the justification of Pupil Premium funds for these services.
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