 What do you want to know and be able to do as a result of this session?

 Understand the wide picture of pupil premium funding  Clarity about what might be missing in the lives of some of our children  Closing the gap  Making the case for additional funding for RE

Hart and Risley (1995) found that the first two- and-a-half years are crucial:  - Children of professional families hear 11 million words  - Children of families on welfare hear three million words

“This was our most surprising discovery: that the size of the differences between families in the amount of talk to babies is so enormous – and that those differences add up to massive advantages or disadvantages for children in language experience long before they start preschool.

By the age of five a middle class child has heard 32 million words more than a child from a deprived background.”

 Essential to look at the evidence of what makes a difference  Top of the list are:  quality feedback  meta cognition and self regulation  Peer tutoring  High quality homework

 Visits  Visitors  Artefacts  Quality feedback  Questions