1. Closing the gap for Disadvantaged Pupils
Teaching Strategies that work
Overlap with SEN
Getting ready for Ofsted

2. WHY?
Disadvantaged pupils on average do much less well than other pupils
Poor life chances
Low wages/unemployment
Ill health including mental health
Shorter life spans
Crime
Cycle of Poverty

3. Barriers to Learning Poor attendance
Poor behaviour/attention spans/attitudes/aspirations
Poor speaking and listening skills
Lack of confidence
Don’t read at home
Hunger/poor nutrition
Poor literacy – lack of exposure to different experiences
Child protection issues

4. So what do we expect?
Pessimism of the Intellect
Optimism of the Will

5. What works?

6. 6
Education Endowment Foundation toolkit: What does effective practice look like?
Leave one copy of the toolkit.
Metacognition and self-regulation –learnign to learn. Reflecting on what worked to help them learn – what stopped them. Making choices about which strategies to use to learn.

7. https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/

9. Metacognition and Self-Regulation
Articulating what helps you learn
Reflecting on Learning
Maximising Learning
Resilience Rucksack – Brunswick Infant school
Learn to Learn
ReflectEd (Rosendale Primary school
Butterfly model (Roy Leighton)–St Catherine’s School
Peer and self assessment

10. Early Years intervention
+ 6months
Research says
Use a variety of approaches including digital
Interactive reading with an adult is particularly effective to develop speech and language
Parental involvement – Tapestry
EY cluster work on transition between nursery and reception
Speech and language –BLAST (£20 on line training £215) Pennine Way
Short interventions –phonics, number, writing

11. Collaborative Learning
+5 months You need structured approaches with well-designed tasks.
KAGAN Rally Robin –What are the consequences of the outcome of the USA election? Numbered Heads Together How long is a piece of string? Quiz-Quiz-trade

12. Other teaching strategies
Teach to gaps – pre and post-teaching (Pennine Way)
Peer tutoring – Year 5/ 6 readers with younger children, maths champions etc
Learning detectives
Pupil governors
Focus on basic skills
Nessy (dyslexia resource) (£60 per year)
Precision teaching eg. Kirkby Stephen (John Taylor freebies)
Kangeroo maths (free) (BHG, Scotby)
Big maths
Mastery – White Rose Maths Hub -free

13. SEN pupils who are also disadvantaged
Ofsted August 2016 handbook “ Inspectors will consider the progress of pupils who have SEN/or disabilities in relation to all pupils nationally with similar starting points. Inspectors will examine the impact of funded resource for them in removing any differences in progress and attainment. The expectation is that the identification of SEN leads to different arrangements being made with a consequent improvement in progress”
“For groups of pupils whose cognitive ability is such that their attainment is unlikely to ever arise above “low” the judgement on outcomes will be based on an evaluation of the pupils’ learning and progress relative to their starting points at particular ages and any assessment measures the school holds.
Evaluation should not take account of their attainment compared to that of other pupils.”

14. Examples of groups of Pupils with SEN who will be expected to catch-up (any whose cognitive ability is not impaired)
Dyslexia and dyscalcula
Behaviour issues
ADHD
Speech and language difficulties
Time-limited medical conditions (glue-ear)
Those not expected to catch up but who should make progress
EHCP –complex needs
Those on P-levels

15. However…
Your tracking and analysis of disadvantaged pupils can include contextual information You can write case-studies to show complex needs and any successes
You can try removing disadvantaged pupils with SEN from the data and compare the remaining disadvantaged pupils with non-disadvantaged pupils (but it is only fair to remove any non-disadvantaged SEN too!)

16. Getting Ready for Ofsted
2016 website
You must publish a strategy for the school’s use of the pupil premium. You no longer have to publish a ‘pupil premium statement’.
your school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount
a summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school
how you’ll spend the pupil premium to address those barriers and the reasons for that approach
how you’ll measure the impact of the pupil premium
the date of the next review of the school’s pupil premium strategy

17. For the previous academic year, you must include:
how you spent the pupil premium allocation
the impact of the expenditure on eligible and other pupils

18. Strategy Template
Amend how you like as long as you cover the areas specified in the ofsted document.

19. Disadvantaged Pupils -progress

21. Attainment

22. Internal data
Ofsted will look at disadvantaged pupils across all year groups –not just those at the end of Key Stage. Ofsted will track individual pupils across the school to see if the gap is closing over time

23. Impact of individual strategies
One of the biggest weaknesses is that schools do not know which strategies worked and therefore which are worth continuing. Best practice is to review more regularly than once a year ( preferably whilst an intervention is ongoing or just finished)

24. What do inspectors do during an inspection?
Seating plan identifying disadvantaged pupils
Talk to children
Look in disadvantaged pupils’ books
Talk to governors
Talk to SLT
Look at current data
Look specifically at data for more able disadvantaged pupils
Watch phonics

25. Change lives... through high expectations
Who cares about Ofsted?
Change lives... through high expectations