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Pupil Premium - The performance of vulnerable pupil groups (G17-PP-Cov-01)

20/06/2018 in The Welcome Centre Enquire about Course

Duration: 2 hours

Time: 09:30 - 11:30

16 places available

Price: £100

Address: Parkside, Coventry CV1 2HG

Course description

 

Note: we recommend that every governing board should nominate one “link” governor with a particular responsibility to help hold the school to account for its pupil premium provision.

Governors are required to monitor and evaluate how well pupils are learning, and to use their assessment as a basis for school improvement. A priority for governing boards is to ensure that all groups of pupils are performing well in relation to both national expectations and to other pupils within the school. The latest Governance Handbook and Ofsted Inspection Handbooks emphasise more clearly than ever the need for governing boards to hold their school to account for closing the gap in performance between any low achieving groups and the other pupils. This priority was reinforced by the December 2017 DfE paper “Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential:   A plan for improving social mobility through education”.

 A particular focus of this session is on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds who qualify for Pupil Premium funding (including those qualifying for free school meals). Delegates will consider examples of good practice identified through Warwickshire’s current Closing the Gap programme.

 The course will also consider other nationally recognised pupil groups, such as those with special educational needs and disabilities, but delegates will discuss any groups of pupils in their own school who are at risk of under-achieving.

 This course aims to: 

·         Establish the key pupil groups in each school and identify useful measures of performance

·         Outline governors’ statutory roles and responsibilities with regard to specific groups

·         Explore how governors can monitor and evaluate the achievement of pupil groups, with particular reference to Pupil Premium outcomes

·         Consider examples of good practice and the questions that governors should be asking of their school.

Service contact

Sally Ashley
01926 745117
governors@warwickshire.gov.uk

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