Transcript The Aspirer Teaching Alliance in conjunction with Cheshire

Primary PP Project:
Cheshire East Council in
conjunction with Aspirer
Teaching Alliance.
The Aspirer Teaching Alliance
 Director
of Teaching School – Emma
Hooley
 Led by Ash Grove Academy – Executive
Principal Kevin Simpson.
 8 Primary Schools across CE
 2 Secondary Schools
 LA
 Edge Hill University
 IOE - London
Our bid….
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Pupil premium was a major factor in the initial bid
which led us to talk to the LA about helping coordinate
the project.
Ash Grove has 80% ever 6 children across the school
Been on a journey to ensure PP children make
maximum progress
Now PP outperform non PP children in every year
group
Kevin’s philosophy is that even though he has a lot of
children in receipt of PP, many of the strategies they
use can be used on much smaller scales.
Menu of options and
Interventions….
Code:
1 – 1:1 Tuition after school
2 – 1:1 Tuition before school
3 – 1:1 Tuition during school
4 – Saturday School – Basic skills
5 – Saturday School – GT
6 – Saturday School - other
7 – Peer Mentoring
8 – ECAR
9 – BRP
10 – Inference
11 – Speech and Language – delivered in house
12 – PIT (Pulling It Together)
13 – Early literacy support
14 – Wider opportunities (music)
15 – SMCD opportunities (trips)
16 – Parental involvement/ coaching
17 – Summer School
18 – Homework / Coaching club (run by year 6)
19 – Basic skills intervention in school
20 – Counselling in school
21 – Teacher directed 1:1 time in school
The offer…..
In shaping the offer we looked closely at the
feedback given before the conference and
identified key priorities.
These have been identified as:
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Tracking PP pupils, using assessment data and Quality
First Teaching
 High impact interventions
 Promoting better parental engagement
 Non academic interventions including pupil motivation /
self esteem
 Small numbers of PP students in bigger/high performing
schools.
 Developing the role of the PP governor.
1:1 sessions
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Each school will have the opportunity to request half a
day of focused audit, discussion and action planning
around the use of PP money in their school.
These reviews will be led by:
Kevin Simpson – Ash Grove - Macclesfield
Caron Corden – Parkroyal - Macclesfield
Sandie Isherwood – Marlfields – Congleton
Jo Ashcroft – Wilmslow Grange – Wilmslow
Format of the reviews:
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look at standards and progress
 Current provision
 Current spending priorities
 Any issues around attendance and
punctuality
 At the end of the session the school will
have created a short, medium and long
term action plan.
Feedback from trials of these
sessions:
‘The process was very professionally carried out
and extremely useful’
 ‘I am more than happy to enthusiastically
endorse the process. Indeed, I have been doing
so already with anyone who will listen.’
 The Peer review you carried out with us made a
very positive contribution to our self-evaluation
and left us with clear action points for
development.
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Graham Hamilton – Lostock Hall
Hubs
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Hubs will be formed
 Hubs will be themed based (based on the needs of the school) and will
meet once every half term. The Pupil Premium Champion will be the
representative at these meetings.
 The themes may change / evolve over the year
 There will be a focus on innovation and action research – impact!
How will the hubs run? – Approximately 1 ½ hours
 Session 1 – Feedback from all members of the group
 Session 2 - New research and learning
 Session 3 – Individual action plans to run back at school
CPD
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We will run CPD sessions across the year linked to the key
priorities set by schools.
Ideas might include:
ECAR and literacy based interventions
Maths recovery
Good to Outstanding teaching and learning
Developing social and emotional competencies
Collaborative learning
TEEP
Raising aspirations
Feedback
If schools require more bespoke interventions these can be arranged at
additional costs.
Post Launch…
Hubs Created – meetings begin in next
few weeks.
 Approximately 40 1:1 Reviews requested.
 Feedback from evaluations was
overwhelmingly positive. Comments
included:
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“Really excited about getting started”
“A well thought out, planned project, which think
will have real impact.”