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Narrowing Gaps – Our Greatest Challenge One School’s Case Study

Alison Garner Principal Goffs School

VIP

Values Innovation Partnership

About Goffs

• Based in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
• Diverse population
• Majority are first generation university students
• 1300 pupils - approx 15% are Pupil Premium
• Continues on its journey of improvement

Our Pupil Premium Statistics

• 2014 Results – all key measures narrowed significantly and

were all SIG+ on Raiseonline

• East of England Winners for the Pupil Premium Awards 2014
• National Runners-Up for the Pupil Premium Awards 2014
• East of England Qualifiers for Pupil Premium Awards 2015
• DfE have filmed our work on Pupil Premium for 2015 Awards

Our Pupil Premium Vision

• We must do everything in our power to ensure

that our disadvantaged students leave with qualifications and skills allowing them to access the next stage of their education

• What is your school’s vision for disadvantaged

students in your school?

• Do all of your staff and Governors know this

vision and hear it every day?

Our Strategies to Raise Pupil Premium Achievement

The Theory

http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/toolkit-a-z/

How We Operate

• We ensure that those who are disadvantaged are not

highlighted as having differences to their peers

• Our philosophy as a school is that our targeting of

students is integrated within the whole school context

• Many students are unaware of their status as

disadvantaged students due to their inclusivity within a range of students that are targeted for intervention based on their ability, not their financial status

Dedicated SLT Position- Tom Sparks

Oversee & develop school QA systems incl:

• SLT- Middle Leader accountability systems
• Department Reviews and Standards
• Standards Audits/Learning Walks
• Work sampling

Stronger Management Systems:

• Venn – all Venn structures/systems
• Oversight of whole school RAPs and RMGs (RAP Management Groups) systems
• ISV related work
• Performance table implications and action required
• Raising Achievement budget
• Oversee Intervention Teams and programmes/budget
• Researching and establishing innovation/best practice to further raise and ensure sustained high achievement at KS4
• Coaching colleagues in delivering best practice, and associated exam outcomes, at Key Stage 4
• Linked to narrowing the gap, ensure a high profile for outcomes for vulnerable groups incl PP within the school, working

with stakeholders to identify best practice, any underachievement and to ensure focused and effective intervention

Pupil Premium at Goffs

• Significant focus in recent years – conscious effort from

leadership

• Key focus on narrowing the gaps
• Tom leads a dedicated PP team focused on IMPACT –

can we justify our expenditure – “so what?” culture

• Team meets fortnightly and includes the SENCO,

Associate Assistant Principal for KS3, the Head of Psychology and the Exams Officer

Setting up a Team

Ideally:

• led by your Raising Standards Leader
• Ideally SLT member so can access information about

budget/staffing levels etc

• Close cross-over with general raising achievement strategies
• SENCO on-board
• Invest in the team by having a timetabled fortnightly meeting

Can it be used as leadership opportunities for your staff?

Identify the Students

• Check the DfE website to ensure you have the right

students identified NB: This is updated on 31st March as funding runs through financial year

• How are you communicating this to the staff?
• Could all teachers confidently identify their PP

students?

• Think about Year 6 Summer School funding

Raise the Profile – Cultural Shift

• “War Room” in Staff Room – do all staff know who your Pupil

Premium students are?

• Integrated into school lesson plan pro forma
• Continuous messages about Pupil Premium
• Consistent agenda item at SLT/HoD link meetings
• Consistent agenda item at Raising Achievement meetings
• Fully integrated into our data tracking systems
• Communication with parents

Pupil Premium Raising Achievement Meetings

• Raising Achievement Meetings – fortnightly with

HoD Maths/HoD English/Year 11 DoL/SLT:

• What more can we do?
• Are we throwing the kitchen sink at them?
• No excuse culture
• Can be easily adapted to Primary Schools for KS2

SATS

Raising Achievement Strategies

• Parental meetings
• Governors meetings
• Beyond Study Leave
• Systematic planning of revision sessions and

intervention based on tracking

• Raising Achievement evenings

1-2-1 Strategies

• Peer Mentoring:
• use of Sixth Form
• Year 6 students
• university students
• Year 7 students working in feeder primaries
• Small group work teaching
• Form Time sessions – identify small groups
• Effective/focused use of TAs

Targeted Mentoring – Success Guarantors

• Selected students assigned a mentor on SLT:

– Competition amongst SLT – Meet with parents – Meet with student once a fortnight – Track progress against targets, not A*-C (progress is key)

• This has been so successful that it is being rolled out

across the school at all Key Stages

Raising Aspirations

• College trips
• Taster days at Sixth Form
• Enrichment activities –Young Enterprise etc
• University taster days
• Careers day(s)
• Connexions interviews

Youth Workers

• We have 2 Youth Workers who work with our

most vulnerable students

• Their relationship with students is completely

different to a teacher/student relationship

• Play a massive part in the school

External Agencies

• We have developed a strong working relationship with Pet

Xi

• External agency who will come in and do targeted booster

classes for 1 week

• Excellent for demonstrating progress and impact of Pupil

Premium Money

• bpinner@pet-xi.co.uk

What is Your School’s Tracking System?

• Is it set up for Pupil Premium?
• Does it, on a half termly basis, show you the gap

between Pupil Premium and non Pupil Premium students?

• Is the data for CWG and Predictions reliable? How

do you know?

• Does it show you the gaps?

Spreadsheet

Tracking data updated every half term

Anything can go on here:

• INSET Training
• Additional capacity, for example in Maths, leading to smaller group sizes
• Exam moderation and marking
• TA Support

Price List

This will be different for every school:

• Teacher 1:1 - £26
• Teacher 2:1 - £13
• Form Time Revision Class - £8/week
• Student Support - £6/hour
• Revision Sessions - £4/hour
• Youth Worker costs etc etc

Student A – Year 8: Spend to Date £1598

• Cost of PP Team - £75
• 6 weeks of form time Maths - £48
• CPD Training on outstanding learning - £15
• Working with external agency - £375
• Pet Xi 1 week Maths Booster - £530
• Pet Xi 1 week English Booster - £530
• End of Year assessments - £25

• Cost of PP Team - £75
• ATM Maths - £16
• External Speaker on Motivation £4
• Externally marked Mocks £55
• Connexions interview £25
• College visit £30
• Mock examinations £40
• CPD Training on outstanding learning £15
• 1-2-1 Maths tutoring £60
• Revision sessions inc BSL £300
• Pet XI Maths booster class £250
• Smaller class size in Science and Maths £450
• Past paper packs £40
• Student Support £30

Student B - Year 11: Spend to Date £1390

Governors

• Significant OFSTED focus
• Governors need to be fully informed about how

the school is spending their money

• Regular report to Governors’ Meeting
• In every termly Principal’s Report to Governors

Celebrating Success

Your team work phenomenally hard so take the time to celebrate success:

– drinks on a Friday – cards/postcards – recognition – saying thank you

Where to look for other ideas?

KS4 Qualifiers East of England

• Broadland High School
• Burnt Mill Academy Trust
• Clacton County High School
• Claydon High School
• Colne Community School and College
• Goffs School
• Hampton College
• Harris Academy Chafford Hundred
• Hockerill Anglo-European College
• Loreto College
• Parmiter's School
• Saint Joan of Arc Catholic School
• St Albans Girls' School
• St George's School
• The Chauncy School
• The Priory School

KS4 Qualifiers South East

KS4 Qualifiers South East

• Baylis Court School
• Charter Academy
• Dartford Grammar School for Girls
• Didcot Girls' School
• Epsom and Ewell High School
• Gordon's School
• Invicta Grammar School
• Saint George's Church of England School
• St Edmund's Catholic School
• St Paul's Catholic College
• The Cherwell School
• The Hazeley Academy
• Waddesdon Church of England School
• Wallingford School

What next for Goffs?

• We do not claim to have all the answers & are

always evolving our approach

• Our areas of focus for next year include:

– Parental engagement – Culture of home learning – Continuing to raise aspirations – Top performing students - how do we cater for the student already making outstanding progress?

Questions

• If time permits, I am happy to take questions
• Alternatively my email address is

aga@goffs.herts.sch.uk

• Tom Sparks, Assistant Principal & PP Lead, Goffs

tsp@goffs.herts.sch.uk