Designed to address sharp national targets, this comprehensive masterclass provides senior leaders with evidence-based intervention models to ensure Pupil Premium funding directly accelerates attainment and narrows the equity gap. Leaders will learn to audit their current spend, track multi-layered student data, and construct an impactful three-tier Pupil Premium strategy aligned with statutory regulatory standards.
Narrowing the disadvantage gap remains a central criterion within the ofsted inspection framework and a key target for governing bodies nationwide. Pursuant to the department for education mandates and evidence compiled by the education endowment foundation (eef), schools are required to implement a highly strategic, three-tiered approach that focuses on high-quality teaching, targeted academic support, and wider whole-school strategies. Simply allocating funding to isolated initiatives is insufficient; senior leadership teams must provide transparent, systematic data demonstrating robust value for money and measurable student outcomes. This intensive full-day masterclass deconstructs the architecture of effective disadvantage management.
Participants will examine how cognitive and non-cognitive drivers act as barriers to engagement and attainment for disadvantaged pupils, specially focusing on drivers affecting chronic absenteeism and lower classroom engagement. By linking data-driven interventions with robust internal auditing strategies, leaders will discover how to eradicate low-impact spend and implement evidence-based pedagogical models that deliver systemic results. The course enables leaders to evaluate impact dispassionately, creating an agility of strategy that protects the most vulnerable learners and secures long-term academic equity
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Headteachers, Deputy Headteachers, Assistant Headteachers, Pupil Premium Leads, Inclusion Directors, Chairs of Governors, and Finance Directors.
FACILITATOR
Steve Burnage is a fellow of the chartered college of teaching, a fellow of the royal society of arts and an experienced education consultant, inspector and author with over 35 years’ experience in effective teaching and school leadership.
Steve is an accredited leadership coach and mentor who leads regular training workshops on communication strategies for schools, multi-academy trusts, local authorities and international organisations as well as being the author of a number of virtual training workshops, webinars and videos on the topic for clients such as TES Global and Marshall Cavendish Publications.
