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Post by corkwing on Mar 27, 2015 8:38:45 GMT
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Post by rosie on Mar 27, 2015 15:32:52 GMT
Thanks for that link. very useful.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 19:48:35 GMT
Interesting read. Also interesting that quite a few of the adoptive parents were either teachers or working with children.
Pity there were no examples of PP being used on teen age children, they mainly gave examples of much younger children.
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Post by kstar on Mar 27, 2015 20:22:49 GMT
I was interested to see PP money being used for enrichment activities in one case, that's something I want to take up with Starlet's school, particularly in relation to her sensory seeking behaviour - she loves the school sports coordinator (full time,23 yr old recent sports graduate, male, good looking... Enough said lol) so ideally I would like to see her have access to some one to one time with him, even if it's only twenty minutes in the day. Time when she could do more adventurous gymnastics, climbing, running, jumping etc that they wouldn't attempt with a class of 29!
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Post by corkwing on Mar 28, 2015 6:32:12 GMT
And you could pop in to see him to check progress from time to time...
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Post by milly on Mar 28, 2015 7:10:48 GMT
Interesting read, although the nature of the document tends towards making it seem like the support has led to success in all cases (albeit only in the short term so far) which may not always be the case. Also a lot of the children are referred to as being academically bright which often won't be the case either. And a lot of the parents are teachers which I imagine offers support to a receptive school in itself (Well it worked for me with my child's primary - secondaries seem to rely on their own "expertise" more, in my experience and seem to have less leeway in some respects in terms of adapting what they can offer.)
Useful reference for ways of using pupil premium but it would be good to have included examples for older children.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 10:43:00 GMT
Agree with Milly, the inference being that if you get children help at a young age, they will have no problems when they are older/at secondary school which we know is not true as a lot of children who coped well at infants and junior school fall apart when the move on to secondary and they leave the more nurturing sheltered primary schools behind and have to cope with moving around from room to room for every subject and are expected to be more mature and responsible for themselves, hence us both saying it would have been better to have featured at least one case study of an older child receiving help at secondary level.
Like a lot of research/reference it was a bit selective IMO.
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Post by kstar on Mar 28, 2015 19:14:16 GMT
It's perhaps more useful for us as a lever with schools when they try to claim we can't ask for PP money to be spent on something specific. Or for a willing but clueless school like Starlet's with no real experience of adopted/ LAC children.
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Post by corkwing on Mar 29, 2015 15:41:32 GMT
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Post by sooz on Mar 29, 2015 20:44:32 GMT
Snoozs school have just issued me a voucher for £100.00. They will now issue one voucher per term and I get to decide (from a list) what to spend it on. Already spent part of it on a new after school club he wants to join! I can use the voucher for clubs, trips and even uniform.
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Post by mudlark on Jul 3, 2015 21:01:58 GMT
Lapwing struggles with the unstructured lunch hour and the school and I have just agreed to spend some of her PPP on a play worker who will be available to her during each lunch hour, the school also asked me to join them in interviewing for the post, so I feel happy that the person appointed will be able to do a good job. I have been very pleased ( and surprised) at the school's improved openness to how the PPP should be spent.
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Post by sooz on Jul 3, 2015 21:06:28 GMT
Fab mudlark....snoozs school did exactly this as he was struggling at unstructured times too.
The person they employed was trained in play buddies and helped him loads in learning how to play with other children.
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