Best Practice

Pupil Premium: What strategies work best?

Since the Pupil Premium was introduced, debate has raged over how schools can use the funding effectively and efficiently. Christopher Woolfrey looks at some specific interventions and how three schools are spending their Pupil Premium allocations

The introduction of the Pupil Premium has created a wave of action-research, case studies and academic literature on approaches to narrowing the attainment gap. From early years interventions to extended hours booster classes, from collaborative groups to individualised feedback – school leaders are drawing on a dizzying and at times contradictory range of research. 

Some of the best of this work has been brought together in the toolkit developed by the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). 

This looks at 33 different types of intervention, summarising what research tells us about the impact on attainment and cost of each, along with an assessment of the strength of the evidence. 

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