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Raising ambitions for Pupil Premium children

How can we move beyond ‘off-the-shelf’ strategies for Pupil Premium work in our classrooms? Sean Harris finds out how one primary school went about raising its pupils’ ambitions

When we speak of raising aspirations among disadvantaged pupils, it can be easy to fall into the clichés that too often govern weak Pupil Premium plans in schools.

Off-the-shelf strategies, costly revision packs for all or simply highlighting disadvantaged pupils on seating plans are well intentioned, but without a robust strategy behind them, such strategies fall into the Room 101 of ideas that are grasped by those with little understanding of what it means to raise ambition.

For one primary school in the North East, the idea of raising ambition simply is not good enough – they aim to embed it in everything they do.

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