IRIS Connect finds Children Eligible For Pupil Premium Make Unprecedented Progress
(PRWEB UK) 9 April 2014 -- The Pupil Premium, worth £2.5 billion per year by 2014-15, provides school with an additional £900 per eligible student to focus on accelerating progress and narrowing the attainment gap. This government drive has placed schools under increased pressure to demonstrate progress for their less advantaged pupils.
Uniquely, Westfields Junior School are informing their use of the Sutton Trust Toolkit strategies by using secure video technology to help identify learning behaviours. Using IRIS Connect, the school has implemented three distinct layers of support and intervention targeted at the whole class, those eligible for Pupil Premium and the “stuck and stalled” learners.
The use of IRIS Connect video observations to inform Sutton Trust Toolkit strategies has helped teachers to identify individual barriers to learning and tailor interventions to a much finer degree than previously. This sophisticated, powerful programme has led to unprecedented results in progress of disadvantaged pupils at Westfields Junior School.
“At Westfields, we try to do whatever it takes to close the gap in children’s progress. IRIS Connect is invaluable in helping us determine why the gap is there in the first place and how to personalise interventions to close it in the most effective way.” Debbie Jones, Inclusion Manager.
Impact of the IRIS Connect informed interventions:
• Whilst the number of SEN students entering Westfields is growing, the overall number of students on their SEN register is falling as a result of targeted analysis and personalised learning interventions;
• In one year-group, children eligible for Pupil Premium made greater average progress in Writing and Maths and the same average progress in Reading as those not eligible;
• Students who had persistently failed to make progress are now seeing significant improvements in progress, as well as confidence, self-esteem and engagement in class.
Read the full case study to find out more about IRIS Connect informed learning interventions at Westfields Junior School and the subsequent impact on progress.
Notes to Editor
• IRIS Connect is a collaborative CPD tool that enables teachers to reflect on, analyse and share teaching practice.
• IRIS Connects mobile video technology and a secure web based platform were developed from research into "what works" to improve teaching and learning. It allows deep and objective self-reflection and peer observation; secure permission based sharing of practice; and more effective coaching and mentoring relationships.
• IRIS Connect believes in the collective capacity of teaching professionals to address the challenges they face. By providing appropriate facilitation and learning tools IRIS Connect increases the social capital within and between schools and empowers teachers to discover, develop and share effective teaching through meaningful collaboration.
• IRIS Connect works with over 675 schools and 19,500 teachers, building a network for teachers to securely discuss and share practice with their peers.
Rachel Finch, IRIS Connect, http://www.irisconnect.co.uk, +44 8453038578, [email protected]
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