Pupil Premium Reviews

WHAT IS A PUPIL PREMIUM REVIEW?

A pupil premium review looks at how your school is spending its pupil premium funding and the impact that this funding and your strategies have.

The purpose of the review is to improve your school’s pupil premium strategy, so that you spend the funding on approaches shown to be effective in improving the achievement of disadvantaged pupils.

The reviewer should be an independent and experienced leader.

DOES MY SCHOOL NEED A PUPIL PREMIUM REVIEW?

You can commission a review at any time if you want to improve your school’s pupil premium strategy.

All schools should consider whether they could benefit from the fresh perspective of an experienced school leader to help them try new approaches or improve current provision to help raise the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.

Ofsted will recommend that you commission a review if, as a result of a section 5 inspection, it identifies specific issues regarding the provision for disadvantaged pupils.

In some cases, the Department for Education, your local authority, your regional schools commissioner, or the organisation involved in running your school, academy or free school (for example, the trust or diocese) may recommend that you commission a review if there are concerns about the results of your disadvantaged pupils.

You should start the process of commissioning a review within 2 weeks of it being recommended and should aim to have the review completed within 8 weeks. If an Ofsted inspection report recommends the review, the monitoring inspector will expect it to be undertaken in a timely manner.

HOW DO I BOOK A PUPIL PREMIUM REVIEW?

Pupil Premium Reviews can take many forms and are tailored to the needs of the booking school.

A 1 and a half-day review involves data collection, interviewing of relevant staff and governors/trustees and the writing of a report with recommendations. A more intensive package can also be arranged which would additionally provide support with the implementation of the recommendations.

This review service is available to Primary and Secondary schools and Academies throughout England.