Raise the Aspirations and Achievement of Deprived Pupils - Central London - Programme

09:00 – 09:45

Registration and refreshments

09:45 – 10:00

Chair’s introduction and welcome

Fergus Crow, Programme Director- Education and Learning, National Children’s Bureau 

10.00- 10:20

Keynote 1

Breaking the cycle of deprivation to prevent poor children from becoming poor adults

Rt Hon Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead

10:20 – 10:50

Keynote 2

What does the research say you should invest funding in to raise aspirations and achievement?

Professor Steve Higgins, School of Education, Durham University

10.50 – 11.00

Questions

11.00 – 11.30

Morning refreshments

11.30 – 12.10

Keynote 3

Case study: adopting a whole-school approach to raise the aspirations and attainment of socially deprived pupils - Challenges faced, strategies implemented and results

Jo Shuter, Headteacher, Quintin Kynaston School

12:10 – 13:00

Streamed sessions

1A

1B

1C

Pupil Premium: maximise its effectiveness in narrowing the achievement gap and practical strategies to track its efficiency

Dr Charlotte Carter-Wall,

Director, Transform Education Consultancy ltd

Creating personalised leaarning pathways that engage and challenge non-mainstream pupils by identifying their differing academic needs

Nick Parry

Virtual Headteacher, Accipio Learning

Acting early: gain intervention techniques to reduce the impact of social deprivation on academic progress

Chris Wellings

UK Education Policy Advisor, Save the Children

Primary Focus

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 14:30

Keynote 4

Family Working: Best practice methods to contact parents and engage them in their child’s education to help raise aspirations across the family unit

Dr Jo Lyons, Y2:L, SPJ Consultants Ltd

14.30- 14.40

Engaging the disengaged: delegate discussion

Discuss types of deprivation faced in your setting specifically: what are you doing to boost attainment- what’s working, what’s not?  

14:40 – 15:30

Streamed sessions

2A

2B

2C

Streamline inter-agency working to provide support that balances academic needs with a duty of care

Fergus Crow,

Programme Director - Education and Learning, National Children's Bureau

Raising self-esteem: boost pupil confidence to tackle anti-education attitudes brought about by a culture of low expectations

Nic Williams

Strategic Support Manager, Blue Bell Hill Primary School

Techniques to track progress,  demonstrate the learning targets hit by deprived pupils and develop systems of accountability

Steve Illingworth

Lead Teaching & Learning Consultant, Salford Children’s Services

15:30 – 15:50      

Afternoon refreshments

                             15:50 – 16:40                                   Streamed Sessions   

3A

3B

Motivating transient pupils and benchmarking their progress to secure positive engagement in the school community

Linda Dawson, Deputy Headteacher & Lucy Bickley, Assistant Headteacher, The Bemrose School

Methods to sustain one-to-one tuition, in the face of squeezed budgets, to improve individual learning outcomes

Alison Elkin, Secondary Literacy Consultant & One-to-One Lead, Salford Local Authority