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09:00 – 09:45 |
Registration and refreshments |
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09:45 – 10:00 |
Chair’s introduction and welcome Fergus Crow, Programme Director- Education and Learning, National Children’s Bureau |
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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 |
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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 |
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10.50 – 11.00 |
Questions |
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Morning refreshments |
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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 |
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12:10 – 13:00 |
Streamed sessions |
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1B |
1C |
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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 |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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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 |
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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? |
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14:40 – 15:30 |
Streamed sessions |
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2A |
2B |
2C |
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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 |
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15:30 – 15:50 |
Afternoon refreshments |
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15:50 – 16:40 Streamed Sessions |
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3A |
3B |
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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 |
16:40 Close of conference