1. PEP Primary Network Group

2. Year 5-8 maths continuity programme

Run through work groups to address maths curriculum and pedagogical issues.

3. Mastering number across EYFS/KS1 to secure firm foundations for KS2

Focusing on fluency in calculation, confident and flexibility with number through progression in mathematical key knowledge and understanding.

4. Bespoke specialist visits to target schools in the sustaining mastery phase

5. Outreach STEM to schools delivered by UTC Portsmouth

Including curriculum support, delivery of STEM lessons, teacher training workshops and more. Students have an opportunity to be awarded a Gold, Silver and Bronze award for their work, which is earned through the student’s effort, the difficulty of the work and how long was spent on it.

UTC involve their students in the outreach work, enabling them to act as role models for self-efficacy and concept. A key thread running through all of these sessions will be focus on using maths to predict outcomes, stressing its importance.

There are four activities to choose from:

• A choice of nine curriculum-based workshops: hands on workshops (on-site or at UTC) designed to teach the national curriculum.
• Assemblies to hook, excite and inspire students, delivered at your school.
• UTC tours and STEM-based enrichment with a chance to experience CAD/3D printing and Green Screen and fun STEM enrichment, including Warhammer and robots.
• Lego Education through Spike and Mindstorm sets delivered to your classroom with a bespoke lesson, or you can book the UTC Lego room.

1. Targeted careers activities aimed at year 10 young people at risk of NEET

Delivered by the Careers and Progression team.

The programme utilises the innovative approaches and resources of the iCAN personal development programme alongside exciting VR technology. Sessions will initially aim to work on a 1-1 basis in the autumn term, developing into group work in the spring and summer terms, targeted at year 10 young people identified as being at risk of NEET.

These sessions are designed to support young people to identify their skills, realize their potential and build a plan for the future. As part of the programme, they will engage with employers and further education and maximise their opportunities. The programme supports young people to focus on improving their attendance with the longer term aim of reaching their goals.

Grants have been provided to support schools with the organisation, planning and extending of the NEET intervention. We will be holding two Q&A sessions via Microsoft Teams for leads to come along to discuss plans for utilising this funding and ask any questions.

2. Relational and restorative schools

Creating a relational and restorative school is a deliberate act of design that flows through structure, policies, procedures, and everyday interactions.

Relational practice describes a way of being, an underpinning ethos, which enables us to build and maintain healthy relationships. It provides a strong framework within which we can promote a whole-school ethos founded on the importance of relationships. This includes a range of approaches to managing conflict and tensions in a way that repairs harm and mends relationships if and when these relationships do break down.

3. School attendance team

To support and enhance the work of the school attendance team and improve key stage 2 and 4 outcomes, this arm of the attendance team will share information and work collaboratively with all schools within the Portsmouth LA in relation to overall, persistent and severe absence.

Using relational practice, the team will engage with and support schools systemically, thematically and on an individual pupil basis as necessary across a broad range of attendance-related interventions through both support and challenge, direct and indirect work.

1. Year 2: Supporting pupils with SEN in mainstream schools – Professional development group

This programme is a follow up to the ‘Supporting pupils with SEN in mainstream schools’ aimed at supporting the senior leaders and SENCos who attended year 1 to successfully implement change in their schools.

This programme will involve three face-to-face workshops and an individual or small group (depending on cohort size) online coaching session for each participant to supplement the workshops.

• The workshops will provide an opportunity for course participants to embed and consolidate their learning from year 1 of the project and develop their inquiry approach as a leader of SEND.
• The workshops will provide an opportunity for course participants to reflect on the knowledge, expertise and tools to use to lead change in relation to the distributed leadership of SEND.
• The individual/small group coaching session will provide personalised support with the implementation of action plans.

2. Teaching assistants in secondary schools CPD programme

This five-module programme will highlight and exemplify strategies from the EEF’s Making Best Use of TAs and SEN in Mainstream Schools’ guidance reports as well as Whole School SEND’s Teacher Handbook.

It will provide secondary school TAs with strategies to support students in the classroom, covering the following areas:

• The role of the teaching assistant
• Building an understanding of your students and their needs
• Creating a positive and supportive learning environment
• Supporting students to develop independent learning skills and manage their own learning
• Working effectively with teachers

3. Pupil premium network for PP leads new to the role

These three network meetings will be focused on meeting the needs of less experienced PP leads, supporting them to:

• Use a tiered approach to review our whole-school pupil premium strategies.
• Accurately identify key priorities within teaching and learning, targeted support and whole school strategies to tackle educational disadvantage in your context.
• Apply the principles of effective implementation to embed and sustain the processes, practices and programmes in your PP strategy.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of your strategy to adapt/sustain approaches moving forward according to pupil needs.

4. Pupil premium network for experienced PP leads

These three network meetings will provide the opportunity for more experienced PP leads to support each other by sharing good practice, as well as being kept up to date with new resources and research.

As a network we will support each other to:

• Use a tiered approach to review our whole-school pupil premium strategies.
• Accurately identify key priorities within teaching and learning, targeted support and whole school strategies to tackle educational disadvantage in your context.
• Apply the principles of effective implementation to embed and sustain the processes, practices and programmes in your PP strategy.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of your strategy to adapt/sustain approaches moving forward according to pupil needs.

5. Supporting pupils with SEN in the classroom

This six-module programme for classroom teachers will unpick the evidence and recommendations from the Education Endowment Foundation and Whole School SEND regarding strategies that teachers can use to support pupils with SEN in mainstream classrooms. The key messages from this programme will align closely with the ‘Making Best Use of TAs’, ‘SEN in mainstream schools’ leadership programmes, as well as the ‘Teaching Assistant CPD programme’.

Suitable for classroom teachers and middle leaders at both primary and secondary phase.

Now in its third year, the ‘Portsmouth: The Digital City’ project is now offered through Traded Services and will vary depending on your school’s chosen package and pathway.

For 2024/2025, these have been subsidised by the PEIA and participation grants may be available for Silver and Gold schools to work with Gemma and/or her team and to attend events and training up until the end of March 2025.

For more information about the SLAs available or to register for bespoke support, please email Gemma Gwilliam at [email protected].

There will still be termly events around the STEM subjects for pupils and network meetings for subject leads of science, computing and maths which will be communicated via the network channels and PEP bulletin.

There will also be ongoing CPD for digital and computing leads but again these will communicated via the network channels and PEP bulletin.