I'm a governor at a primary school. It's a good school, in a deprived area, so we get quite a lot of pupil premium. I think the school spends this money on sensible things, but I don't know if we spend it on the best things. Our children make excellent progress, but a lot of them are starting from a low baseline (we have high SEN and high EAL in addition), so fewer children than I would like achieve the expected targets (although in line with national results).
How can we measure whether we are doing the right things? I've been to governor training on the subject which wasn't particularly helpful. I've also spent some time looking at the Sutton Trust toolkit, and our interventions are ones that rate highly as value for money - but there's a lot of stuff on the website about the variability of results depending on how things are implemented. And we've seen that in our own school - the same program done by two different people, in one case the children made progress, in the other they didn't.
We get a lot of money, but it's still finite, and doesn't go that far when you're mainly spending it on salaries. How do we spend it on the best things - and also show that we are spending it on the best things?
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phonicsgovernor · 26/01/2016 14:12
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