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The EEF Guide to the Pupil Premium | EEF
Our Guide to the Pupil Premium is a practical, step-by-step resource for developing and implementing an effective strategy.
It supports you to diagnose pupils’ needs, find evidence you can use, develop your strategy, and make sure it’s working.
The updated guide includes new videos from school leaders and a monitoring and reflection tool to help you stay on track.
How schools report spending their Pupil Premium funding | EEF
Our new analysis of over 1,000 Pupil Premium strategy statements found that:
- Literacy and English attainment, attendance, and wellbeing were the most commonly reported challenges for disadvantaged pupils.
- Attendance and general attainment were the challenges cited by more secondary schools, while social, emotional, and mental health and wellbeing was cited by more primary schools.
- Tuition, English and literacy interventions, and staff training were among the most commonly reported approaches.
- 93% of schools cited EEF evidence to support their spending plans. The Teaching and Learning Toolkit is the most frequently cited EEF evidence source, appearing in 81% of strategies
When reviewing your Pupil Premium strategy, evidence can help you identify programmes and approaches that are likely to address the needs you’ve identified for your pupils.
Our Promising Programmes are one source of evidence to consider. These are programmes that have previously shown meaningful, cost-effective improvements in pupil outcomes.
For example: a new evaluation of Mathematical Reasoning, developed by the University of Oxford, provides encouraging findings.
The programme helps Year 2 pupils think through mathematical problems and understand the relationships between numbers. Our evaluation of a recent large trial found that pupils taking part made an average of one month’s additional progress in maths compared with similar pupils in other schools. Pupils eligible for free school meals made an average of two months’ additional progress. The findings have a high security rating, giving us a high degree of confidence in the results.
Find out which programme might be able to help address the challenges your disadvantaged pupils face.
If you're reviewing your Pupil Premium strategy, our resources can help you move from identifying needs to selecting, implementing, and evaluating approaches.
- Teaching and Learning Toolkit: accessible summaries of evidence on approaches to improving learning – the resource most cited by other schools.
- Implementation guidance: support for putting evidence-informed approaches into practice.
- Guidance reports: practical recommendations across a range of areas including literacy, maths, attendance and behaviour.
- Phase hubs: find evidence, guidance and practical resources relevant to your phase.
- Education Endowment Foundation | EEF