Podcasts about pupil premium

To celebrate the 100th edition of the SecEd Podcast this episode counts down our top 10 most popular podcasts of all time. Have you listened to them all? Launched in early 2020, the SecEd Podcast has been on air for five years and to mark episode 100 podcast co-hosts Pete Henshaw and Matt Bromley reveal our top 10 most listened to episodes – interspersed with clips and highlights from each one. Without giving the game away, themes include oracy education, senior and middle leadership, quality first teaching, classroom management, Pupil Premium, inclusion and SEN, and much, much more. Matt and Pete also pick out their own favourite episodes from the last five years. All these episodes and indeed all of our 100 episodes are available to listen back to via the SecEd website – www.sec-ed.co.uk/podcast – or via your streaming service of choice. Our thanks to you – the teachers and educators of the UK – for listening. Here's to the next 100 episodes!

In this podcast episode recorded before major parties released their manifestos, Curtis James and Carlie Goldsmith discuss their newly launched manifesto focused on transforming the education system to better support children from low-income families. With the general election approaching, they express concerns over the lack of national discussion on education policies. They highlight the need for comprehensive policy changes and share five key ideas from their manifesto, including prioritising free school meals in admissions, making school transport free, securing pupil premium funds for their intended purpose, increasing working class representation among teachers, and redesigning the education system as a whole. The episode calls for raising awareness and encouraging discussions on education in the run-up to the election.Introduction to the Podcast00:28 Launching a New Manifesto01:00 The State of Education in National Politics02:09 Addressing Child Poverty and Inequality03:50 The VAT Debate on Private Schools04:11 Teachers' Struggles and Welfare Needs05:33 Five Ideas in the Manifesto06:12 The Importance of Consistent Leadership in Education07:01 Historical Context and Current Challenges08:30 Polling and Public Concerns on Education09:32 Breaking the Wealth Barrier in EducationThe Manifesto ideas11:55 Free School Meals Priority Policy17:25 Transport Policy Changes26:32 Pupil Premium and School Funding30:48 Increasing Working-Class Representation in Teaching38:25 Redesigning the Education System43:38 Call to Action and ConclusionLinks:Read our manifesto: https://www.classdivide.co.uk/news/introducing-our-new-manifestoThe Sutton Trust: https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/fairer-school-admissions-could-you-be-the-change/Download social media graphics to share: access here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we discuss excellent Pupil Premium practice and offer practical tips and ideas for how schools and teachers can support their most disadvantaged pupils. We explore the causes of disadvantage and why the attainment gap between rich and poor has remained stubbornly large. We look at the tangible classroom consequences of disadvantage and what that means for teaching and learning. Specifically, we touch upon how we can improve the attendance of disadvantaged students as well as their language and vocabulary levels. We look at how we can ensure the funding benefits all pupils living in disadvantage – and not just those eligible for free school meals – and we explore the Pupil Premium interventions that tend to work best in most settings. We look at the common ingredients of an effective Pupil Premium strategy, including breaking down the five steps recommended by the EEF (diagnose pupil need, ensure strong evidence, implement, monitor, evaluate). We look at the role and responsibilities of the Pupil Premium coordinator in schools and the part that must be played by senior leaders and governors. And we also discuss how to prepare for an inspection of your Pupil Premium practice.

In this instalment, host Alex Quigley is joined by Kirsten Mould and expert guests including: Dr Rebecca Montacute, Head of Research and Policy, Sutton Trust Marc Rowland, Pupil Premium Adviser, Unity School's Partnership Gill Fearns, Director, Lancashire Research School They discuss how to support for pupils from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. For more on educational disadvantage and resources to support disadvantaged pupils: Contextual Admissions, Sutton Trust The COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study Elitist Britain, Sutton Trust The EEF Guide to the Pupil Premium, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) For quick and easy access to future episodes, search for 'Evidence into Action' in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts and make sure you subscribe there.

Between 2010 and 2015, David served in the UK's Coalition Government as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Schools Minister, and Cabinet Office Minister. Whilst Schools Minister he was responsible for policy areas including all capital and revenue funding, the Pupil Premium, accountability and policy on teachers and leadership.  Since 2015, David has been Chairman of the Education Policy Institute. In this episode we focus on narrowing the education gap between rich and poor and delve into various areas, including creating and communicating a strong evidence base, engaging with policymakers and the media, the possible introduction of Value Added Tax to independent schools, and quite a bit more. As someone who served as Schools Minister, David has key insight on how to engage with policymakers effectively and ensuring research reaches decision-makers at the right time. Translating and summarising complex research, and boiling it down to the policy impact, is actually not the challenging part. The bigger challenge is in ensuring policymakers take note of the research even when it doesn't align with their own views and, also, in ensuring research cuts right through policymakers' busy diaries and grabs their attention. Narrowing the education gap between rich and poor is one of David's key focus areas. He explains how in the UK we have some of the best universities in the world, but there is a tail of underachievement which is very long and highly associated with income and social class, which is the weakness of the UK education system. If we can close the gap between rich and poor we'd have an education system that would genuinely be one of the very best in the world. Thank you for downloading this episode of the Do One Better Podcast. Visit our Knowledge Hub at Lidji.org for information on 200+ case studies and interviews with remarkable leaders in philanthropy, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.   

In this episode, Toria talks to Anoara about metacognition and learns about what it is, what it isn't and how it can support teaching and learning in the classroom. Anoara is the author of Think!: Metacognition-powered Primary Teaching and is a primary practitioner of fifteen years and an experienced school leader of ten years. Anoara is qualified as a headteacher and is highly experienced at delivering inspiring workshops. She has implemented metacognitive strategies in two schools and has experience leading Year 6, History, English, curriculum, CPD, Pupil Premium, metacognition and attendance and punctuality and remote learning.As part of her initial degree course, she studied a module of neurology and became fascinated with how the brain works. When she qualified as a teacher, her interest in the uses of cognitive neuroscience grew.  Not only is she passionate about giving children the gift of reading but she is also passionate about women leading in education and well-being. She is a regional leader @WomenEdLondon, is on the steering group @HealthyToolkit and is a founding fellow of The Chartered College of Teaching.You can find her on Twitter: @anoara_aJoin in monthly chats @IMetacognition on the last Thursday of every month ( term time only) using the hashtag #Metacogchat.

In this episode, we are joined by Kerry Williams-Kendall. Kerry is the Vice Principal at Boothroyd Primary Academy in West Yorkshire. She is leading on Teaching and Learning, Curriculum and Pupil Premium as well as a staff governor. She is leading a  research forum for the focus trust and developing a CPF training model for the wider area. She has been in senior leadership since 2006 and worked in many schools a lead on many different subjects. She also wrote policies and procedures around issues such as fertility treatment and miscarriage while teaching, a subject she is very passionate about. In this episode we discussed Therapeutic animals in education and how they can have a beneficial impact on pupils, staff and parents. You can follow Kerry on Twitter at @Skyrish2011 You can also follow Boothroyd Primary Academy at @BoothroydAcadYou can follow me (Kat Cauchi) on Twitter at @ReallyschoolK

Support for ECTs #2What is the difference between personal and professional authority? How can we approach behaviour management with confidence?Karl Pupé is a qualified classroom teacher with 10 years' experience across the Primary, Secondary and Further Education sectors. Specialising in Behaviour Management, he worked as a Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs) Co-ordinator teaching students with severe Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties. Karl is also the author of “The Action Hero Teacher” & founder of the http://actionheroteacher.com & his blog was voted one of the "Top 10 Education Blogs" in the UK by market research companyThis episode originally appeared in 'Tiny Voice Talks' by Toria Bono.  For more support follow her on Twitter: @Toriaclaire or visit tinyvoicetalks.com 

Support for ECTs - episode 1What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? Why is it so important?  In this episode Natalie Wexler shares a wealth of insight into her book 'The Knowledge Gap: the hidden cause of America's broken education system - and how to fix it.'  In doing so we learn about the distinct parallels between the US and UK education systems when it comes to overcoming the 'achievement gap' that exists between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers.  We also discuss 'The Reading Wars', Knowledge vs. Skills and the important features of a knowledge building curriculum.Covering Dewey, Piaget, teacher training and more, we look at the impact of this approach for schools in the USA and UK and find out how pupils and teachers are re-discovering a love of education and the profession. (Credits: Natalie Wexler - www.nataliewexler.com, Scott Buckley - www.scottbuckley.com.au)

Tamsin Bellaby is a Lincolnshire based secondary teacher of Art Photography and recently Business Studies. Tamsin is obsessed with the power of transformative culture within schools. Until January she was the HoY11 and led on inclusion. Tamsin has recently started at a new school where she leads Pupil Premium and drives KS4 and KS5 achievement.

The Tes news team reflect on another busy week for the education world.

This episode looks at the impact the Pupil Premium has had over the last 10 years on closing the attainment gap. The panel discuss the causes of academic disadvantage and explore some solutions for schools, including tackling the vocabulary gap, improving quality first teaching, and putting in place targeted interventions and support. It features Debi Bailey, CEO of Newcastle East mixed MAT, Charlotte Bowyer, Pupil Premium Coordinator and Assistant Headteacher at King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, and Marc Rowland, Deputy Director of the National Education Trust & author of A Practical Guide to the Pupil Premium.

In this episode, Dr Caroline Creaby, Director of Sandringham Research School, interviews Marc Rowland, the UK's national authority of effective Pupil Premium provision.  In their discussion, they cover a whole host of important areas including what effective classroom practice looks like, changes in accountability reporting and striking a balance between in and out of class interventions.  Marc also offers helpful suggestions to teachers and school leaders about how to support disadvantaged students at the moment and on return to school.

Take a minute to listen to the trailer for Best Bets, the new podcast from Sandringham Research School. Subscribe and get Episode 1 about Pupil Premium with Marc Rowland on June 1st 2020.

In this SecEd Podcast, Matt Bromley interviews former headteacher, David Birch, about his work as part of the Forgotten Third Commission, which looked into how to improve the prospects of students who do not achieve at least a Grade 4 pass in GCSE English and maths. The fact that this represents about a third of 16-year-olds year-in, year-out is not an accident but the product of the system of comparable outcomes whereby the spread of GCSE grades is pegged to what cohorts of similar ability achieved in the past.  The Commission points out that young people who fall below this bar pay a high price and its report focused specifically on how we can do better for these students in respect of English, though many of its observations could also be applied to maths. David talks to Matt about each of the Commission’s findings and brings us up to date with the group’s work, including the recent creation of a Passport in English. The discussion also touches upon Pupil Premium practice, including the problems of an intervention-heavy approach ahead of a focus on the quality of teaching and learning and cultural capital and aspiration.

In this episode Natalie Wexler shares a wealth of insight into her book 'The Knowledge Gap: the hidden cause of America's broken education system - and how to fix it.'  In doing so we learn about the distinct parallels between the US and UK education systems when it comes to overcoming the 'achievement gap' that exists between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers.  We also discuss 'The Reading Wars', Knowledge vs. Skills and the important features of a knowledge building curriculum.Covering Dewey, Piaget, teacher training and more, we look at the impact of this approach for schools in the USA and UK and find out how pupils and teachers are re-discovering a love of education and the profession. (Credits: Natalie Wexler - www.nataliewexler.com, Scott Buckley - www.scottbuckley.com.au, Tom McGuire - tomandthebrassholes.com)

This week I am in conversation with Pupil Premium and vulnerable learners champion Marc Rowland. Marc is a Research School Director, an author and (he wouldn't admit this himself-he's way too modest) an expert on the use of the Pupil Premium. We discuss the history of PP, the enduring relationship between family income and school success. We look at how thinking on PP has shifted with the recent EEF guide and the new DfE guidance. Marc also confronts some popular myths and misconceptions and gives you some concrete advice to take and action in your schools. The questions discussed are: Talk about ‘updated guide to pupil premium ‘ The measure of a successful education system whether at local or national level should be how its disadvantaged pupils perform - is this measure being used? Are we making progress nationally on outcomes for disadvantaged pupils? Do we in discourse obsess on the gap? Imagine you are a listener who has just been appointed Pupil Premium lead , where should their journey of discovery start? What is your test and learn approach for new PP funding activities . Myths to discuss : Pupil premium funding must be spent on interventions I must attend courses to improve my knowledge of PP . Most disadvantaged pupils are culturally illiterate and disinterested so we need to take them on an engaging visit to a theme park / farm /ballet? Only eligible children can benefit from PP spending?All data is good data , in school attainment data by teacher is a good predictor of the gap? What are you working on at the moment? Where can listeners find out more ? Useful links: :https://researchschool.org.uk/rosendale/news/beware-of-the-matthew-effect/ https://researchschool.org.uk/news/pupil-premium/ https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/evidence-summaries/pupil-premium-guide/ https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability Podcast Pedagogy This week I am reading Curriculum- Athena versus the Machine. You may not agree with all of Martin's points but you will be stimulated by his arguments. This is a must read for all school leaders . Martin will be a guest on an upcoming show. TDT Section Maria is discussing CPD excellence hubs with Expert Adviser, Alex Beauchamp. Get Involved! This podcast is entitled 'talking to teachers' so I really would like to hear how you have used guests work to influence your practice in your classrooms. Send me a 1 minute clip from your phone to p3nay91@gmail.com and you can feature next week! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/naylorsnatter/message

In this Teachers’ Podcast episode, Claire meets with Becky Lambton, the present Commercial Director at iTCHYROBOT. Becky’s background and experience lies within strategic marketing; having graduated in marketing and spending several years in the commercial world honing her skills, she later joined iTCHYROBOT in 2014 where she was tasked with helping grow and develop the business. iTCHYROBOT’s main goal at this point was to help businesses improve their processes or efficiencies by utilising their websites to their fullest potential.   Becky notes that it was during this same year (2014) when iTCHYROBOT ended up working with their first school, subsequently creating their first school’s website. It was at this point where she experienced ‘a lightbulb moment’ and concluded that the benefits that businesses gained from improving their communications for commercial usage would also prove to be extremely beneficial to the educational sector.   Since iTCHYROBOT’s website, the company has grown massively and have gone on to develop a web platform on top of school websites in order to help improve overall efficiency in the school environment.       KEY TAKEAWAYS  Tips for schools: How to make your website stand out from others.  A school website should be reflective of the entire school, for example, the school’s values. Many existing school websites tend to be more template based, with the same, generic information located on the school’s home page. A school’s website is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate what makes it unique and should bring focus on the celebration that is happening ‘inside’ of it. Ultimately, it should be a ‘showcase’ or a ‘window to your school’; parents and the larger community may never get the opportunity to see the amazing things an insider does, so it is important to make these things apparent.  Statutory Publishing and the influence of this on websites.   When schools first started creating websites, it was purely done in order to publish statutory information (a checklist of regulations given to schools by the Department of Education). This includes a variety of things such as how Pupil Premium and Sport Premium Funding is spent, Governance Information, Curriculum Content and OFSTED reports. It is important that a school website is viewed more than just a means of publishing statutory documentation, and more as a platform in which schools can promote themselves. For example, by using the information from Statutory Publishing, things such as key quotes from OFSTED reports can be used to help promote a school and their values. Statutory Publishing, therefore, needs to ‘look exciting’ in order to encourage visitors on the website to ‘want to find out more.   Exciting developments for iTCHYROBOT and schools in the future.   iTCHYROBOT have set themselves an ambitious goal for the future; to be the sole solution for communication, engagement and compliance for schools in the UK and beyond. The reasoning for this specific goal is that currently, schools are using a variety of different applications, communication tools and platforms to meet a range of different needs. iTCHYROBOT aims to integrate these systems, where possible, in order to create a single solution on one single platform, thereby solving multiple needs all at once.  What this means for schools and staff workload.   A school website should almost act as a ‘bespoke service’ where it looks at how the school runs and how it communicates. By providing this, the workload of staff should also, hopefully, lighten. For example, instead of inputting the same information multiple times across different platforms, it can be uploaded once and then automatically outputted to where it needs to be shown. This can already be a particularly difficult thing within businesses and schools; by having the website act as a ‘central point within a school for all communications’ overall efficiency and communication should improve dramatically.  A school website is only as good as the content on it.  A school website needs to be a whole school approach where everybody is supporting it and views it with the same value, including senior leaders, teachers, pupils and parents. There are various elements to the running of a website and an emphasis on ‘shared responsibility’ is a necessity. This does not necessarily mean creating more work for staff members but emphasise that the website should be a central point where everybody will both contribute to and benefit from.  Experience with using iTCHYROBOT in the past is not needed. When starting out with a website with iTCHYROBOT, advise and support will be given. Web statistics is also something that is offered by iTCHYROBOT which tracks the number of hits on different pages on the website. For example, if the Statutory pages are the most frequently visited in a short span of time, there is even an opportunity to pre-empt visits from certain individuals. The use of statistics and ‘hits’ could also be used to encourage pupils to get involved with the website; pupils could be encouraged to run small campaigns to see who can get the most ‘hits’ on a page, which could even be integrated with the curriculum by linking it to statistics in Maths.  A school website should be used properly, effectively and bring real value.  iTCHYROBOT supports schools with advice, marketing and communication strategies (both internally and externally). It is noted how various elements on websites are often missed, e.g. the admission pages for perspective parents. Limited information is often a key issue which may deter potential new starters. Similarly, staff pages and vacancy options are often left out, which means school could lose out on key visitors such as potential new recruits.  Schools are moving ever closer towards a business model with the implementation of academies.  Learning from people from the business sector has never been more important due to the dramatic change in how schools are run. It is imperative that those in the education sector utilise the lessons from business professionals and experts. Ultimately, a school website is more than just complying with one market, it should serve a variety of different people where the information provided is useful to all visitors. Artificial intelligence, virtual schools and digitisation has enabled more people to access education in more ways than ever before so the information on a website should be both important and vital to visitors.    BEST MOMENTS  “In 2014, we worked with our first school and did our first school website, and something sort of, I don’t know, a light bulb sort of turned on and thought ‘well, we’re doing all of this to improve efficiencies and adding value and improving communications for commercials, this is really what the education sector and schools need to start doing as well.”  “Since our first website, we work now, grown massively and we have developed a web platform on top of the school website so schools can do the parents’ evening online, there’s lots of integration with management information systems, to improve efficiency in the school environment.”  “…for me, it’s all about making the school website reflective of your school. I think a lot of the school websites that we do see tend to be more template based, they’ve got the same things on the home page. I think a school website is a really good opportunity for you to celebrate why your school is unite, the difference in your school and it should be a celebration of everything inside the school...”  “…back when schools first started with school websites, it was purely for that purpose – to publish statutory information on the website… a checklist of regulations that have been given to schools by the DfE that they’ve got to publish on their websites…”  “…you do go onto a school website and it looks exactly like that statutory content, where for me, don’t just publish your OFSTED report, identify key quotes from your OFTSED report and say what OFSTED found unique about your school, again, to fit with your school values and that celebration of your school that you’re trying to portray on your school website…”  “…what we’re trying to achieve from our product is to enable people to enable something once and automatically output that information to where it needs to either be published or to be shown, to stop you from suffering.”  “…run a competition to see who can get the most hits on the school website, integrate curriculum within it, your maths curriculum, anything to look at statistics and analyse the usage of the website! Encourage them to sort of run little campaigns to try and encourage use and visits to the website.”   “…there’s a lot of talk about people leaving education, but education is still a fanatic industry… but there’s never anything on the school website either about how they support their staff. If you go on any business sites, there’s a careers section and it’s got… investors in people and the benefits and I never see anything like that. One of the key visitors that will come to your school website are potential new recruits…”  “A school website is more than just compliance for one market. You’ve got lots of different people looking at the website and you’ve got to have something that is going to be useful to them.”  “I always ask the question, well, ‘Do they know that it exists?’, ‘How do you communicate with them?’, ‘Do you tell them that you’re putting your newsletters on the website?’, ‘Is it easy to find?’, ‘Is your website easy to navigate?’.”   “If you’re going to use you’re website as a communication tool, first and foremost, is it on every single letter than your sending out to your parents?”  “To me, it’s all about those unsung heroes… I go into schools and obviously speak to them about their vision and values and thing like that, and they always a have a really nice story to tell… the teachers will take time off out of their own school holiday time to go into the school because some of the children still need that place to go and that support… inspiration wise, it’s those people who are making that difference.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  iTCHYROBOT:  https://www.itchyrobot.co.uk/  GOV.UK - Guidance for Statutory Publishing https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-maintained-schools-must-publish-online   The Teachers’ Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheTeachersPodcast/  Classroom Secrets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClassroomSecretsLimited/  Classroom Secrets website: https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/  LIFE/work balance campaign: https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/lifeworkbalance-and-wellbeing-in-education-campaign-2019/    ABOUT THE HOST  Claire Riley  Claire, alongside her husband Ed, is one of the directors of Classroom Secrets, a company she founded in 2013 and which provides outstanding differentiated resources for teachers, schools, parents and tutors worldwide.  Having worked for a number of years as a teacher in both Primary and Secondary education, and experiencing first-hand the difficulties teachers were facing finding appropriate high-quality resources for their lessons, Claire created Classroom Secrets with the aim of helping reduce the workload for all school staff.  Claire is a passionate believer in a LIFE/work balance for those who work in education citing the high percentage of teachers who leave or plan to leave their jobs each year. Since February 2019, Classroom Secrets has been running their LIFE/work balance campaign to highlight this concerning trend.  The Teachers’ Podcast is a series of interviews where Claire meets with a wide range of guests involved in the field of education. These podcasts provide exciting discussions and different perspectives and thoughts on a variety of themes which are both engaging and informative for anyone involved in education. 

On this episode of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, I spoke to Professor Becky Allen. Becky is Professor of Education at UCL Institute of Education. From 2014-2017 Becky took a period of leave from her academicContinue reading The post Becky Allen: Workload, happiness, expertise, progress, pupil premium appeared first on Mr Barton Maths Blog. No related posts.

This week Kate Atkins and Marc Rowland share their thoughts on the effective use of the Pupil Premium, which is very much in the news at the moment following Becky Allen's recent blog on the subject.

How do you increase the attainment of disadvantaged children? Poorer children consistently perform worse at school by not reaching higher grades at age 16, compared to richer children. There is broad agreement, across party lines that they require more money to help them succeed and reduce inequality. Therefore, schools in England adopted the pupil premium policy in 2011 where extra funding was attached to each child in receipt of free school meals. Professor of Education at University College London, Dr Rebecca Allen assesses how well the policy has been working. Producer: Nina Robinson Editor: Hugh Levinson

Welcome to Episode 15 of Staffroom Rambles, the weekly education podcast by Tom Rogers and Chris Mayoh. In this week's bumper episode we discuss Damian Hinds and Amanda Spielman's 'solutions' to the teacher workload issue, Donald Trump and arming teachers, performance-related pay, Pupil Premium funding, the Practical Pedagogies conference, Teachmeet History Icons, and the CBI's comments on rote learning in schools. Links to articles we discussed this week can be found here: BBC article about teacher workload: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-43345857 BBC article about Trump's idea to arm teachers: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43149694 The Practical Pedagogies conference: http://www.practicalpedagogies.net/ Teachmeet History Icons: https://www.tmhistoryicons.co.uk/ TES article about CBI and rote learning in schools: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/business-leaders-call-less-rote-learning-schools Subscribe on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/staffroom-rambles/id1147219815?mt=2 Subscribe via RSS here http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:203574483/sounds.rss You can get in touch with us via Twitter – we are @ staffroomramble, or @ RogersHistory and @ chrismayoh

In this first podcast Rosendale Primary School's headteacher Kate Atkins and their research lead, Marc Rowlands discuss Pupil Premium in the context of secondary schools, PRUs and hospital schools.

Join the TES team as, one week on from Britain's vote to leave the EU, we discuss what it means for schools. Also in this week's episode: the government's changes to teacher training, why millions of pounds in pupil premium funds are not being spent and what secondary schools are learning from primaries about how to manage the transition from Year 6 to Year 7.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today I spoke about the importance of raising the profile and awareness of carers. Fundamentally there is still a lack of understanding about the role of a carer and the support that is available especially for pensioners. I mentioned the fantastic local charities that we have including Carer Support Wiltshire, The Independent Living Centre and Fun For All. I also stressed my support to include young carers in the criteria for Pupil Premium. It is extremely hard to be a carer at any age but struggling to cope whilst trying to grow up and study must be unimaginably difficult and place a great deal of emotional pressure on young careers. The pupil premium aims to help level the playing field – it is time we made sure young carers are on the pitch too