- the educational landscape for refugee and asylum-seeking children in the UK and the distinct needs of learners who are refugees or asylum seekers
- how to get the start right and welcoming the learner and their family/carers
- why it is important to collate and share information about new arrivals
- how to promote academic and social inclusion

- getting students in and fuelled for the day; making pre-loved uniform work; boosting school engagement and motivation; upskilling and investing; and quality one-to-one time
- how each strategy works, barriers to overcome, and what has had the biggest impact at Rainham School for Girls

- the place of the Pupil Premium in Ofsted inspection
- how senior and middle leaders can prepare in the run up to a visit and what to do when you get the call
- how to present your school at its best during the inspection, and the kind of questions you can expect inspectors to ask

- a walk through the strategies used at Loughborough Primary in Brixton, including innovate approaches to contextual safeguarding and pastoral support; forensic tracking; and a systematic approach to reading that still allows for personalisation
- practical ideas and advice that can be adapted and adopted for your circumstances

- practical ideas to support Pupil Premium coordinators and senior leadership teams
- a model of leadership of Pupil Premium that has ensured lasting ‘buy in’ by staff and a whole school understanding of how Pupil Premium works
- examples of ways to celebrate successes, both of students and staff; and ways in which school leaders have fostered team spirit and a sense of purpose within the Pupil Premium team

- consider a tiered model of support and intervention for disadvantaged pupils across the four primary schools and two secondary schools of the NEAT Academy Trust in the North East of England. 
- The tiered model consists of quality first teaching approaches, targeted academic interventions, and wider strategies including family engagement. 
- The workshop will set out how this approach is implemented in practice, the different layers of support which are offered, how the schools ensure they understand the needs of each individual pupil, and what all this looks like in the Pupil Premium Strategy document.

- practical strategies to support the learning, attendance and progress of children living in care
- how schools might spend the Pupil Premium Plus funding that follows looked after children, including the crucial role of PEPs (Personal Education Plans)
- what makes an effective PEP, how these should be created, how to set learning targets, and the role of the designated teacher

- He will ask delegates who is our Pupil Premium plan really for and to what extent do we truly implement strategies that go beyond a superficial engagement with evidence?
- Do our teaching staff understanding the research around the physical, cognitive and emotional impacts that poverty and disadvantage can have on students and their learning?
- Do they actively incorporate this into their planning and teaching? And do our current plans consider the specificity of these needs through ‘active ingredients’ in implementing approaches to high quality teaching. 

- meeting the needs of Pupil Premium children who also have SEND
- how Pupil Premium funding can be used to meet the needs of children with SEND
- measuring progress for these children, working with their parents and carers, and reporting this work for Ofsted inspection

- Getting students in and fuelled for the day; 'poverty-proofing' the school; boosting school engagement and motivation; the school's ACE pastoral tutoring programme; and finding freebies to help their work!
- how each strategy works in practice, barriers to overcome, and the impact has had so far at Front Lawn Primary School

- Eton College works in collaboration with a number of state schools to design resources and provision which supports high quality teacher and wider pastoral interventions, especially for Pupil Premium students
- specific strategies to support high quality teaching and effective professional development for teaching staff
- wider strategies to address non-academic barriers including good school attendance, managing behaviour, and meeting pupils' social and emotional needs

- ideas to promote inclusion in the classroom and support vulnerable pupils, including Pupil Premium children, though the effective use of teaching assistants
- these include looking at models of teaching assistant deployment and the use of a ‘key person’ to build a team around the child; and an approach to differentiation based on small tweaks and adaptions within the classroom

- the processes and systems that help ensure successful progress, attainment, attendance, and behaviour for Pupil Premium pupils
- Specific topics will include Warrington Primary Academy Trust’s use of diagnostic tools; effective early intervention strategies; supporting pupils during points of transition; the use of data and tracking (Pupil Premium evaluation); and the team around the child