Tracking the Pupil Premium cohort - or any specific set of students

[ICTLady]

Hi all

 

I'd be interested in hearing what you have in place to track your Pupil Premium kids (or, as I said above, any specific cohort who need detailed tracking).

 

We have mentors here in school and they need to able to access, easily (bearing in mind that they are not all very IT-savvy), tracking data on attendance, behaviour and current/predicted grades. Home page widgets give a snapshot of today's figures but we need both a series of up-to-date snapshots, and the ability to track progress in each of these areas.

 

I can run a set of reports each term giving their individual and group figures for each of those aspects for the term (one behaviour report, one lesson monitor report, one grades marksheet with totals), pulling all the figures together into one spreadsheet for each term's snapshot, and then collecting the figures for each term in one place so that we can see the trends from one term to the next.

 

It all seems a bit long-winded and clunky though. I am sure other schools across the country are tracking pupils with similar aims - just wondered how you do it?

 

[x-posted on the MIS forum as some of this is to do with the specifics of getting the information available through the MIS, but I'm interested in the data side of the solution - what are the most useful pieces of information, and what is the best way to make these available?]

[BKGarry]

We have trained people how to make discover groups for these target groups, well PP, FSM, Ethnicity, etc. And then we use User Defined Groups for Other ones which are not covered by discover, such as students targeted for each subject area.

 

Then the members of staff responsible have been trained on how to extract this information, some use discover as they like pretty graphs, the other use Assessment manager, to which there is a sheet for each year group that people filter down user the group filter. These include attendance on them, but people still have to run a SIMS report for behaviour details, or go into student details there.

 

I hope that helps

[gazskeltz]

Hi,

 

I agree with BKGarry - I also go one step further and add the Discover Groups to relevant templates (Tracking Templates, Subject Templates etc). I then add staff as Supervisors of the Discover Groups in SIMS so that they can see the marksheets in My Marksheet Entry.

 

This has the added value of these members of staff receiving a message the next morning whenever anyone joins or leaves the Discover Group(s).

 

Works very well here.

 

Regards

 

Gaz