Supporting Pupil Premium Students with KS2 attainment
An initiative from Atom Learning, The Colyton Foundation and the South West Institute for Teaching
Atom Learning, The Colyton Foundation and SWIFT are working in partnership to provide completely free access to Atom Home for all Key Stage 2 pupil premium students in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset primary schools.
We understand the challenges that schools face in ensuring that all children, especially those experiencing disadvantage, have access to the best possible educational resources. This initiative is designed to provide that much-needed support, at no cost to your school.
Why have we set this initiative up?
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the South West are the least likely to go to university out of all regions in England. As a group, we are committed to improving outcomes for under-resourced children across the South West. By providing free access to Atom Home for pupil premium students, we aim to help reduce the attainment gap at Key Stage 2, setting children up for success in Key Stage 3 and beyond.
Atom’s vast range of resources and tailored support will enable pupils to build their confidence, strengthen their skills, and prepare for the transition to secondary education with the best possible foundation.
To access Atom Home for your pupil premium students, please fill in the form linked below. We'll be in touch with details on how to implement this at your school.
What is Atom Home?
Atom Home is an adaptive learning platform designed to support Key Stage 2 pupils in English, maths and science. With over 800 hours of high-quality video and text learning resources and a bank of more than 90,000 questions written by experienced teachers, Atom provides targeted support to help all learners thrive and prepare for KS3. Where relevant, Atom can also be used by children for exam preparation and familiarisation with verbal and non-verbal reasoning.
Atom Home provides a personalised learning experience. It identifies areas where each child needs the most improvement and adjusts the difficulty of tasks accordingly. It is fun and engaging, helping children stay motivated to learn and build confidence with Key Stage 2 learning objectives.
The partners
Atom Learning is an online learning and teaching company for Key Stages 2–3.
It has a range of products for families and schools to support with learning, exam preparation, teaching and assessment. Atom is used used by 120,000+ families and 1000+ schools across the UK.
Atom is passionate about using education as a tool for social mobility and provides its home learning product, Atom Home, free of charge to all pupil premium students.
The Colyton Foundation has been established to improve outcomes for under-resourced children across the South West.
Working in alliance with schools, MATs, and leading universities, the Foundation’s core aims are to deliver effective, aspiration-building programmes for children, support the development of teachers and schools, and deliver school improvement programmes.
Operating with a ‘cradle to career’ philosophy, The Colyton Foundation aims to raise attainment, and support children all the way through to university.
Colyton Grammar School and Kingsbridge School – Devon’s Teaching School Hubs – work together as part of SWIFT.
SWIFT’s vision is to create high-quality opportunities for staff to learn, develop and connect so that all children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, achieve the best educational outcomes.
SWIFT are passionate about enabling schools and Trusts to access the best of local, national and available evidence to support their own improvement journey.