— ONLINE ALTERNATIVE PROVISION & TUITION

When the classroom isn't working, we are the way back into learning.

Live, teacher-led lessons for the young people mainstream school cannot reach right now. The right teacher, at the right pace, online.

Refer a student

30+

local authorities

URN 152279

DfE registered

Ofsted

inspected

KS3–KS4

live teaching

"It would be foolish not to use it."

CHRIS CASSIDY · VICE PRINCIPAL, THE CENTRE SCHOOL

"We need new ways of reaching them."

BAL GILL · EDUCATION OFFICER, LB BARKING AND DAGENHAM

"The purpose of this work is to reach the students nobody else could."

TIM JAMES · SEND & INCLUSION LEAD, THE WHITE HORSE FEDERATION

— WHO WE ARE

Why Purple Ruler exists

Purple Ruler was started by teachers who kept watching the same pupils slip off the register and out of sight. We built a school without a building, so the young people mainstream school cannot reach are still taught live, by someone who knows their name.

The same teacher, every week

One teacher, one group, the same hour each week. For a pupil who has stopped trusting a timetable, that is the intervention, not the setting for one.

Optional interactive route

Microphone off is fine too, and taking part in the chat counts. Diagnostic Discovery in lesson one sets the pace, because online is different from the classroom they left.

Only our own staff, ever

Vetted, DBS-checked facilitators on approved platforms, and never a stranger in a lesson. A Designated Safeguarding Lead reads every concern herself.

You always know where the pupil is

A report every Friday in plain words, a termly review, and an annual summary. Written so the school can act on it, not so the file looks complete.

— IN THEIR WORDS

The people who commissioned us, and the young people it was for

A trust, a school and a local authority describing what changed, and students describing it in their own words.

The Commissioners

MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST

The purpose of this work is to reach the students nobody else could.’’

Alternative provision spread across multiple small providers, consolidated into one trust‑wide hub: one teaching standard, one safeguarding line, and reporting the central team can compare across schools.

Tim James, The White Horse Federation

SEND & Inclusion Lead · Multi-academy trust, South West England

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SCHOOL

Some of the biggest barriers to a young person engaging in education is their perception of their lack of safety, security and control. If you can create an environment that boosts all of those factors, it would be foolish not to use it.’’

One‑to‑one teaching for a pupil the classroom could not reach: two subjects became four, around 131 lessons at 83% attendance.

Chris Cassidy

Vice Principal, The Centre School, Cottenham