You already partner with us. The Academy model is the part of Purple Ruler you have not used yet: a full, live, online school for the pupils who are out of the classroom and at risk of falling out of education altogether.
Where Compass and Blueprint sit inside your own timetable, the Academy takes on the pupils you cannot keep in a classroom and gives them a complete, structured school day off-site. Live, teacher-led lessons in small groups, working to the national curriculum, with the routine and relationships that pull a child back into learning.
Every lesson is taught in real time by a qualified subject teacher. Groups are capped at six so no pupil hides at the back and every child is known.
Fifteen hours a week of English, Maths and Science, mapped to the national curriculum and to each pupil's stage, so a return to school carries no gap.
We carry the daily teaching, attendance follow-up and reporting, so your team can focus on the wraparound and the route back into school.
If a child is on roll but not in the room, the Academy is designed for exactly that gap, and helps you meet your duty to provide a suitable education for pupils who are out of school.
Anxious and school-avoidant pupils who need a low-pressure, predictable way back in, with cameras and mics optional until they settle.
Pupils out on exclusion or managed moves who still need to keep learning while their next placement is worked out.
Pupils unable to attend for health reasons who can access a full school day from home around their needs.
Persistent and severe absentees where the priority is simply getting them engaged and counted again.
A steady, repeating timetable across the three core subjects. The routine itself does much of the work: same teachers, same groups, same times, so attendance becomes a habit again.
Need more than core? The Academy can extend into a broader curriculum, with electives added, and an optional Enhanced Mental Health add-on. We scope that with you once the core provision is settled, so you only ever pay for what a pupil actually needs.
The Academy's North Star is attendance: did the child come back. Every lesson is observed and scored against ten quality metrics, each rated Inadequate, Developing or Established, so the teaching that brings pupils back is consistent and never left to chance.
Each lesson scored out of 30.
Indicative list price — your final rate is confirmed per school.
Choose two pupils, from any year group, who are out of school right now. We will run a free one-week trial with them in the Academy, share the feedback with you, and you decide from there.
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