Purple Ruler × Vanguard Learning Trust — A Shared Blueprint Provision

The ask in one minute · for the Head & SLT

Build on what already works at Ruislip — once, for the whole trust.

Ruislip High has spent this year proving the model: live, teacher-led lessons built on Ruislip's own schemes of work, for children who weren't accessing mainstream education. The next step isn't a new pilot — it's letting Vyners share the same provision, so groups fill, costs fall, and placement finally matches need.

students activated at Ruislip on Blueprint — Years 8 to 11 served

97%

of student lesson-feedback responses said they enjoyed the lesson (149 of 154)

984

live lessons delivered to Ruislip pupils to date

2 → 1

the trust's two secondaries — Ruislip & Vyners — on one shared Blueprint hub

Engagement figures from Purple Ruler ST2 lesson-feedback and delivery records for Ruislip High School. Attendance for an AP / EBSA cohort is a re-engagement journey, not a headline number — section “Why pool seats” explains how the shared model is designed to improve it.

Proven at Ruislip

A provision that fits the school, not the other way round.

Blueprint means Purple Ruler delivers your curriculum and your timetable online — live, by the same specialist teacher each week, for groups of up to six. It's the online version of Ruislip's own classroom, for the children who can't be in the room.

Core delivered across Years 8 to 11: Maths, Science and English Combined weekly — including a dedicated Year 11 GCSE group built around exam questions in Maths and English.
Demand has grown fast: delivery scaled from 16 lessons to 402 to 566 across the last three periods — 984 in total — as the school leaned in.
Quality is high when they're in the room: 149 of 154 feedback responses positive — children describe lessons as calm, focused and made for them.
Leaders stay in control: half-termly progress reports (praised by Ruislip), drop-in observations against our 24-point teaching rubric, and a clear safeguarding line to our DSL.
It's already a reference: other schools have been pointed to Ruislip to see how Blueprint runs day to day.

Ruislip lesson feedback

“Did the student enjoy the lesson?” — 154 responses

Enjoyed the lesson — 149

Did not — 5

Maths · Science · English
core subjects live every week

Source: ST2 student feedback, Ruislip High (154 records).

Live oversight · one trust, every child in view

The trust dashboard — and a switch to drill into each school.

A shared provision gives Vanguard one place to see lessons, attendance, engagement and assessment across both schools — then toggle into any single school for detail. Below is your live picture today, with Vyners ready to come online.

Vanguard Learning Trust

Both schools · consolidated view

984

Lessons delivered to date

Students activated

97%

Lessons enjoyed (student feedback)

Y8–11

Year groups served · incl. a Y11 GCSE group

Vyners School is part of Vanguard but has no Purple Ruler delivery yet. Under the shared hub it draws on the same pooled groups — so it can start at marginal cost without standing up its own provision. The dashboard below is its starting baseline: zero today, ready to fill.

Lessons delivered over time last three periods

Jan–Jul 25

402

Jul–Dec 25

566

Dec 25–Mar 26

Students by year group currently activated

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

GCSE

Core subject delivery recent lessons

Maths

English

Science

Attainment & assessment how progress is tracked

Year 11 lessons built around GCSE exam questions — every topic practised across many variations before the real paper.

Small-chunk testing tied to each module, with a recap week each term to lock in retention.

Half-termly progress reports to leaders, combining attendance, engagement and attainment.

Drop-in observations against the 24-point teaching rubric.

Live figures from Purple Ruler operational records for Ruislip High (delivery, ST2 feedback) and the most recent narrative progress report (attendance, shown below). Trust view currently reflects Ruislip; Vyners joins the same pooled groups. Attendance is reported per pupil each half-term — the shared model is designed to keep groups full and lift it further.

From the dashboard to the child · what leaders receive

Every child gets a narrative progress report — every half-term.

Behind every number on the dashboard is a real report for a real child — attendance subject-by-subject, curriculum coverage mapped to KS3 with ARE evidence, candid verbatim teacher observations (the good and the hard), and an overall progress narrative leaders can put straight in front of parents or panels. Below is an actual Ruislip report — pupil name redacted for data protection.

Narrative Progress Report — Ruislip High School (pupil name redacted)

A real Purple Ruler narrative progress report · pupil name redacted · open full size →

Independent assurance · Ofsted, October 2025

“Meets all the minimum standards” — with SEND named a significant strength.

Purple Ruler is a DfE-registered, Ofsted-accredited online education provider (URN 152279). Ofsted's October 2025 visit found we meet every standard across curriculum, teaching, welfare, safeguarding and leadership — and singled out our work with vulnerable, SEND and anxious learners.

All 8 standard areas met DfE URN 152279 · 000/1047 KCSIE & UK GDPR aligned

📄 Read the full Ofsted report →

A significant strength of Purple Ruler is the support staff provide for pupils with SEND… each pupil receives carefully tailored, individualised teaching. Staff help pupils to reignite their spark for learning.

Ofsted accreditation report, October 2025Online Education Accreditation Scheme

The core idea · why one shared Blueprint

Single-school groups can't be sized by need. Pooled groups can.

When one school fills its own groups, you're forced to mix very different children — EBSA, behaviour, medical, high-acuity SEND — into whatever group has space. Pooling six-seat groups across Ruislip and Vyners changes that maths entirely.

Groups built by need, not by which school you're in — a dedicated EBSA group, a behaviour group, a higher-acuity SEND group, KS3 and KS4 cohorts.
No empty seats: if Ruislip needs three seats one half-term, the other three aren't wasted — Vyners can use them, and the trust still gets full value.
Children move as needs change through the year, without losing their teacher or their place.
A better answer for parents and panels on exactly why each child was placed where they were.

The same six seats, used better

Illustrative — two half-filled single-school groups become one purposeful shared group.

It already works · The White Horse Federation

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

Tim James — SEND & Inclusion LeadThe White Horse Federation

A trust that pooled its provision — and made it 50–60% more cost-effective.

Last year The White Horse Federation moved to exactly this model with Purple Ruler: one trust-wide inclusion hub, seats pooled across schools, groups built by need. The result is the template for Vanguard.

50–60%

more cost-effective than separate, school-by-school delivery

60+

pupils supported across pooled cohorts

14+

differentiated groups with real-time oversight

“Belonging as intervention” — vulnerable learners attend together across schools and year groups, reducing stigma and rebuilding confidence, especially for EBSA.

Hear it first-hand

Tim James — SEND & Inclusion Lead, The White Horse Federation

Vanguard today · the starting position

One school proven, one ready to join.

Ruislip High School

URN 140748 · 1,283 pupils · live Purple Ruler partner

Current provisionBlueprint (live)

Students activated27 · Y8–Y10

Lessons delivered984

Lesson satisfaction97% positive

Role in the hubAnchor school

Vyners School

URN 137635 · 1,515 pupils · Ickenham · same trust

Current provisionNone yet

OpportunityShares pooled seats

Set-upMirrors Ruislip’s

Cost to startMarginal — shared

Role in the hubJoining school

Ruislip and Vyners are the two secondary schools within Vanguard Learning Trust — a six-school cross-phase trust in Hillingdon. A shared Blueprint hub across the two secondaries gives the trust one provision, one contract, one safeguarding line — and one place to see every child.

Commercials · trust-wide first, per-school underneath

Pay for seats, not schools.

Blueprint is charged at a flat £29.17 per hour per group, regardless of how many children are in it. Pool the groups across Ruislip and Vyners and that same hourly rate now covers both schools — the per-student cost falls as seats fill, and no seat is ever wasted.

at 6 students

£4.86

per student, per hour — a full pooled group

at 3 students

£9.72

per student, per hour

single-school risk

£29.17

per student, per hour if a group runs at 1 — what pooling prevents

Worked example — a shared KS3 + KS4 core block

Shared group	Subjects (1 hr/day)	Hrs/wk	Per week	Per 7-wk half-term	Per pupil / half-term (at 6)
KS3 pooled group ≤6 seats	English · Maths · Science	15	£437.55	£3,062.85	£510.48
KS4 pooled group ≤6 seats	English · Maths · Science	15	£437.55	£3,062.85	£510.48
Trust total — both groups, shared across Ruislip & Vyners			£875.10	£6,125.70	£510.48

Per-pupil figure is the half-term cost ÷ 6 at a full group — £510.48 per pupil per half-term, or about £72.93 per pupil per week for 15 hours of live core teaching (≈£4.86/hour). Fewer pupils means the per-pupil cost rises but the group cost is unchanged — which is precisely why pooling seats across both schools keeps every group full and the per-pupil price at its floor. Electives add at £29.17/hr; Compass 1:1 SEND and Distinction stretch plug in at the same rate.

The full toolkit · one continuum, the right tool per child

Blueprint is the spine. These plug in around it.

Blueprint your school, online

Live lessons on your scheme of work & timetable. Up to 6 per group. £29.17/hr per group. Five-day start. This is what Ruislip runs and what the shared hub is built on.

Academy full AP

Our ready-built curriculum for full non-attenders / EBSA, groups of 6 from across the country. From £139/wk part-time (15 hrs core) → £169 extended → £199 full-time.

Compass 1:1 SEND

One-to-one SEND-informed tutoring for a child whose group session can't fully meet their needs. Plugs in alongside Blueprint at £29.17/hr.

Distinction stretch

Group tutoring for high attainers who are under-stretched. Same six-seat format as Blueprint, for stretch content. £29.17/hr.

Optional Enhanced Mental Health support can be added to any model at £180/month per learner.

From yes to live · low-friction by design

How a shared Vanguard hub gets stood up.

Confirm the shape

Agree the starting groups by need (e.g. one shared KS3, one shared KS4) and which seats each school expects to use. Ruislip's existing set-up carries straight over.

Onboard Vyners onto the same provision

Vyners' schemes of work mapped in, safeguarding and data-sharing confirmed once, at trust level. Blueprint can start within five working days.

Pool the seats, place by need

Children from both schools placed into the group that fits them, free to move between groups as needs shift through the year.

One line of sight for the trust

Half-termly progress reports, attendance and engagement alerts, drop-in observations, and a single safeguarding line to our DSL — across both schools at once.

Ready to turn Ruislip's pilot into Vanguard's provision.

We can share this with the trust directly, or hand it to you to take into your Head and SLT meeting — whichever keeps it moving. A 30-minute call with SLT will cover safeguarding, curriculum fit and the starting group structure for September.

Book the SLT conversation →

📦 Commissioning & compliance pack → 📄 Ofsted report →

Ofsted-accredited · URN 152279

Purple Ruler · Ofsted-accredited online education · DfE URN 152279 / 000/1047
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Prepared for Vanguard Learning Trust — Ruislip High School & Vyners School. Engagement and delivery figures from Purple Ruler operational records; pricing per current Blueprint rate card. Commercials indicative and confirmed in a formal quote.

One shared Blueprint inclusion provision across Vanguard.