Purple Ruler × Dixons Trinity Chapeltown
Inclusion Provision · 2026/27 Proposal

A consistent, cost-effective inclusion provision for next year.

A reset of our Blueprint partnership with Dixons Trinity Chapeltown — built around a schedule you can rely on, a model priced as keenly as possible for 2026/27, and a clear plan to do right by your most vulnerable learners.

Prepared forDixons Trinity Chapeltown
For the attention ofKam Plahe · Assistant Principal
Prepared byRoss Clements · Purple Ruler
DateJune 2026

Delivering live since 2016 · 100,000+ students across 33 countries · member of Stanford University's National Student Support Accelerator.

8 / 8
Ofsted minimum standards for online education — all met (Oct 2025)
£29.17
per group, per hour ex VAT — as little as £4.86 / pupil at six
1
locked, signed-off timetable — one source of truth, no surprise swaps
10-pt
Blueprint QA rubric — every lesson observed and scored live
Where we are — honestly

A reset, built on what this year taught us.

We've been your Blueprint provider this year, and we know it hasn't always run as smoothly as it should. The A/B-week timetable drifted more than once, lessons were missed, and the provision didn't do enough for your most vulnerable students. We've owned those issues, and the schedule is now back on track. This proposal is about making sure next year is consistent from day one — and genuinely worth it for the learners who need it most.

What you told us

The timetable wasn't reliable enough, and the provision hadn't supported your highest-need pupils the way you hoped when you moved to it full time. Fair feedback — and the starting point for this plan.

What we've fixed

The Week A / Week B schedule has been corrected and signed off with you. Going into 2026/27 we are putting controls around it so it stays correct, not just gets corrected.

What we're proposing

A locked, consistent Blueprint schedule, the most cost-effective model we can offer for next year, and a short working session to design it around your inclusion centre together.

Our commitment · a schedule you can rely on

From a moving timetable to one locked source of truth.

Consistency is the thing that matters most for your cohort — and it's the thing we're committing to fix structurally for next year.

This year

A timetable that drifted

  • Week A / Week B swaps that didn't apply correctly
  • Reversed weeks and phantom lessons at the wrong times
  • Missed sessions chased after the fact, via tickets
  • No single agreed source of truth for the schedule
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2026/27 commitment

One locked, signed-off schedule

  • A single Week A / Week B timetable, agreed and signed off before term
  • A named scheduling owner on our side as your point of contact
  • Change control — any change requested and confirmed in writing before it goes live, never silently swapped
  • A start-of-half-term schedule check so it stays correct, not just gets corrected
The provision · Blueprint (Category B)

Live teaching inside your inclusion centre.

Blueprint is live, teacher-led group teaching on your scheme of work and timetable — for the students in your inclusion centre who need to keep learning while they are supported back toward the mainstream classroom. Its North Star is behaviour and engagement.

Live instructionReal teachers, live every session — not recorded content or an AI tutor.
Bespoke & standards-matchedBuilt on your schemes of work and exam boards — not a generic course.
Qualified, vetted teachersExperienced subject teachers, KCSIE-safeguarding checked.
One teacher, the right groupThe same teacher for the whole cycle; grouped by gap, not by class, and reassessed as gaps close.
Matched by track recordWe assign the teacher our data shows succeeds with this profile, subject and gap.
QA'd live, not self-reportedLessons are observed and scored against our rubric by real people — see below.

The loop: we check mastery every lesson, reassess roughly every seven, regroup by live data, and feed each learner's progress back to your team within the week — so our work talks to your inclusion centre rather than running alongside it.

Quality assurance

Every Blueprint lesson scored against the rubric.

We don't self-report quality. Each lesson is observed live and scored on the Blueprint rubric — every metric rated 1 Inadequate, 2 Developing or 3 Established. It's how we hold our teachers to the standard your most vulnerable learners need.

Blueprint — Category B

North Star: behaviour & engagement · 10 metrics, 30 points max

1 · Differentiation & ARE
2 · Behaviour management (your own systems)
3 · Learner profiles & alignment
4 · Understanding checks (CCQs / ICQs)
5 · Engagement & interaction
6 · Lesson structure (6-step)
7 · Teacher energy & rapport
8 · Professionalism
9 · Low / no participation handling
10 · Student feedback report

Bands: 10–15 immediate support · 16–22 developing · 23–27 established · 28–30 exemplary.

What you see each half-term

A half-termly report per learner: an attainment view benchmarked to age-related expectations, plus a teacher narrative on engagement, behaviour and progress — written positively and evidence-led. It gives your inclusion team a clear, honest picture between reviews, not just at year-end.

Pupil-level detail stays inside your dashboard and reports — never on a shared document like this one.

As cost-effective as we can make it

The keenest model we can offer for 2026/27.

Blueprint is charged per group, not per pupil: one flat hourly rate covers up to six learners. The single biggest lever on cost is filling the seats — and, as part of Dixons Academies Trust, you have an extra lever most schools don't.

£4.86per pupil, per hour
when a group of six is full
(£29.17 per group / hour, ex VAT)

Three ways we keep it keen

1 · Fill the groups. The rate is fixed per slot, so every additional pupil in a group lowers the cost per head — from £9.72 each at two, to £4.86 each at six.

2 · Pool seats across the trust. A quiet seat at Chapeltown can flex to another Dixons school — the White Horse Federation runs this model trust-wide and it is 50–60% more cost-effective than separate per-school delivery.

3 · Lock this year's rate. Commit for 2026/27 now and we hold £29.17/hr ex VAT for the agreement term, ahead of the new-year uplift. Schools are not charged VAT.

Per-pupil cost falls as the group fills

Pupils in the groupCost per pupil, per hour (ex VAT)
2 pupils£14.59
3 pupils£9.72
4 pupils£7.29
5 pupils£5.83
6 pupils (full group)£4.86

Indicative; we'll model the exact weekly schedule and group sizes to your inclusion-centre numbers when we sit down.

Quality & the standard

Inspected, and proven at trust scale.

Purple Ruler meets all the minimum standards for online education across every section of its Ofsted monitoring (October 2025) — with support for pupils with SEND named a significant strength.

"A significant strength of Purple Ruler is the support staff provide for pupils with SEND… each pupil receives carefully tailored, individualised teaching… reignite their spark for learning." — Ofsted, October 2025

50–60%
more cost-effective trust-wide (White Horse Federation)
8 / 8
Ofsted standards met across all sections
2016
delivering live online since
NSSA
member, Stanford's National Student Support Accelerator

Reference trusts available on request, including the White Horse Federation, David Ross and Swale. A full commissioning & compliance pack and the latest Ofsted report are available on request.

The path forward

Let's design next year together.

Sit down for 30 minutes

A short working session with you to look at this year honestly, agree what good looks like for your inclusion centre, and shape the 2026/27 provision around it.

Agree the cohort, subjects & group sizes

We map the learners and subjects for next year, size the groups to keep cost per pupil low, and decide whether to pool any seats with other Dixons schools.

Lock the schedule & the rate

One Week A / Week B timetable, signed off with you, with a named scheduling owner and change control — and the £29.17/hr rate held for the agreement term.

One reporting standard

Half-termly reports per learner and a live dashboard, so your team always has a clear, current picture between reviews.

Let's talk

Can we grab 30 minutes to shape next year?

A short sit-down to get the schedule, the cohort and the cost right for 2026/27 — built around your inclusion centre.

Book a working session

Ross Clements · Purple Ruler · ross.c@purpleruler.com
+44 1227 913300 (UK) · +1 302 597 9251 (US)

Prepared for Dixons Trinity Chapeltown (Dixons Academies Trust) · Purple Ruler (Enlai International Ltd) · June 2026.
Pricing £29.17/hr ex VAT per group; per-pupil figures assume a full group of six. Rate held with a 2026/27 agreement, ahead of the new-year uplift. Indicative; final schedule and group sizes modelled with you. Schools are not charged VAT.