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Pupil Premium Familiarisation Portal

Working in partnership with Frog, GL Assessment and King Edward VI Foundation, GSHA is offering access to the online Familiarisation Portal to help prepare Pupil Premium students for entrance tests for selective schools.


Over the past 3 years, the portal has been used by over 40 Grammar Schools around the country and is proven to make a significant contribution to the improvement and accessibility of the test materials for Pupil Premium students.

LEAD ORGANISATION

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In partnership with

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What is included in the portal?

Access to the portal is restricted to only Pupil Premium students and is designed as part of a school’s ‘familiarisation’ programme to support access to the entrance exams. The portal is designed to introduce the concepts and areas covered in the entrance exam and to enable students to become ‘familiar’ with them through explanatory videos and audio as well as practice questions and worked examples. It allows access as often as the student likes, on any device and provides approximately 10 hours of study to help prepare the student for the examination.   

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SITES

Sites are the foundation of Frog's portal and are used to deliver the educational content to the students. There are a range of pre-built sites which we refer to in the portal as ‘Lessons’. Each lesson is designed to cover a specific topic or element of the tests and the portal includes content for both FSCE and GL familiarisation. These lessons are flexible and can be shown/hidden depending on which exam entry the school follows AND which topics are relevant.

Lessons are self-paced, available on laptop, tablet or mobile via a modern internet
browser and can be revisited as many times as desired.

 

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QUIZZES

Many of the lessons contain quizzes. These quizzes are used for formative assessment to measure understanding within the materials – both as a baseline and as a consolidation exercise at the end of the learning materials.

Additionally, there are full practice papers in Lesson 7 based on sample questions and
questions 'in the style of' authentic 11+ examination papers which brings together the
concepts taught in the lessons.

The GSHA Familiarisation Portal contains a range of lessons relevant to both GL and FSCE assessment...

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LESSONS INCLUDE:

  1. Introduction and Familiarisation
  2. Non-Verbal Ability
  3. Verbal Reasoning
  4. English
  5. Maths
  6. Practice Tests
  7. Final Preparation

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LESSONS INCLUDE:

  1. Introduction and Familiarisation
  2. Non-Verbal Ability
  3. Comprehension
  4. Verbal Ability
  5. Maths
  6. Complex Non-Verbal Ability
  7. Practice Tests
  8. Final Preparation

Additional details: The FSCE materials have been provided by King Edward VI Foundation and have been used for the past three years with GSHA schools. The GL materials are provided directly by GL and were added for first use in 2021. Content can be removed if schools do not require all lessons.

License and costs

The licence includes the core licence purchased by GSHA for the provision of the portal, UK based hosting, backup and support PLUS the individual school costs.

ANNUAL FEE

£750 per school (includes x100 Student accounts).

  • Minimum three-year license (from Effective date).
  • Additional accounts can be purchased at a cost of £7.50 per student.
  • All costs are plus VAT.

Get in touch

If you would like to know more about getting access to the GSHA portal please fill in the form below...

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“We have a need to level the playing field in order that we can truly identify those with academic ability rather than social privilege. These familiarisation materials and analytical tools support the learner and our schools to really make a difference in creating a more equal society.”

Tim Harris, Headteacher
Colyton Grammar School

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“It’s a great way of helping to level the playing field for disadvantaged students by giving them access to familiarisation materials and it also demonstrates your school’s commitment to increasing the access for such students."

Pete Lawrence, Headteacher
Torquay Boys Grammar School